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.
Tomonobu Itagaki Tomonobu Itagaki (板垣 伴信 , Itagaki Tomonobu ) (born April 1, 1967) is a Japanese video game designer best known for creating the "Dead or Alive" series and also reviving the "Ninja Gaiden" franchise in 2004. Joining Tecmo in 1992, Itagaki produced two video game franchises that were commercial successes and earned him several promotions; he headed Tecmo's development team, Team Ninja, and sat on the executive board. He left the company after 16 years of service, filing a lawsuit against it for withholding bonus pay. His new team at Valhalla Game Studios, comprising other Team Ninja members, worked on a new game, "Devil's Third".