Koei Tecmo Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Japanese video game, amusement and anime holding company created in 2009 by the merger of Koei and Tecmo. The holding company itself, as well as its subsidiaries and divisions, were known as Tecmo Koei until the names were reversed to Koei Tecmo in 2014 without any change to the logo. Koei Tecmo Holdings owns many companies, the biggest one of them being is its flagship video game developer and publisher Koei Tecmo Games that was founded in 1978 as Koei. Since 2010, Koei Tecmo Games has been the owner of the previous Koei and Tecmo franchises, and occasionally used both brand names on new video games for marketing purposes until 2016. The company is best known for its Atelier, Dead or Alive, Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors, Fatal Frame, Monster Rancher, Ninja Gaiden, Nioh, Nobunaga's Ambition and Romance of the Three Kingdoms franchises. They are also known for its work on external video game franchises, namely on Square Enix's Final Fantasy and Intelligent Systems' Fire Emblem. Wikipedia