Posts Tagged ‘Namco’

Namco Banda Moves Development Back to Japan

December 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Namco Bandai has announced that it will be moving all game development back to Japan. The company is dissatisfied with the results of development studios outside of Japan.

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Namco Releases Discovery App

July 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Namco has released their Namco Games Portal app on the App Store. With the app, Namco hopes to help consumers discover new content and promotions from the publisher.

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Pac-Man Does 30 Million Brew Downloads

July 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

In the year that Pac-Man is turning 30, Namco has announced that their key franchise has generated over 30 million downloads on the Brew platform in the US, proving that Brew is still bringing in good revenues.

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Namco Boosts Unity SDK Userbase

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

During the GDC, Namco announced their own social gaming platform as an answer to the popularity of Scoreloop and OpenFeint. The benefit of theirs would be the multiplatform strategy.

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Barry O’Neill Leaves Namco Mobile

March 31st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

He had great ambitions for Namco’s mobile department in Europe, but after Namco outsourced the mobile business for Europe to EA, Barry O’Neill has now left to pursuit his dreams with his own venture.

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GDC: Namco’s Unite SDK

March 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Namco is taking their games multiplatform with their Unite SDK. Through the SDK, gamers can challenge each other over different machines but within the same game.

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Namco Licenses Flight Control for non-iPhone Platforms – UPDATED

February 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

This is one that no one saw coming. After transferring their European non-iPhone business to competitor EA Mobile, Namco now announces to have licensed Flight control for non-iPhone platforms.

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Namco Confirms 23 Million Downloads on App Store

January 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Namco has a reason to celebrate. Through their games on the app store, the company generated 23 Million downloads. Pac-Man is leading their portfolio and generates over 36K downloads a day.

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Namco Arcade Launches on Facebook

January 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

Namdo Bandai Networks and Mplayit have launched a new storefront for Namco’s mobile offering. At the storefront, players can leave reviews and directly purchase any of the titles on the site.

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EA Takes over Distribution of Namco Europe

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Distribution | No Comments »

Yesterday, we could already tell you that NamcoBandai would sign over European distribution of it's mobile games. Today we can officially announce that EA will be their exclusive partner for Europe, Russia, India, Latin America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

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