, abbreviation of

Hokkaido is the list of islands of Japan by area, second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own list of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō fr ...

Artists' Network and Development, is a Japanese

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. The company originally started as a service selling

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hardware and software to universities before the Mac platform was widely known. When competition in the field increased, h.a.n.d. reorganized to develop original software. h.a.n.d.'s earliest known game is ''Treasure Strike'', developed in collaboration with publisher, Kid, who released the PC follow-up to the Dreamcast original in 2004. The company consists of two other divisions—North Point Inc. for the development of mobile phone apps and other software, and S.N.S. Inc. who work on social games for Facebook and Mixi for external publishers.

List of games

References

External links

Official English site
Video game companies established in 1993 Video game companies of Japan Video game development companies Companies based in Sapporo Japanese companies established in 1993 {{Japan-videogame-company-stub