Ambit

Ambit (株式会社アンビット Kabushiki gaisha Anbitto, stylized as a mbit) is a Japanese editorial company. Among products related to Nintendo, their current main publication is the video game magazine Nintendo DREAM.

Overview
Ambit was established by the editorial staff of Nintendo Stadium following the decision to dissolve Intermedia Company, an in-house company of Tokuma Shoten which focused on video game books and magazines, in 1999. After Mainichi Communications became the publisher of Nintendo Stadium in 2000, Ambit began also editing Nintendo DREAM whose staff formed their own editing department in the company. The two magazines collaborated on writing strategy guides until 2002, when Nintendo Stadium was intergrated into Nintendo DREAM.

Affiliations
Nintendo: As with other editors and publishers, Ambit's products like strategy guides for games developed by Nintendo are licensed by Nintendo starting in the 2000s. Many have also recieved collaborative support or supervision from game producers themselves.

Tokuma Shoten: The current publisher of Ambit's works.

Mainichi Communications: The publisher of Ambit's works from 2000 to 2011.

Shogakukan: Following the switching of publishers from Mainichi Communications to Tokuma Shoten, staff from Ambit were also involved in productions published by Shogakukan. The most notable examples are Hyrule Historia and Encyclopedia Super Mario Bros., where Nintendo DREAM editor-in-chief Kazuya Sakai was listed in the staff credits.

OVERLAP: The producer of official guidebooks for Pokémon games founded in 2012. Staff from Ambit helped to edit the two official guides for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity.

Marvelous Inc.: Ambit's main connections to Marvelous Inc. come from the coverage of Rune Factory games released on Nintendo systems and official comics published on Nintendo DREAM. They were the producer of Marvelous Entertainment DREAM, a magazine with similar style to Nintendo DREAM which contained news and articles of Marvelous Inc. productions.

Special editions of Rune Factory 4 Special included an artbook which Ambit helped to produce.

Nippon Columbia: The publisher of soundtracks for Nintendo games. Many of them come with pamphlets or notebooks which Ambit helped to create.

Links
Ambit Pub – Official site Ambit Store – Online shop