Gaming Startups

Wonder Squad is a game studio that develops warbot.io, a 3D robot action io-game supporting up to 100 simultaneous players with Free for All, Last One Standing, and offline Practice modes. The game is offered as a free-to-play title on iOS, Android, PC web browsers, and Facebook.

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ONE store operates a South Korean independent app marketplace for distributing mobile apps and games, offering developers lower commission rates and a web-based D2C payment platform. It also runs digital content platforms for web novels, webtoons, and eBooks, an advertising platform for developers, and a global one-build app market expanding to around 120 countries.

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TAKEONE develops a cinematic game genre that combines video storytelling with game mechanics, using video-branching and streaming technologies to create content-convergence products. The company aims to be a leading game and entertainment content company in Asia.

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Axelmark is a Japanese company formed through mergers of several firms, operating in content, mobile advertising, and social gaming businesses. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market and traces its origins to firms founded in the 1990s.

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Asobimo develops and operates smartphone MMORPGs and action RPGs, including titles such as Toram Online, Avabel Online, Iruna Online, and Eternal. The Japanese studio focuses on mobile online role-playing games and also offers a game BGM music app.

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Trys (formerly TriFort) is a Japanese creative studio that produces vertical-scroll web manga (webtoons) and develops games, including Web3 multiplayer titles. Its manga works are distributed on platforms such as LINE Manga and Piccoma.

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VSPO! (ぶいすぽっ！) is a Virtual esports Project featuring VTubers who stream, compete in esports tournaments, and produce media such as music, anime, and novels. It develops multimedia entertainment content across gaming and esports.

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XVERSE Technology develops large language models (including the long-context XVERSE-Long-256K) and 3D content generation and rendering technologies, offering products such as an AI interactive reading app and immersive 3D experiences for uses like virtual house viewing, tourism, and marketing. Based in Shenzhen, it provides AI and 3D technology services aimed at creating realistic 3D environments.

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Japan XR Center (株式会社日本XRセンター) plans, develops, and operates XR content, running business lines in XR attractions, XR training, licensing, and venue operations. The Tokyo-based company builds VR/AR entertainment and training experiences with an international XR team.

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Whomor (フーモア) provides creative production and content development services—centered on game creative assets, manga, licensed illustration, and webtoons—working with a network of over 13,000 internal and external creators. It serves corporate clients and also produces original webtoon titles distributed on platforms such as LINE Manga and honto.

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CellOrb operates the professional esports team "VARREL," which fields players and streamers competing in titles such as Street Fighter, Overwatch, and Tekken. The company manages and develops the careers of its esports players and streamers.

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D'Arts develops and operates "Hatchpot VR," a service that provides an environment for creators and companies to produce and distribute VR content, aiming to lower the barrier to entry into the VR industry. The company focuses on VR entertainment experiences for individual users.

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finn creates and produces original characters, handling licensing, merchandise design, and character-related content from social media to goods and events. The company also develops games built around its original IP and builds SaaS, business-support tools, and developer software for creators and companies.

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Japanese entertainment company operating a VTuber business and studio rental service, aiming to produce content for global audiences in the metaverse era. Based in Japan and founded in 2016.

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Siremo Inc. develops AI-driven consumer entertainment products, including Aily, a timeline-based AI social networking role-play game for iOS where users interact with worlds populated by AI characters. The company also produces AI anime and short-form video series featuring its AI characters.

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UNIVRS develops VR content using a proprietary, patent-pending locomotion technology that reduces VR motion sickness, enabling VR adaptations of commercial titles. It also builds VR-based services for enterprise clients.

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Acrodea provides AWS cloud infrastructure services, IT support, and develops IoT products and gaming applications. The company serves businesses requiring cloud architecture, maintenance, and IT consulting, as well as entertainment and lifestyle sectors through mobile apps and AR experiences.

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Edia Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company operating in IP (intellectual property) and publishing businesses, with clients including major platform and gaming companies such as Apple, Google, Nintendo, Valve, and Sony Interactive Entertainment. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard market (code 3935).

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C&R Group is a creative services and staffing company with 85,000 professionals serving clients across entertainment, gaming, web production, and related creative industries in Japan. The company operates through multiple divisions providing game development, video production, web services, consulting, and emerging technology solutions.

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Broccoli is a Japanese entertainment company that produces and manages intellectual properties including anime, games, trading card games, and merchandise across multiple franchises.

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5th Planet Games develops video games for players worldwide across multiple platforms, and has expanded into publishing and distribution spanning film, television, audio content, and merchandise.

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Adhoc Studio is a game developer that makes story-driven games featuring player choice and consequence. Its debut title, Dispatch, released in fall 2025, is a character-driven narrative game with player agency.

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ANB Media publishes news covering the tabletop games, toys, and entertainment products industry. The site reports on companies, personnel moves, and developments in the gaming and consumer products sector.

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Arcade Therapeutics develops game-based digital therapeutics (DTx) that use attention bias modification to treat mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and addiction. The app-based treatments are aimed at patients and delivered through partnerships with health systems and insurers, and the company is pursuing FDA discussions and clinical trials.

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