Mages is a Japanese video game developer, record label and publisher founded on April 6, 2005 and is currently owned by COLOPL.
5pb. Inc.[]
2005–2011[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
Impact
Launched:
2005
With slogan
Alternate version
Mages[]
2011–present[]
2011–2020[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
Unknown
Launched:
2011
In 2011, 5pb. Games, 5pb. Records, and several other companies formed into a company called Mages, Inc. In 2013, Dwango acquired the company.
2020–present[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
Unknown
Launched:
2020
In 2019, Chiyomaru Studio, a copyright holding company for properties including the Science Adventure series, bought Mages from Dwango, though the Science Adventure series would still be published overseas by fellow Dwango subsidiary Spike Chunsoft. In March of 2020, it was sold to mobile game developer/publisher COLOPL. Around this time, the logo was partially modified, in which the period was removed, and the tip of the "M" was made more geometric.
Notes 1Video game assets moved to Kadokawa Games in 2011. 2Merged into ASCII Media Works. 3Absorbed into Dwango. 4Acquired by its founder's copyright holding company, then sold to COLOPL. 5Merged with Chunsoft into Spike Chunsoft. 6Certain assets spun off into independent company Dragami Games.
