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A demo for Bandai Namco’s upcoming RPG Tales of Berseria is now available to download on PS4 and PC, the company has announced. The demo landed yesterday and can be downloaded directly from the game’s respective Steam and PlayStation Network pages. Players who pre-order the game afterwards will also receive …
Read More »Bandai Namco officially confirms Power Rangers game
There will be a tie-in game arriving alongside next year’s Power Ranger movie reboot. As leaked last week, Bandai Namco is publishing Saban’s Mighty Morphin Power Ranger: Mega Battle. The ‘Saban’ part of that title refers to the return of the series’ creator Haim Saban, who is producing the new …
Read More »New Malaysia studio for Bandai Namco
Japanese publisher’s latest branch will focus on visual art production
Read More »Tarsier Studios partners with Bandai Namco to turn Hunger into Little Nightmares
Studio behind Vita version of LittleBigPlanet originally revealed horror adventure title in early 2014
Read More »Dark Souls 3 sales push Bandai Namco forecast upwards
It sounds as if Dark Souls 3 has done the business for Bandai Namco. The company has in its most recent financial report said that sales of From Software’s action RPG were favourable” and have contributed to its raising of forecasts for the company’s second quarter. It has previously predicted …
Read More »XBLA creator and former Battle.net chief announces mobile platform Sparcade
Mobile platform allows players to compete in classic games such as Tetris and Pac-Man to win real money
Read More »Dark Souls III was the No.1 UK game in April
Bandai Namco had the best-selling UK physical game of April in Dark Souls III. But it was a poor month overall for game sales. 1m boxed games were sold in total, a drop of 24 per cent over the same period a month before. 30.8m was generated from software sales, …
Read More »Bandai Namco rolls back Dark Souls 3 patch designed to address hacking problem
A patch that was released to try and address hacking in the PC version of Dark Souls 3 has been revoked after it caused widespread freezing problems for players. Developer From Software last week updated the RPG to try and address the high-profile hacking of the game that led to …
Read More »3m copies of Dark Souls 3 shipped worldwide
Bandai Namco has shipped 3m copies of From Software’s action RPG Dark Souls 3, following its release in March. Gematsu also reports that total shipments for all three games in the Dark Souls series have now hit 13m units. This does not include Sony-published pair Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne. Dark …
Read More »Dark Souls 3 was YouTube’s most popular game in April
They say YouTube is the best barometer for the games industry, and if that’s the case then the sun is most definitely currently shining on Bandai Namco’s Dark Souls 3. The action RPG was named as the network’s top trending game of April 2016. This is based both on views …
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