{"id":136909,"date":"2026-04-21T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-200149"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:45:00","slug":"toei-company-establishes-new-gaming-publishing-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/toei-company-establishes-new-gaming-publishing-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Toei Company Establishes New Gaming Publishing Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/eedfd4e373dcb\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/eedfd4e373dcb\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"eedfd4e373dcb\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Toei Games\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/eedfd4e373dcb\/toei-games.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/eedfd4e373dcb\/toei-games.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Toei Games\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Toei Games<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Toei Company, the Japanese juggernaut known primarily for its work in the film and television industry, <a href=\"https:\/\/prtimes.jp\/main\/html\/rd\/p\/000000002.000181841.html\">has announced<\/a> the establishment of a new gaming publishing brand: Toei Games.<\/p>\n<p>Originally founded in 1951, Toei Company describes the establishment as a &#8220;new challenge&#8221; and aims to release games first on Steam before expanding into consoles like the Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox.<\/p>\n<p>Its first game will be announced later this month on <strong>24th April<\/strong>, but don&#8217;t expect any familiarity with the title; Toei Company confirms that its initial line-up will not be based on existing IP, but will instead be entirely new, original games from creators in Japan and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/games.toei.co.jp\/\">official website<\/a> is now live, but is understandably quite bare at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Toei Company is also the majority shareholder in Toei Animation, which has produced significant franchises such as <strong>One Piece<\/strong>, <strong>Dragon Ball<\/strong>, <strong>Digimon<\/strong>, <strong>Yu-Gi-Oh<\/strong>, and more.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll keep an eye out for whatever this new game is on the 24th. Like we said, it&#8217;s unlikely to be confirmed for Switch \/ Switch 2 immediately, but we wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see a release later down the line.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:197146 @ 1776792265 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What do you make of this? Are you excited to see some original works from Toei Games, or would you rather it work on existing IP? Let us know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Toei Games Toei Company, the Japanese juggernaut known primarily for its work in the film and television industry, has announced the establishment of a new gaming publishing brand: Toei Games. Originally founded in 1951, Toei Company describes the establishment as a &#8220;new challenge&#8221; and aims to release games first on Steam before expanding into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}