Red Entertainment

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Red Entertainment
株式会社レッド・エンタテインメント
Industry Content planning and producing game software, animation, etc.
Founded 1976 (as the Red Company)
December 4, 2000 (as Red Entertainment)
Headquarters Suitengu Hokushin Bldg. 1-39-5, Nihonbashi-kakigaracho, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan
Key people
Ohji Hiroi
Products See product listing.
Revenue ¥105,969,632 (capital)
Owner Toyota Group
Website Red Entertainment Homepage (English)

Red Entertainment (株式会社レッド・エンタテインメント Kabushiki-gaisha Reddo Entateinmento) is a video game developer and publisher based in Japan. Formerly known as the Red Company (レッドカンパニー Reddo Kanpanī) since its foundation in 1976 (it did not start its business until 1985), it was reorganized under its current moniker on December 4, 2000. While Red Company as a public corporation dates back to the mid-1980s, the first title released under the Red Entertainment brand was Gungrave on July 17, 2002. The name "RED" comes from "Royal Emperor Dragon".[1] In 2011, the company was acquired by Chinese game developer UltiZen Games Limited.[2]

Partial game list

NEC Consoles

PC-Engine

Nintendo Consoles/Handhelds

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Nintendo GameCube

Wii

Nintendo DS

Nintendo 3DS

Sony PlayStation Consoles

PlayStation

PlayStation 2

PlayStation Portable

PlayStation 3

Microsoft Consoles

Xbox

Xbox 360

Sega Consoles

Mega-CD

Sega 32X

Sega Game Gear

Sega Saturn

Dreamcast

PC

Non-game productions

Aside from game productions, Red Entertainment also produced other things.

References

  1. 「REDってなぁに?」『アニメージュ』1990年1月号、徳間書店、p.36.
  2. 2011-03-11, UltiZen Games Acquires Red Entertainment, PR Newswire Asia

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