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The Latest Breaking News from Bandai Namco

Bad news for PC Elden Ring fans: Nightreign's network test is only coming to consoles

It lines up with prior FromSoft network tests, but I'm still bummed.

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'Elden Ring Nightreign' Network Test Set for February 2025 To Let Players Try Out Co-op Spin-Off

Bandai Namco and FromSoftware announced that Elden Ring Nightreign is getting a network test in February 2025.

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'Is this false advertising?' Tekken 8 fan left disappointed at 'horrid and not at all like advertised' Fist Meets Fate statue

'Is this false advertising?' Tekken 8 fan left disappointed at 'horrid and not at all like advertised' Fist of Fate statue

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'Tekken 8' is Getting Clive Rosfield of 'Final Fantasy XVI' as Its Next DLC Fighter

Bandai Namco announced that Final Fantasy XVI's Clive Rosfield will be joining the playable roster for Tekken 8.

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Pac-Man becomes an apex predator on a world shattered by intergalactic warfare in this very strange new metroidvania coming in 2025

And yes, it's from Bandai Namco.

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'We would like audiences to wonder what the f**k they did with Pac-Man': The creators of Secret Level say Bandai Namco encouraged them to do 'whatever we want' with the iconic dot-gobbler

No spoilers, but the Pac-Man episode of Secret Level is a wild one, and Bandai Namco was fine with that.

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Official Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero tournament ends in disaster as finalists fly up and down for 10 minutes straight, which some fans insist is peak performance

"After the match, we were told to stop and to 'really play'"

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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is "strengthening timeout penalties" for rage-quitting, but all players want is for the quitters to lose

Bandai Namco is aiming for "a fair and enjoyable gaming experience"

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Dark Souls' toughest boss duo has been transformed into some stylish glassware, which feels like fitting revenge for all the times they killed me

Pre-order your own Ornstein goblet and Smough tankard today

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After dominating The Game Awards in 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 is in the running for even more gold in 2024

Astro Bot and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lead The Game Awards 2024 nominations, but Larian's magnum opus is still in the fight.

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Baldur's Gate 3 is safe from the top-down Elden Ring CRPG that only exists in our imaginations and these modded screenshots

Drop a party of Tarnished in there and you have yourself a classic RPG.

PC Gamer

'Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO' Player Count Drops by 90% Following Explosive Release

The playercount for Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO dropped by around 90% since it was first released amid a variety of complaints and issues.

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The 10 strongest characters in Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero

Dragon Ball Budokai top ten-kaichi.

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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero "saw outstanding sales," and Bandai Namco says roughly 90% of that was from European and North American fans

Dragon Ball, in general, is orders of magnitude bigger outside Japan

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'Tekken 8' Tournament Finalist Disqualified, Banned for Competing in the Wrong Region

Bandai Namco disqualified a Tekken World Tournament finalist and banned him for a year for playing in the wrong region.

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'We apologize for not meeting the community's expectations:' Tekken 8 makes a rare acknowledgement of fan backlash after failing to include a $5 stage in its season pass

It's giving people free currency and pass holders the next stage as an apology.

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Unknown 9: Awakening review: a strong vision is better than following trends

A sleeper hit.

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Bandai Namco Pressures Staff to Quit, Cancels Several Projects, Reports Say

Bandai Namco indirectly laid off workers while it canceled several projects, reports say.

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I visit Cygames, the influential Japanese studio behind Granblue Fantasy: Relink, for an exclusive peek behind the scenes

"This is a company that wants to create great stories and share them, no matter how."

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200 Bandai Namco employees reportedly moved into 'expulsion rooms' designed to bore them into quitting, though the company maintains its innocence

Japan's strict laws surrounding dismissal make "layoffs" look a little different.

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Report: Elden Ring, Dragon Ball publisher Bandai Namco pressures 200 employees to quit with "expulsion rooms" after cancelling a Nintendo game, other projects

A new report claims Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco is pressuring roughly 200 of its staff to leave the company with "expulsion rooms."

GamesRadar

Dragon Ball Sparking Zero isn't even fully out yet and fans are finding additional DLC online

Dragon Ball Sparking Zero: Martial Arts Pack has leaked

PC Gamer

Bandai Namco says sorry for disqualifying a top Tekken World Tour contender whose country wasn't listed among the 189 eligible options

It's not like China is easy to miss.

GamesRadar

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's Great Ape Vegeta is wrecking players so hard even Bandai Namco is memeing about it: "This monke got hands"

Everybody's reliving their childhood Budokai Tenkaichi trauma

PC Gamer

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero review

In a tournament featuring the best Dragon Ball games, Sparking! Zero would come out on top.

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