Game Designers Studio, The
Moby ID: 4547
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The Game Designers Studio is a subsidiary company of Square Enix Co., Ltd., created because Square had an exclusive deal with Sony. To produce a game for Nintendo's GameCube, they founded this studio with a 49% share owned by Square Enix and the remaining stock (with a marginal majority) owned by Akitoshi Kawazu, thereby escaping the Sony deal without legal issues and taking advantage of Nintendo's Q fund for "new" game developers. Since GDS functions only as a front-end, actual games development is handled by Square's 2nd development division.
The company has since been turned into a consolidated subsidiary of Square Enix, changing its name into SQEX. Upon Square Enix's merger with Taito, the actual merger was performed between this subsidiary and Taito. SQEX once more changed its name, this time to Taito Corporation, taking over all of the old Taito Corporation's business.
Credited on 2 Games from 2003 to 2020
| Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles - Remastered Edition (2020 on iPhone, Android, iPad...) |
| Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (2003 on GameCube) |
History +
- March 31, 2006
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SQEX merges with Taito, taking over Taito's business and name.
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 1 game with CRI Middleware Co., Ltd.
- 1 game with Square Enix Co., Ltd.
- 1 game with Nintendo of America Inc.
- 1 game with Nintendo UK
- 1 game with Nintendo Benelux B.V.
- 1 game with Nintendo Ibérica S.A.
- 1 game with Nintendo of Europe GmbH
- 1 game with Nintendo France SARL
- 1 game with Nintendo Italia
- 1 game with Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- 2 games with Yukihiro Shibuya
- 2 games with Masahiro Kataoka
- 2 games with Donna Burke
- 2 games with Hidenori Iwasaki
- 2 games with Yuko Tomizawa
- 2 games with Kumi Tanioka
- 2 games with Kenzo Kanzaki
- 2 games with Toshiyuki Itahana
- 2 games with Sebastian Ohsan Berthelsen
- 2 games with Makoto Ise
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