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AKI Corporation
Company typePublic
FoundedJune 19, 1995
HeadquartersTokyo, Japan
Key people
Yan Qiu (NA President)
Revenue10,000,000 yen (as of August 1st, 2004)
Number of employees
80 (as of August 1st, 2004)
Websitehttp://www.aki.co.jp/index_e.html

syn Sophia, Inc., formerly Aki Corporation, is an independent video game development studio located in Kichijōji, Tokyo, Japan. Founded on June 19, 1995, Aki is best known for their critically acclaimed wrestling games. The company went public in 1998.

In 2007-4-1, the company was renamed to syn Sophia, Inc.[citation needed] However, the American division was still named AKI USA, Inc.

Games developed under Aki Corporation

A version of WWF No Mercy for the Game Boy Color was in the works and planned for release alongside the Nintendo 64 version. The game was originally planned to utilize the Nintendo 64 Transfer Pak accessory to unlock special content in each version of the game. This feature was later scrapped, however, with the extra content in each version instead being unlocked via gameplay. After further developmental woes, the game was shifted to Natsume, developers of the previous WWF game for Game Boy Color, before finally being canceled in late December 2000. Screenshots of this game at one point existed, but the websites which had them up were forced to remove them following the game's cancellation.

A sequel to WWF No Mercy was in the early stages of development when it was shelved in early 2001 as Nintendo began to phase out the Nintendo 64 console.

A puzzle game spinoff of the Dreamcast game Animastar, titled Animastar Puzzle, was announced in early 2000 but was later cancelled, presumably due to the sudden demise of the Dreamcast console.

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