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Capcom's predecessor, I.R.M. Corporation, was founded on the 30th of May, 1979, by Kenzo Tsujimoto. Capcom Co., Ltd. itself was established on the 11th of June, 1983, to take over the internal sales department.
Capcom is a clipped compound of "Capsule Computers", a term the company coined for the arcade machines it manufactured in its early years. "Capsule" referred both to game software packed with gaming fun and to the company's intention to protect its intellectual property with a hard outer shell against illegal copies.
Monster Hunter: World, released in 2018, is Capcom's best-selling game as of 2025, with 22 million copies sold. It was developed to modernize the Monster Hunter series and simplify its steep learning curve to reach a broader global audience.
A strip mahjong game called Mahjong Gakuen saved Capcom from financial crisis in the late 1980s. It outsold Ghouls 'n Ghosts, the eighth highest-grossing arcade game of 1989 in Japan, and is credited with pulling the company back from the edge of collapse.
On the 2nd of November, 2020, the hacker group Ragnar Locker attacked Capcom's servers with ransomware and allegedly stole 1TB of sensitive corporate data. Contact information for up to 350,000 employees and partners was exposed, along with plans for upcoming games. Capcom confirmed no credit-card or financial information was obtained.
The RE Engine is a game development platform Capcom built to replace its older MT Framework. It was developed as part of a broader strategic turnaround in the mid-2010s to help Capcom's studios work across a wider range of hardware, including newer consoles. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard in 2017 was the first game released using it.