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Bandai Namco Holdings
- Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. [a] is a Japanese multinational video game publisher owned by Bandai Namco Holdings. It was founded in 2006 as Namco Bandai Games Inc. [b], following the 2005 merger of Namco and Bandai. Namco acquired Bandai's video game business division through a corporate split.
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Bandai Namco Entertainment owns several multi-million video game franchises, including Pac-Man, Tekken, Soulcalibur, Tales, Ace Combat, Taiko no Tatsujin, The Idolmaster, and Dark Souls. Pac-Man himself serves as the official mascot of the company.
Bandai Namco Entertainment owns multiple subsidiaries, including Bandai Namco Studios, B.B. Studio, and D3 Publisher, all of which develop video games for home video game systems and cellular phones across the world.
Bandai Namco owns former developer Banpresto, which operates as a toy company in Japan and was purchased in 2006, and acquired a 95% stake in D3 Publisher in 2009. The company owns the video game assets of defunct developer BEC, which merged with Banpresto in 2011 to form B.B. Studio . [9]
FranchiseFirst GameReleasedLatest Game1995Ace Driver1994Ace Driver 3: Final TurnAlpine Racer1995Super Alpine RacerAnother Century's Episode *2005NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. and Bandai Networks Co., Ltd. are merged, with NAMCO BANDAI Games as the surviving company and Bandai Networks as the expiring company. Mar. 2009 EMOTION Co., Ltd. music business transferred to Lantis Co., Ltd. after an absorption-type split.
Today, Bandai Namco owns several franchises and intellectual properties (IPs) and is one of the largest video game publishers and toy manufacturers in Japan as well as worldwide . Bandai Namco’s...
The move was pursuant to an announcement made in September 2005 that NAMCO, a video game developer and publisher, and Bandai, a manufacturer of character merchandise such as toys, children’s entertainment and trading cards, will establish a joint holding company to compete more effectively in the fast-changing global industry and to generate new...
Bandai Namco Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings (BNHD) and specializes in management and sales of video games and other related entertainment products, while its Bandai Namco Studios subsidiaries specialize in the development of these products. It is one of Bandai Namco's five main strategic business units. [2]
