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Seven leading video games publishers have already signed up for MCM Expo. Firms that will be exhibiting at the October show include Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Capcom, Namco Bandai, Tecmo Koei and Rising Star. MCM Expo’s organisers are also hoping to sign up new publishers that have not attended before. We are …
Read More »Enslaved Collectors Edition detailed
Publisher Namco Bandai has announced that European retail is to receive an exclusive Collector’s Edition of its anticipated action title Enslaved. The SKU will include special packaging, a development-focused artbook and a CD soundtrack written and produced by renowned composer Nitin Sawhney. The game is written by famed writer Alex …
Read More »Namco spending big on Enslaved launch
Namco Bandai UK will dedicate its biggest marketing spend to the launch of new IP Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. And yes, that includes the money it spent on last year’s blockbuster brawler, Tekken 6. TV advertising is planned, while a huge print and online marketing campaign has already begun. …
Read More »New Ace Combat cleared for landing
The Ace Combat series will be ‘reborn’ on Xbox 360 and PS3 next year, Namco Bandai has told MCV. Ace Combat Assault Horizon marks the first time the franchise has appeared on PlayStation 3. Developed once again by Project Aces, the team has set about creating a more destructive air …
Read More »Namco brings casual in-house
In a nod to the ever growing importance of the casual games sector, it has been confirmed that social games publishing division Namco Networks America is to be merged with Namco Bandai Games America. Current Namco Networks CEO and COOKenji Hisatsune will subsequently become president and CEO of the new …
Read More »Namco Bandai release Q1 financials
Japanese firm suffers continuing losses, closes YoY deficit gap
Read More »Namco reports sales lift, drop in losses
Namco Bandai his filed it financial report for the quarter ending June 30th 2010, brining with it net sales reached YEN 81,912m, an increase of 8.2 per cent over the YEN 75,729m seen in the same period a year before. Operating income was up from YEN 2,758m last year to …
Read More »Street Fighter X Tekken to push genre forwards
A crossover of the much-loved Tekken and Street Fighter series will keep the beat ‘em up genre fresh. That’s according to Capcom and Namco, who last week announced they will join forces for two 360/PS3 games that merge the franchises. The publishers claim the new games – one handled by …
Read More »Nordic and Namco back GMAs
Namco Bandai and Nordic Games have become the latest publishers to support this year’s Games Media Awards at the Bloomsbury Ballroom on Thursday, October 14th. Both will be helping the winners celebrate and the losers drown their sorrows by pushing singing and drinking to the top of the After Show …
Read More »Capcom/Namco ‘makes history’ with fighter dev deal
Japanese giants' big franchises do battle in two Tekken vs Street Fighter games
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