PlatinumGames
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Native name
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プラチナゲームズ株式会社 |
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Romanized name
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Kabushikigaisha Purachina Gēmuzu |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Predecessor | Clover Studios |
| Founded | August 1, 2006 (as Seeds) |
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| Headquarters | Osaka, Japan |
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Key people
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Kenichi Sato (President and CEO) |
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Number of employees
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193 (2016) |
| Website | platinumgames |
PlatinumGames Inc. (株式会社プラチナゲームズ Kabushikigaisha Purachina Gēmuzu?) is a Japanese video game development company. The company was founded under the name Seeds, Inc. in August 2006 by Shinji Mikami, Atsushi Inaba, and Hideki Kamiya, former key members of Capcom's Clover Studio. The company merged with Tatsuya Minami's Odd Ltd. to form PlatinumGames in October 2007. A few years after this company was established, video game publisher Sega announced that it would be publishing four unique properties developed by PlatinumGames, including: MadWorld, Infinite Space, Bayonetta, and Vanquish. Their partnership later extended to include Anarchy Reigns. However, none of these were a commercial success, even though most of them received high critical praise.
While the company's core goal is to create new and original intellectual property, the team shifted to create more licensed titles. Starting in the 2010s, the company developed Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for Konami. The company also partnered with Activision to create licensed titles based on the The Legend of Korra, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Transformers franchises, and with Nintendo on The Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, and Star Fox Zero. The company is currently working on Nier: Automata for Square Enix.
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