Wolf Team
Logo utilized under the Wolfteam name.
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Native name
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株式会社ナムコ テイルズスタジオ |
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| Industry | Video games industry |
| Fate | Merged with Bandai Namco Entertainment |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Defunct | April 1, 2011 |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
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Key people
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Eiji Kikuchi |
| Owner | Bandai Namco |
Namco Tales Studio Ltd. (株式会社ナムコ・テイルズスタジオ Kabushiki-gaisha Namuko Teiruzu Sutajio?), formerly known as Wolf Team ((株)ウルフチーム Urufu Chīmu?), was a Japanese video game development company founded in 1986. The company was renamed in 2003 when Telenet Japan sold part of its stake and made Namco the majority shareholder. Namco Tales Studio was originally the primary developer of the Tales RPG series, as it had been since the series' beginning. In November 2011, it was announced that the current Tales Studio would be dissolved and would merge with their publisher, Bandai Namco Games. In February 2012, it was announced that the 80 people of the Tales team would join Bandai Namco Studios.
Originally headed by Masahiro Akishino, Wolf Team became independent from Telenet in 1987, was reintegrated in 1990 and got merged with another Telenet subsidiary called Lasersoft, then was completely absorbed in an internal restructuring at Telenet in 1993 at which point most of the staff left together with Akishino.
The remaining staff were the then-very-young programmer Yoshiharu Gotanda, designer Masaki Norimoto, director Joe Asanuma, graphic artist Yoshiaki Inagaki, sound composer Motoi Sakuraba, and sound effect designer Ryota Furuya. Wolf Team went on to create games such as Sol-Feace and Hiouden: Mamono-tachi tono Chikai, which faced weak sales. For Tale Phantasia, a game concept by Gotanda, they looked for an outside publisher with a better reputation. After approaching Enix, Telenet struck a contract with Namco.
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