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 Wolf Team ((株)ウルフチーム, Urufu Chīmu), is 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 continues to be the primary developer of the Tales RPG series, as they had been since the series' beginning.
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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 Wolf Team ((株)ウルフチーム, Urufu Chīmu), is 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 continues to be the primary developer of the Tales RPG series, as they had been since the series' beginning.
Originally headed by Masahiro Akishino, Wolfteam 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. Wolfteam went on...
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