DIGITAL HEARTS HOLDINGS Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”), the parent company of DIGITAL HEARTS Co., Ltd., announces that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today, it resolved to acquire all shares of HUWIZ SOLUTIONS INC. (“HUWIZ”) and make it a consolidated subsidiary. 

■Reason for the acquisition 

In recent years, the global video game market has continued to expand, with the trend towards borderless of games accelerating simultaneous global launches. Against this backdrop, DIGITAL HEARTS Group, which provides comprehensive Debugging/Quality Assurance (QA) services for game software, aims to strengthen its one-stop service capabilities including our core QA business, as well as localization and LQA (Linguistic Quality Assurance), marketing support, and multilingual voice recording. Through these efforts, DIGITAL HEARTS Group strive to evolve into a “Global Quality Partner in the Entertainment Industry” that can compete in the global market.  

Regarding QA service, in particular, DIGITAL HEARTS Group have leveraged over 20 years of expertise and our commitment to “Quality” to expand our efforts toward acquiring new overseas clients. Specifically, to handle English-language QA, the Company has established a dedicated QA center in India and built a new operational framework that combines our native English-speaking staff with a unique talent pool of approximately 8,000 individuals in Japan. These initiatives have enabled us to steadily build a track record of providing QA services to overseas clients. As part of these efforts, the Company has decided to make HUWIZ a consolidated subsidiary to further expand our English-language QA capacity and strengthen our customer base in North America and Europe. 

HUWIZ is a highly regarded company headquartered near Montreal, Canada, specializing in QA for game software. In addition to supporting titles developed by local Canadian studios, HUWIZ has contributed to improving the quality of some popular series titles developed by major Western game makers. Montreal is one of the world’s leading cities for game development, and since its founding in 2017, HUWIZ has continued to grow steadily by securing highly skilled personnel with expertise in game development and acquiring QA projects from various game development studios. 

　Moving forward, the Company will pursue group synergies through the sharing QA know-how and resources between our group and HUWIZ, and by accelerating full-scale global expansion with HUWIZ as a key base of operations, DIGITAL HEARTS Group aim to achieve further growth. 

■Overview of the company to be acquired as a subsidiary 

(1) Company name	HUWIZ SOLUTIONS INC.
(2) Location	200–298 De Martigny West St, Saint-Jérôme, QC J7Y 4C9, Canada
(3) Title and name of  representative	President – Carolljo Maher
(4) Business descriptions	QA service for game software
(5) Share capital	CAD 264 (JPY 28 thousand)
(6) Date of establishment	April 21, 2017
(7)  Operating results of HUWIZ	(Fiscal Year Ended October 2024)  Net sales: CAD 12,392 thousand (JPY 1,348 million)  Ordinary income: CAD 3,873 thousand (JPY 421 million)

■Number of shares to be acquired, acquisition cost and status of ownership before and after acquisition 

(1) The acquisition cost	Acquisition cost CAD 16,562 thousand (JPY 1,801 million)*1  Advisory fees, etc. (Estimated amount)  　 　  CAD 234 thousand (JPY   25 million)   Total (Estimated amount)　　　　　　　　  CAD 1,6796 thousand (JPY 1,827 million)
(2) Number of shares owned after transfer	244,101 shares  （Number of voting rights: 100）  （Ownership percentage of voting rights: 100％）

*1 Depending on HUWIZ’s financial results for the fiscal year ending October 2026, additional share acquisition costs may arise; however, details are currently undecided.
*2 The exchange rate used for calculation is 108.80 yen per Canadian dollar.

■Schedule 

(1) Date of the Board of Directors’ resolution	November 6, 2025
(2) Date of conclusion of the share transfer agreement	November 6, 2025 (Scheduled)
(3) Date of the share acquisition	November 20, 2025 (Scheduled)

The Company expect the stock acquisition to have a minor effect on DIGITAL HEARTS Group’s business results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026. However, the Company will promptly make an announcement if it is necessary to revise our results forecast or if any matter requiring disclosure is generated in the future. 

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【About DIGITAL HEARTS Group】  

Based on its corporate mission of “SAVE the DIGITAL WORLD,” the DIGITAL HEARTS is a Global Quality Partner that strives to provide guaranteed quality by supporting the development of the game and entertainment industry by offering a wide range of services, including game debugging (Quality Assurance), localization, and marketing support.  
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