Company:Bandai Namco Entertainment
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https://bandainamcoent.co.jp/english/ | |
Subsidiaries | |
B.B. Studio Bandai Namco Online Bandai Namco Studios D3 Publisher Namco Tales Studio |
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Previous names | |
Bandai | |
Namco | |
Bandai Namco Games | |
Founded | |
March 31, 2006 | |
Bandai Namco Entertainment is a Japanese multinational video game publisher and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings.
It was originally existed as two separate companies, Namco and Bandai.
Namco was founded on June 1, 1955 as Nakamura Seisakusho and is primary focused on the arcade video game market in the 70's. The company change its name to Namco in 1977 and later enter the home video game market in 1983.
Bandai, a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor, was founded on July 5, 1950, but did not enter the home video game market until 1985 and is primary publishes licensed video games.
In 2005, the two companies merged and formed Bandai Namco Holdings, and this resulted in the formation of a new game publishing entity, Bandai Namco Games (Namco Bandai Games outside of Asia until 2014), in 2006. Bandai Namco Games had also absorbed Banpresto's video game division Banpresoft (which in turn inherited the Super Robot Wars game IP), which later become B.B Studio following the merge with Bandai Entertainment Company in 2011. In 2015, the publisher changed its name to Bandai Namco Entertainment. The company later transferred its amusement machine business division to the sister company Bandai Namco Amusement in 2018.
Many of the IPs the publisher have were results of the mergers of multiple companies. Since the publisher is a subsidiary company of Bandai Namco Holdings, some of the licensed games were based on properties owns by other subsidiary companies, such as the Gundam series by Bandai Namco Filmworks (formerly Sunrise).
Games developed
Games published
Games ported to Windows
Game | Developer | Publisher | Engine | Windows release |
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Dead to Rights II | Widescreen Games | Namco, Akella | RenderWare | 15 August 2005 |