NDcube Co., Ltd.note is a Japanese video game developer and a subsidiary of Nintendo. The original incarnation of the studio was founded in 2000 as a joint venture company between Nintendo and Dentsu, one of the largest advertising firms in Japan (hence the ND). After releasing a handful of games during its first three years, with the only one to avoid any form of No Export for You being F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, the studio went dormant for the remainder of the decade.
Towards the end of the 2000s, the studio was effectively restructured and rebooted with bevy of former Hudson Soft staff, with the first release of this new development team being 2010's Wii Party. NDcube] would also become a fully-owned subsidiary of Nintendo, who purchased all of Dentsu's stake in the developer. Ever since, [=NDcube is best known for developing an array of Party Game titles, most notably serving as the development studio for the Mario Party series from the ninth entry onwards.
Games developed/co-developed by NDcube
- F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (Game Boy Advance; 2001)
- EZ-Talk Shokyuuhen 1-6 (GBA; 2001)note
- Dokodemo Taikyoku Yakuman Advance (GBA; 2001)
- Card Party (GBA; 2002)note
- Pool Edge (GameCube; 2002)note
- Tube Slider (GameCube; 2003)note
- Wii Party (Wii; 2010)
- Wii Play: Motion (Wii; 2011)note
- Mario Party 9 (Wii; 2012)
- Wii Party U (Wii U; 2013)
- Mario Party: Island Tour (Nintendo 3DS; 2013)
- Mario Party 10 (Wii U; 2015)
- Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival (Wii U; 2015)note
- Mario Party: Star Rush (3DS; 2016)
- Mario Party: The Top 100 (3DS; 2017)
- Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (Android/iOS; 2017)note
- Super Mario Party (Nintendo Switch; 2018)
- Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Switch; 2020)
- Mario Party Superstars (Switch; 2021)
- Everybody 1-2-Switch! (Switch, 2023)note
