In early 2005,
Namco Ltd and
Bandai Co Ltd announced plans to combine their operations. The merger took effect in September of that same year and both companies became under the umbrella of the newly created Namco Bandai Holdings.
On March 31, 2006, the game division of Bandai was merged to Namco and renamed Namco Bandai Games. During the same time, the amusement venue business of Namco was transferred into a new NBHD subsidiary that took on the Namco Ltd name and logo.
Namco Bandai has purchased a 34% stake in Atari Europe on May 14, 2009, paving the way for its acquisition from Infogrames.
They have a
Webcomic site known as
Shifty Look (
See here.
), which specializes in comics based off various games.
On June 22, 2012, it was announced that Namco Bandai are partnering with
Nintendo and Sora Ltd. to produce the next
Super Smash Brothers games for the
Wii U and
Nintendo 3DS. Namco Bandai are lending some of their top staff to the project, such as director of the
Tales Series Yoshito Higuchi and the main
TEKKEN Project development team.
Developed Games
Licensed Games:
Published Games (different developer)