Cosmo Machia's logo
Cosmo Machia (株式会社コスモマキアー) is a videogame developer located in Koraku, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.
The company was founded in 2010 by former Athena/Warashi staff members and is the developer of games such as Fantavision 202X along with the Switch port of Alfa System's Shikigami no Shiro II. Tsutomu Tabata is the Chief Technology Officer of the company.
Cosmo Machia and Triggerheart Exelica[]
Main Article: Triggerheart Exelica (2023 Release)
On May 15th of 2023, the company announced the acquisition of Triggerheart Exelica's rights. After a successful crowdfunding campaign where the game was announced as based on the Dreamcast release (using the XBLA version as the game's engine), Triggerheart Exelica was released on the Nintendo Switch on December 14th.
This passing of rights somehow saved Triggerheart Exelica from being forgotten as the expiration of the Microsoft-Warashi publishing deal led to the delisting of the XBOX Live Arcade version on August 31st.
On September 11, 2024, they announced a re-release of Triggerheart Exelica Enhanced on 2025, with a Makuake crowdfunding on September 20th that reached 100% on October 10th of the same year 29 days before the crowdfunding deadline ended, so it is expected to reach even further on the percentage.
A playable demo was shown at the Konami Tokyo Game Show 2024. According to Amazon, the European release date of the game will be released on March 31st.
Curiosities[]
- Cosmo Machia and Exelica's release mirrors Warashi's origins.
- Tsutomu Tabata founded Cosmo Machia just like he and Noriyuki Takasaki formed Warashi after splitting from Athena.
- Triggerheart Exelica's re-release and reutilization of the XBLA version shares a parallelism with Shienryu as Takasaki and Tabata took Athena's Daioh with them to remake it as Shienryu.
External links[]
- Cosmo Machia's Homepage (Japanese)
- Cosmo Machia's Triggerheart Exelica main portal (Japanese)
- Cosmo Machia acquires rights to Triggerheart Exelica [Gematsu.com]
- コスモマキアーが「トリガーハート エグゼリカ」の権利取得を発表―関連商品に関しては後日告知予定 [Gamer.ne.jp] (Japanese)
- コスモマキアー、シューティングゲーム「トリガーハート エグゼリカ」のゲームなどに関する権利を取得 [Gamebiz.jp] (Japanese)
- コスモマキアー、STG『トリガーハート エグゼリカ』のゲーム等に関する権利を取得。今後積極的に制作・配信へ (Automation-media] (Japanese)
- 「トリガーハート エグゼリカ」がTGS2023にて試遊出展！ステージでは「復活報告イベント」も開催 [Gamer.ne.jp] (Japanese)