Who currently owns the video game development company that co-developed Xenosaga: Pied Piper, along side Namco Mobile and Tom Create?
Monolith Soft Monolith Soft, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社モノリスソフト , Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Monorisu Sofuto ) is a Japanese video game development company. It was originally owned by Namco (later Namco Bandai) and currently owned by Nintendo. The company was founded in 1999 by Tetsuya Takahashi with the support and cooperation of Masaya Nakamura, the founder of Namco in order to develop the "Xenosaga" series, a spiritual successor to the Square-developed "Xenogears". Multiple Square staff would join Takahashi at Monolith Soft including Hirohide Sugiura and Yasuyuki Honne.
King (company) King Digital Entertainment plc, doing business as King, is a social games development company. King develops games for the web, for mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Phone), Facebook, and Windows 10. King gained fame after releasing the cross-platform title "Candy Crush Saga" in 2012, considered the first successful game utilizing the freemium model. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard in February 2016 for $5.9 billion, and operates as its own entity within that company.