Creatures Inc. is a subsidiary company that was formerly called Ape Nintendo Inc.. It was founded in March 1989 with the EarthBound series, changing its name to Mono Inc.
Creatures Inc. worked on the Nintendo Wii game PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure and worked with Hal Laboratory to develop Pokémon Ranger. It is also the producer of the Pokémon card game and owns a third of the copyright of the Pokémon franchise (the other two thirds are equally divided with Nintendo and Game Freak.