Game Freak absorbed Core Games, a mobile game developer, in October 2015; Core Games was dissolved

How it’s built

1. Reported by gamebiz, a Japanese games-business site, from a merger notice in Japan’s official gazette dated 27 October 2015.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

The merger came just after the year to March 2015, so Game Freak’s 2015 accounts predate it. Its financial effect is not disclosed.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

コアゲームスは解散する。 (Game Freak absorbed Core Games per 官報 merger notice dated 2015-10-27)

Where it’s used

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