is a Japanese video game development company that develops games for video game consoles. It was formed on June 25, 2010 by key members of

Artoon Artoon Co., Ltd. (株式会社アートゥーン Kabushiki-Gaisha Ātūn) was a Japanese video game developer established in 1999. It became a subsidiary of AQ Interactive in May 2004 and became a wholly owned subsidiary in June 2005. The team w ...

, which was also founded by Executive Vice President

Naoto Ohshima (born February 26, 1964) is a Japanese video game designer and artist, best known for designing Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Eggman from Sega's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' franchise. Although Yuji Naka made a tech demo around which ''Sonic'' gameplay ...

, best known as the character designer of

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, as well as his nemesis

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. Arzest was also founded by key Artoon and

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members who worked on the '' Panzer Dragoon'' series.

Company profile

They were recruited by Nintendo to work on mini-games in '' Wii Play: Motion'' for the

Wii The Wii ( ) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released on November 19, 2006, in North America, and in December 2006 for most other regions of the world. It is Nintendo's fifth major home game console, f ...

. According to their portion of the credits of the game, as many as a dozen of former Artoon and

employees now work at Arzest. They worked on additional new features of one of the main

Nintendo 3DS The is a foldable dual-screen handheld game console produced by Nintendo. Announced in March 2010 as the successor to the Nintendo DS, the console was released originally on February 26, 2011 and went through various revisions in its lifetime, ...

built-in software applications '' StreetPass Mii Plaza'', such as adding SpotPass features to Puzzle Swap among others. Arzest has since released several retail games on the 3DS: '' Yoshi's New Island'' in 2014, '' Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games'' in 2016, and ''

Hey! Pikmin ''Hey! Pikmin'' is a 2017 platform video game developed by Arzest and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. A spin-off of the ''Pikmin'' series, it is the series' first installment on a handheld console. ''Hey! Pikmin'' was released worl ...

'' in 2017.

Games

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* {{Pikmin Privately held companies of Japan Video game companies of Japan Video game development companies Video game companies established in 2010 Japanese companies established in 2010 Companies based in Yokohama