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One Punch Man is getting a fighting game. Titled One Punch Man A Hero Nobody Knows, it’s slated for PS4 and Xbox One. The Japanese release date is TBA, and the game has yet to announced for outside Japan.
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A nearly one-to-one scale Duel Disk is going on sale in Japan. In Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Duel Disk is a piece of dueling…
Online for the arcade version of Pokkén Tournament is ending in Japan. The game launched in 2015 and online for arcades will cease from March 25. Shame about arcade online play, but the game is very good on the Switch.
Two former Bandai employees have been arrested on suspicion of swindling the company out of 200 million yen ($1.8…
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When you think of woodblock prints, you probably don’t think of Mobile Suit Gundam. You should!
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This is Baku Tsuri Bar Hunter. It’s for the Nintendo 3DS, and it looks wonderfully peculiar.
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In Japanese superhero and monster movies, massive battles lay waste to cities. We rarely get to see what it’s like…
The three-day Tales Festival, celebrating the Tales RPGs, has wrapped up in Japan. Fans seem disappointed that a new Tales console title wasn’t announced at this year’s event. There were, however, trailers for new mobile phone games (here, here, and here).
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Bandai is releasing this 1/72 scale Millennium Falcon model kit that they “almost as precise and accurate” as the…
Bandai Namco announced BXD, a company that specializes in online games and smartphone compatible browser games. Three titles are slated for 2018 in Japan: a new Dragon Ball Z, a new Family Stadium, and a new Idolmaster. No word about international releases.
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown has been delayed. The game was originally slated for a 2017, but Namco Bandai has pushed it back to 2018, citing the need for extra time to finish the game. Better late than not ready!
Namco Bandai announced a new virtual reality experience called Evangelion VR: The Soul Seat.
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In Japan, Bandai is releasing a set of Poké Ball. There’s a total of 11 different Poké Balls in the set, and while…
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Namco Bandai is turning its idol simulator franchise The Idolmaster into a South Korean TV drama.
In Namco Bandai’s VR game Summer Lesson, players are the tutor of schoolgirl Hikari Miyamoto. But that’s the virtual…
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Taking a page from the Konami playbook, Namco has announced a 20th anniversary SoulCalibur release for pachinko…
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A trailer marking twenty years of SoulCalibur just hit Namco Bandai’s Japanese YouTube channel. Wonder if that means a new title is around the corner. Who knows? Namco Bandai does, that’s who.