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.
Atooi (company) Atooi LLC is a video game development company that was founded in 2015 by Renegade Kid co-founder Jools Watsham. He founded the company as a side project for the development of games for mobile devices. The first game of the studio was "Totes the Goat", which released for iOS in late 2015. After Renegade Kid's closure, Watsham decided to use Atooi for the development of not only mobile games, but also games for consoles. Atooi got ownership of Renegade Kid's 2D IP, including "Mutant Mudds", "Xeodrifter", "Bomb Monkey" and "Treasurenauts". Atooi's most recent game, the platformer "Chicken Wiggle", was digitally released in 2017 for the Nintendo 3DS and iOS devices.