Hudson Soft

Hudson Soft Company, Limited is a Japanese video game developer and publisher headquartered in Tokyo.

Starting life off as a computer game developer, Hudson grew into one of the most recognised video game developers in the world after having success with their Bomberman series. It collaborated with NEC to create the PC Engine console (TurboGrafx-16 in the west) - a direct competitor to Sega and their Sega Mega Drive, thus they released very few games for the 8-bit/16-bit Sega systems despite still producing a large quantity of games for the rival 8-bit/16-bit Nintendo systems. This changed when the TurboGrafx-16 was discontinued and the Sega Saturn arrived, with Hudson establishing itself as one of the most prolific Japanese third party companies of the console. They also produced several games for the Dreamcast and they even collaborated with Sonic Team to produce Sonic Shuffle.

In April 2005, Konami purchased a majority stock in Hudson. In 2010, Konami announced that they had made Hudson into a wholly owned subsidiary, taking effect 31 December 2010. A few weeks later, Hudson Entertainment, the American division of Hudson, was shut down, canceling all projects. Konami's future plans for Hudson are unknown.