Soul Calibur V review
Namco's series sharpens up its act for today's fighting game audience.
Namco's series sharpens up its act for today's fighting game audience.
Hands-on with the games to look out for when Sony's handheld launches in Europe.
4Namco's beloved arcade and Dreamcast fighting game Soulcalibur is now available on iPhone and iPad. All of the original 19 fighters are included, with game modes including Arcade Battle, Time Attack, two Survival modes and a training room, with more to be added in future updates. More >
A Namco Bandai executive has issued a daming assessment of the growing free-to-play trend, saying that games that use the increasingly popular model "can't be high quality." The claim comes from Olivier Comte, senior vice president for Europe, during his talk at Cloud Gaming Europe in London, reported by Industry Gamers. More >
Skyrim, Skyward Sword and Dark Souls vie for our mainstream game of the year award.
Modern Warfare 3, Portal 2 and Dark Souls vie for our best online experience award.
2Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada says support helped Namco realise entertainment still mattered in the aftermath of March earthquake.
A French court has awarded Namco Bandai publishing rights to the Xbox 360 version of CD Projekt's PC RPG The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings. Namco took action against CD Projekt parent Optimus SA in July, claiming it had secured rights to publish the Xbox 360 release in western Europe, Asia-Pacific and central and south America before the developer announced it would be published by THQ. More >
A handheld mix of the series' past and present with a controversial take on dogfighting.
Namco Bandai has announced plans to absorb the Namco Tales Studio, developer of the Tales series, on January 1, at which point the developer of the Tales games will be officially dissolved. Andriasang reports that the publisher declined to give a reason for the move, saying only that it will be rubber-stamped at a board meeting on November. More >
Namco Bandai enjoyed a good second quarter of the financial year, with net sales climbing almost 12 per cent and last year's losses wiped out with ease. Sales revenue for the three months to September 30 came to ¥194.2 billion (£1.56 billion), with profit totalling ¥8.02 billion (¥64.4 million). More >
Worldwide shipments of Dark Souls have passed 1.5 million, according to From Software and Namco Bandai. Andriasang reports that the largest proportion of that figure - 620,000 - went to retailers in North America More >
Sales of the 3DS rose by more than a third in Japan last week following the release of the new pink model. Nintendo's handheld was the best-selling hardware of the week, selling 73,933 units compared to the previous week's 55,025, according to Media Create data passed along by Andriasang. More >
Namco Bandai was the highest-grossing publisher in Japan in the six months to September 25, according to Japanese magazine Famitsu. With companies across the game industry set to release their half-yearly fiscal results in the coming weeks, the magazine used Enterbrain sales data and found that Namco Bandai grossed ¥17.8 billion (£146 million), giving it market share of 18 per cent. More >
This week's top ten sees six new entries, as Forza 4 debuts at five.
Namco Bandai has revealed that it will publish the PS3 version of Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, the RPG collaboration between Level-5 and Studio Ghibli, in Europe and North America next year. More >
The most accessible and invigorating outing in Namco's arcade air combat series yet.
4Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has admitted that he misses the outspoken Dead Or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki, who left Team Ninja last year and is now working on Devil's Third, an action-adventure for publisher THQ. "In the past, Itagaki always mentioned various things about Tekken," Harada told 1UP, a reference to a feature the site ran in 2005 in which Itagaki listed his five most-loved and most-hated games, with his hate-list entirely comprised of Tekken games More >
From Software's masterful open-world RPG stretches the limits of both risk and reward.
20Katamari Amore, the latest in the Katamari Damacy series created by Keita Takahashi, will be released on the Apple App Store on September 29, publisher Namco Bandai has announced. More >