Aksys Games Localization, Inc. is a

video game publisher A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer. They often finance the development, sometimes by paying a video game developer ...

that specializes in translating and localizing Japanese video games for English-speaking markets. It was founded by Akibo Shieh in 2006. Some of its clients include

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, and

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USA. Aksys Games is best known for its involvement in the ''

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'' series, as well as for publishing numerous

otome game An is a story-based romance video game targeted towards women with a female protagonist as the player character. Generally one of the goals, besides the main story goal, is to develop a romantic relationship between the female main player char ...

s in English. It has become a full-fledged game publisher with the announcement of ''

Eagle Eye Golf ''Eagle Eye Golf'' is a golf video game developed by Telenet Japan for the PlayStation 2. It was originally released in Japan in 2005, as ''Enjoy Golf!'' The following year, it was published in the US and UK as ''Eagle Eye Golf''. It received "mi ...

'' for

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, and has expressed a desire to publish for all current platforms from Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony. The company's name is coincidentally similar to

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, with whom it has a partnership. Despite their similar names, and the partnership between them, neither company owns the other. Aksys Games publishes many games for Arc System Works in North America, and has even assisted the latter in releasing the ''

Bit.Trip ''Bit.Trip'', stylized BIT.TRIP, is a series of nine video games developed by Choice Provisions (or under their previous name Gaijin Games) and published by Aksys Games for the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft Windows, macOS, PS Vita, PS4, and PS5. ...

'' series in Japan. Aksys is also the North American distributor for the European publisher

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. In addition, Aksys localized Nihon Falcom's role-playing game Tokyo Xanadu for the American market in 2017.

Video games

Console games

PlayStation 2

PlayStation 3

PlayStation 4

Wii

Wii U

Nintendo Switch

Xbox 360

Xbox One

Portable games

Nintendo DS

Nintendo 3DS

PlayStation Portable

PlayStation Vita

iOS

PC games

Microsoft Windows

References

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