Category Archives: Namco Bandai

Namco Bandai’s announced it’s to bring Tales of Tactics to Android this July, featuring characters from past major Tales of games in the series, including Vesperia, Graces, Of The Abyss, Symphonia and more.

Siliconera has more details.

Famitsu’s said the announcement of the next Tales game in June will be a “mothership” game.

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Namco’s released new DLC for Touch My Katamari in Japan. The new content features collaborations from manga/anime Usagi Drop, manga artist Takayuki Mizushina, retailer Matsumoto Shoten, East Japan Taxi ‘Blue Ribbon’ and a redevelopment group. Nope, I don’t get it neither.

Andriasang has more info.

The latest issue of Jump in Japan has confirmed the next Tales of game will be announced next month. The announcement will be made at the Tales of festival on June 2-3 in Japan. The new title is merely called “Next Tales of…” without any platforms attached. Its assumed this’ll be the announce of the next HD title in the series following Xillia for PS3. Graces F launches on European PS3s this summer.

Via Tales Source. Thanks, RPG Site.

Namco Bandai announced in its year-end financial report that Dark Souls sold over 1.19 million copies in Europe and the US on PS3 and Xbox 360 combined.

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Kenji Hisatsune says goodbye to Bandai and hello to Square.

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Anime’s second most stylish ronin is back: Andriasang reports Namco Bandai has announced a second PSP outing for Rurouni Kenshin. Like last year’s effort, it’s a fighter, and should release in northern summer. The first one didn’t escape Japan – nor have any Rurouni Kenshin games as I recall – so don’t hold your breath unless you’re import-friendly.

Seriously. That game is getting its money’s worth out of CryEngine 3 if you can make sniper scopes look good. Gamefront has a whole handful of shots of the City Interactive shooter.

Namco brings the game to the UK on August 21 for PS3, 360 and PC.

Namco Bandai Japan’s published a massive amount of screens for the console version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2, totalling 25 in total. Get them over on Andriasang. The fighter launches on PS3 and 360 this September. Get Stace’s recent impressions of it and interview with series producer Katsuhiro Harada here.

Want to get your swagger on for Witcher II swag? Son, it’s your swagtastic day.

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The latest wave of screenshots for Project X Zone have revealed a handful of new characters, including the likes of Dead Rising’s Frank West.

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Digital Extremes’ Star Trek movie tie-in may get a Wii U release, with the title set to release on “all major home consoles” in early 2013.

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Stace Harman ventures into the bright lights of Las Vegas to speak to series creator Katsuhiro Harada about expanding the audience of Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

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Namco Bandai has united its European and US operations under one arm as a whole. The announcement was made at the publisher’s recent media showcase in Las Vegas a few weeks back (via MCV). The new move will see Mark Tsuji as its new CEO. “We wanted to unite our overseas organisation under one leadership,” VP Carlson Choi said on the move.

More details at the link.

The Witcher II: Enhanced Edition for Xbox 360 has dethroned FIFA Street from the top of the UK charts.

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To celebrate the launch of The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition, Namco forced a group of UK journalists at sword point to jaunt around London in an effort to solve the murder of a king.

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Sega, Capcom, and Namco Bandai have released the first trailer for Project X Zone, the joint 3DS strategy RPG from the firms. The video below shows Dante, Kurt from Valkyria Chronicles 3, and Kite from .hack, and others, doing what they do best. The character roster can be found here, and screenshots are posted here, in case you missed them. The game’s out later this year. Thanks, Siliconera.

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Namco Bandai’s announced it’ll release Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 on August 21. The City Interactive FPS sequel will use CryEngine 3 to power the game, making it “the most authentic sniping experience to date in a video game”, according to Namco, who is distributing it in the UK, Greece, Italy and Spain.

It’ll launch on PS3, 360 and PC.

Namco Bandai has already proved it listens to the PC crowd by porting Dark Souls over, and may just bend an ear to vehement protestations against the unpopular Games for Windows Live.

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The Thundercats is heading to DS and was shown on the floor during Namco’s Global Gamers Day event last week.

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