Shueisha Launches Shueisha Games Company

Publishing big Shueisha introduced in a press launch on Thursday, March 31, 2022, that it had launched a brand new wholly-owned affiliated model, Shueisha Video games on Feb 16, 2022.

The brand new firm will encourage collaboration between builders of smartphone video games with unique ideas and character designs from manga creators from Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Leap journal.

The primary 4 titles that might be launched beneath the model might be Oni by Kenei Design, Hatena no Tō -Tower of Kids- by Tasto Alpha, and Captain Velvet Meteor: The Leap+ Dimensions by Momo-pi Studio set to launch by the top of this yr whereas Ukiyo by Seaknot Studios is scheduled to launch in 2023. The developer additionally lists the Bleach: Kantōka Karuta recreation.

Together with the institution of Shueisha Video games, the corporate has unveiled a brand new brand and a teaser for the upcoming IPs.

It additionally teased a silhouette visible for a brand new recreation venture that it’s collectively collaborating with a serious firm exterior of Japan.

As well as, a second teaser reveals a aggressive multiplayer recreation that might be co-published with a serious Japanese writer and developed by a related Japanese developer. The corporate outlined it as a “multiplayer trick pace motion” recreation.

Shueisha Video games is actually an growth right into a full-fledged model of the Shueisha Recreation Creators CAMP’s recreation growth initiatives.

4000 builders have registered with the Recreation Creator CAMP and the variety of supported video games has handed 10, together with unannounced ones.

The model’s purpose is to mix the publishing business’s means to seek out and domesticate new expertise with the ability of the gaming business. Shueisha Video games goals to create new video games that haven’t been seen earlier than by combining these two components and taking up the problem of spreading them globally, particularly in Japan and different Asian international locations.

Supply: Shueisha Video games’ web site, Comedian Natalie, Twinfinite