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Sting is a relatively small Japanese company that provides phone services and enjoys making games with unusual systems or concepts. Shinichi Ito is one of their head designers. They've gained notoriety for remaking some of their more successful games over and over and over, but recently they've been branching out and have been producing more new games. Their company name is sometimes stylized as ST!NG.
Many of their games have cellphone minigame spinoffs that no one outside of Japan gets to play, as our cellphones just can't handle them yet.
Most of Sting's recent games have been published by Atlus, and in Atlus of Japan has signed a deal with them to be their exclusive publisher. Despite this, a lot of Sting's recent games have been suffering from No Export for You, as Atlus USA has chosen not to localize them.
As of 2012, Sting has formed a partnership with fellow company Idea Factory; games they make together will be released under the joint company name of Super Sting.
They are particularly known for their absolute love of Gratuitous English.
Sting's titles include the following:[]
- Treasure Hunter G, for the Super Famicom (1996)
- Baroque and its many spinoffs and remakes, originally for the Sega Saturn (1998)
- The Evolution series:
- Evolution: The World of Sacred Device, for the Sega Dreamcast (1999)
- Evolution 2: Far-Off Promise, for the Sega Dreamcast (1999)
- Evolution Worlds, for the Gamecube (2002)
- The Dept Heaven series, which will eventually include nine games (plus spinoffs):
- Riviera the Promised Land, made for the WSC (2002) and remade for the GBA (2004) and PSP (2006)
- Yggdra Union, made for the GBA (2006) and remade for the PSP (2008)
- Yggdra Unison, an Alternate Universe spinoff made for the cellphone (2007), which was then ported to the DS (2009)
- Blaze Union, a direct prequel to Yggdra Union, which was released in May for the PSP (2010)
- Gloria Union, a newly-announced Pirate-centric PSP game (June 2011)
- Knights in The Nightmare, made for the DS (2008) and remade for the PSP (2010)
- Gungnir, made for the PSP (May 2011)
- Dokapon Kingdom and its many spinoffs and remakes, originally for the Play Station 2 (2007)
- Hexyz Force, a new game developed for the PSP (2009) and released by Atlus in English May 2010.
Super Sting's titles include the following:[]
- Generation of Chaos VI, the latest fantasy RPG in one of Idea Factory's long-running series (PSP, June 2012)