Namco Tales Studio

A joint venture by Namco and Telenet Japan, Namco Tales Studio was founded in March 2003 and is dedicated entirely to creating Tales games. The first tales game to be released by Namco Tales Studio was Tales of Symphonia, which was a great sucess both in Japan and elsewhere. Since then, Namco Tales Studio has become the main developer of the games in the Tales series.

Namco owns 60% of this venture, while Telenet Japan owns 34%, and Tales series director Eiji Kikuchi owns 6%.