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Namco Tales Studio, Limited (株式会社ナムコ・テイルズスタジオ, Kabushiki-gaisha Namuko Teiruzu Sutajio?) is a Japanese video game development company founded in March 2003. Namco Tales Studio was originally called Wolfteam, but when their parent company Telenet Japan sold part of its stake in Wolfteam, and made Namco the majority shareholder, Namco renamed the company to help strengthen its brand. As the name would indicate, Namco Tales Studio continues to be the primary developer of the Tales RPG series, as they had been as Wolfteam since the series' beginning.
At the time of its renaming Namco owned 60% of this venture, Telenet Japan/Kazuyuki Fukushima retained 34%, and Tales series director Eiji Kikuchi received 6%. (Kikuchi, who was the head of Telenet's game development department for 10 years, left Telenet to head the new team full-time.) Effective on April 1, 2006, the then-newly merged Namco Bandai bought the remaining shares from Telenet Japan, cutting the last link to the developers' former employer and increasing its stockholding majority to 94%.
Namco Tales Studios remains the primary developer of the Tales series, with the exception of Tales of Legendia. Legendia was developed by an internal Namco development team called Team Melfes, featuring a unique battle system developed by some of the creators of the Soul Calibur series (also a Namco property), which is why it is so different from the others.
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