The Namco Bandai/Tecmo Koei ultra-collaborative will unleash more One Piece-themed crowd combat on PS3 this summer. One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 will be released in North America and Europe, Namco announced, with the American version exclusively available through PSN just [...]
Namco Bandai iOS games on sale through Monday
For those looking to save a few bucks but want some new mobile games to play while waiting in check-out lines on Black Friday, Namco Bandai has you covered. The publisher recently put 20 of its apps on sale on [...]
Macross 30 coming from Namco Bandai
During the Tokyo Game Show Namco Bandai announced a new game in the Macross series called Macross 30. The game will launch some time in 2013. The lone detail known about the game is that its theme song will be [...]
Namco trademark points to US release for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle
CyberConnect2′s upcoming manga adaptation/fighting game JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle (not to be confused with Capcom’s recently released JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure HD on XBLA and PSN) may see the light of day on North American shores, should a recently [...]
Namco Bandai game business up 32% in fiscal quarter, Soulcalibur 5 leads sales
Namco Bandai’s Game Software Division brought in 13.8 billion yen ($ 176.3 million) in its fiscal Q1 (ended June 30), up over last year’s 10.4 billion yen. Overall, the “Content Business” that includes game software brought in 57 billion yen [...]
Namco Bandai profits up in Q3 2012, as are year-end projections
Namco Bandai’s financial statement for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 has been released, and while the report contains a lot of tables and numbers and figures, it actually has very few pictures, which was a problem for our exceedingly [...]
Namco spins off internal dev studios into ‘Namco Bandai Studio’
Much like Prince becoming the “Love Symbol” back in better times (the mid-’90s), Namco Bandai Holdings announced plans to spin off its existing internal development teams into a separate company (that is also still totally part of Namco, by the [...]
Namco Bandai co-publishing Star Trek in Q1 2013
The co-op-centric Star Trek title unveiled at last year’s E3 has found itself a publisher. Namco Bandai will be “co-publishing” and distributing the Digital Extremes-developed space romp alongside Paramount Digital Entertainment sometime during the first quarter of 2013. The Q1 [...]
Namco: Dark Souls developer’s ‘easy mode’ comments were mistranslated
After comments from Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki spread across the web like a Great Chaos Fireball, Namco appears to be doing some damage control. In an interview with Metro, Miyazaki’s comments – as they were originally translated – hinted [...]