BEYOND, a social game and smartphone app planning and development company BeyOND Forms Capital and Business Alliance with Amazing Inc. for Planning and Development of Social Games and Smartphone Apps

BEYOND Co. (Headquarters: Naniwa-ku, Osaka; President: Masahiro Haraoka; hereafter "BEYOND"), a provider of cloud/server services, has entered into a capital and business alliance with Amazing Inc. (President: Katsumi Marunaga, hereinafter "Amazing"), a company that plans, develops and operates social games and smartphone applications. The two companies will work to create new businesses by combining Amazing's expertise in game content creation and operation with BEYOND's expertise in cloud and server-side development.

Capital and Business Alliance

Background and purpose of the alliance

BEYOND is developing three businesses: cloud/server business, server-side development business, and web services business. Among these businesses, BEYOND has been closely involved in the game industry, having conducted server construction, operation and maintenance, and server-side development for a number of games.

By working together with Amazing's accumulated expertise in game development, the two companies will aim to jointly create new content while strengthening their existing businesses in the game industry, such as cloud construction and operation and server-side development.

In addition, by collaborating with Amazing, which has a large number of game production planners, engineers, and designers, we will be able to approach our clients from a variety of angles, thereby broadening the scope of our project proposals and expanding into new business opportunities.

Furthermore, from the perspective of education, including the training of young people, we intend to create synergies and new value by combining the educational business know-how cultivated through the e-sports school operated by Amazing.

About Amazing

Amazing is a company based in Namba, Osaka that plans, develops, and operates social games and smartphone applications, with the Venus series at the forefront. We plan, develop, and operate social games and smartphone applications using the game development know-how we have cultivated since our founding. Under the motto of "creating fresh surprises and new values," we continue to take on new challenges to meet the expectations of our users, including the holding and participation in events.

We also operate "Osaka e-Games High School," a school where students can obtain a high school diploma while learning game production and e-sports business, and produce and manage a professional e-sports team, "Team IBIS" (Team Ibis).

Comment from Katsumi Marunaga, President of Amazing Co.

This is a big step for us as we are now able to take on new challenges together with BEYOND Co.

Since our founding, we have demonstrated our strength in the gaming field under the motto of "creating fresh surprises and new values.

We have been independently studying server technology in the mobile content and social game fields, and by developing our business together with BEYOND, we can expect further technological innovation and business expansion.

In recent years, we have also been actively expanding into the education and e-sports fields, and we are very pleased that this capital alliance will provide us with an opportunity to expand new possibilities.

All of us at BEYOND will redouble our efforts so that even more customers can take advantage of Amazing's business and services through this alliance.

Comment from Masahiro Haraoka, Representative Director of Beyond

We are very pleased to have this opportunity to work with Amazing, a company with over 20 years of experience in game development, and we are confident that we will be able to accelerate the development of new businesses through collaboration with Beyond's accumulated cloud server technology and server-side development technology. We are convinced that this collaboration will accelerate the development of new businesses.

Through this capital and business alliance, we will work together with Amazing to develop business by involving various stakeholders and deliver new services to as many people as possible.

About Amazing Corporation (https://www.amazing-game.co.jp)

Representative Director: Katsumi Marunaga

Head office: OCAT Building 4F, 1-4-1 Minatomachi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

Establishment : January 18, 2002

Capital ：20 million yen

Number of employees: 55

Business : Planning, development, and operation of social applications,

　　　　　　Educational business, e-sports business

About Beyond Inc. (https://beyondjapan.com)

Representative Director: Masahiro Haraoka

Head Office: Nankai SK Namba Bldg. 3F, 1-10-4 Nambanaka, Naniwa-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Establishment : April 4, 2007

Capital: 9 million yen

Number of employees: 82

Business: Cloud/server business, system development business, web service business