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Disappearing Developers: Izuna Team and Summon Knight Teams Both MIA

First Cavia, makers of Nier and Drakengard, was absorbed into its parent company. Now, Ninja Studio and Flight-Plan have vanished from the internet. Ninja Studio created the Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja series on the DS, one of the few games in the roguelike RPG sub-genre. Izuna never gained mainstream critical success nor did it gain more than a cult following. Flight Plan brought us the Summon Night series and Eternal Poison, which also had a tepid reception and a cult status. The Summon Night series tended to be restricted to Japan with only three titles releasing internationally.

Back in May, Siliconera noticed the Ninja Studio site had went offline and speculated that they had quietly went out of business. More recently, the Flight-Plan site went offline as well, and it is now known that they have officially been shut down. The last game released from Ninja Studio was Tactics Layer, a DS cosplay Strategy RPG released last year, while Flight-Plan's last game was Summon Night Gran-These, a PS2 action RPG that came out in April. Both are exclusive to Japan.