Tokyo-based Silicon Studio has quietly filed an application for an IPO and today announced it got accepted by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Silicon Studio is planning to get listed on February 23. If everything goes according to plan, it will be the first IPO of a gaming company in Japan this year.
Mizuho Shouken is the underwriter. More details haven’t been announced at this point.
Silicon Studio is everything but a newcomer: established in 2000, the developer now counts around 300 employees in offices in Japan and Thailand. Clients and partners won over the years include the likes of Square Enix, Sega, Pixar, Microsoft, DeNA, Sony, and others.
The company focuses on two key areas: game engines and middleware development for games and other applications as well as content, a combination that makes it stand out of the crowd of the plethora of “pure” game providers on the Japanese market.
Apart from console games, it has produced (pretty great) mobile apps that are also available in English, i.e. Age Of Ishtaria or Fantasica (many more in Japanese only).
Details can be found on Silicon Studio’s rather extensive English homepage.
