Namco Tales Studio

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Namco Tales Studio Ltd.

Native name	株式会社ナムコテイルズスタジオ
Romanized name	Kabushiki gaisha Namuko Teiruzu Sutajio
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	1986; 38 years ago (1986)
Defunct	January 1, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-01-01)
Fate	Merged with Namco Bandai Games
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Eiji Kikuchi
Products	Tales series
Parent	Telenet Japan (1986—2003) Namco (2003—2006) Namco Bandai Games (2006—2011)
Website	namco-talesstudio.co.jp

Namco Tales Studio Ltd.^[a], formerly known as Wolf Team ((株)ウルフチーム, Urufu Chīmu), was a Japanese video game development company founded in 1986.^[1] The company was renamed in 2003 when Telenet Japan sold part of its stake and made Namco the majority shareholder. Namco Tales Studio was originally the primary developer of the Tales RPG series, as it had been since the series' beginning. In November 2011, it was announced that the current Tales Studio would be dissolved and would merge with their publisher, Namco Bandai Games.^[2][3] In February 2012, it was announced that the 80 people of the Tales team would join Bandai Namco Studios.^[4]

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