Bandai Namco has announced a trio of DLCs for Dark Souls II called The Lost Crowns Trilogy. The content will be released for all three platforms – PS3, Xbox 360 and PC – and offers entirely original areas” with new bosses and loot. Crown of the Sunken King will be …
Read More »Bandai Namco ‘seeking avenues’ for Dark Souls on PC post GFWL
The upcoming death of Games for Windows Live doesn’t mean permanent hollowing for Dark Souls. That’s according to Bandai Namco, which has pledged that the PC version of the cult RPG will continue working for the time being and eventually migrate to an alternative system. With the release of Dark …
Read More »SoulCalibur: Lost Swords has no multiplayer ‘because of pay-to-win model’
The producer of Bandai Namco title SoulCalibur: Lost Swords has apparently stated that the game was designed to use a pay-to-win” payment model. That, producer Masaaki Hoshino has told Siliconera, is the reason why the free-to-play fighter opted for singleplayer instead of multiplayer gameplay. Originally we were thinking about having …
Read More »Bandai Namco has shipped 1.2m copies of Dark Souls II
From Software’s Dark Souls II has seen more than a million copies shipped on Xbox 360 and PS3 in Europe and America. Clearly that doesn’t include the PC game, which came out over a month after the console versions and after the end of the financial year. From data shows …
Read More »Technical issues disrupt Soulcalibur: Lost Swords
Bandai Namco’s free-to-play Soulcalibur game has endured a disastrous start to life. CVG reports that an unspecified technical issue” has left Soulcalibur: Lost Swords virtually unplayable for a significant portion of players following its release on PSN in America this week. "There is currently a technical issue that has delayed …
Read More »Free-to-play Ace Combat hits PS3 next month
Free-to-play title Ace Combat Infinity will launch next month on PlayStation 3, publisher Bandai Namco has announced. The game arrive in Japan on May 20th ; followed by its arrival in North America a week later on May 27th, and in Europe one day after that on May 28th – …
Read More »Bandai Namco announces free-to-play fighter Rise of Incarnates
The people behind Tekken and Soul Calibur are working on a new F2P fighter called Rise of Incarnates. It’s due out on PC via Steam later this year, CVG reports, and takes inspiration from the Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme series. It will launch with four characters with more to be …
Read More »Disc version of Dark Souls II on PC delayed in UK
UPDATE: The physical version of Dark Souls II on PC has been delayed by one week in the UK, MCV can confirm. "This is only affecting the UK on the boxed release of the game," a Bandai Namco rep said. "It will be delayed unfortunately and we apologise to UK …
Read More »Gamers launch campaign over alleged Dark Souls II graphics downgrade
Namco Bandai has found itself the subject of an internet campaign regarding complaints about the visual state of Dark Souls II. Following plenty of noise of NeoGaf, an online drive using the hashtags #DarkSoulsDowngrade and #YOULIED is targeting Namco Bandai’s US and UK offices alleging that the graphics offered by …
Read More »Bandai Namco bolsters dev capacity via Banpresto amalgamation
Japanese publisher grows internal development resource with Banpresto solely focusing on amusements
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