Artoon

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Artoon is a computer and video game third-party developer established in 1999. The team is primarily affiliated in the United States with recent and current Microsoft Xbox and Xbox 360 projects, although they have also worked with Hudson Soft and Nintendo on other platforms. Key Artoon personnel include Yoji Ishii, Manabu Kusunoki, Hidetoshi Takeshita, Yutaka Sugano, and Naoto Ōshima. When the company formed, it drew personnel and talent from several of Sega's development teams, particularly those which worked on Sonic the Hedgehog (created by Ōshima), and Panzer Dragoon. Currently, the developer has approximately 85 employees.

Artoon is currently situated in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. A secondary studio is maintained in Naha, Okinawa prefecture, Japan

[edit] Games developed by Artoon

• Game Boy Advance
  • Ghost Trap
  • Pinobee: Wings of Adventure
  • Pinobee and Phoebe
  • Yoshi Topsy Turvy
  • The King of Fighters EX: Neo-Blood

• Nintendo DS
  • Away: Shuffle Dungeon (for Mistwalker)
  • Yoshi's Island DS

• PlayStation
  • Pinobee

• PlayStation 2
  • Ghost Vibration
  • Swords of Yi | Swords of Destiny

• PlayStation 3
  • Rain (aka Vampire Rain)

• Xbox
  • Blinx: The Time Sweeper
  • Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space

• Xbox 360
  • Blue Dragon (for Mistwalker)
  • Blinx 3
  • Rain (aka Vampire Rain)

[edit] External links

• Artoon's official website