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...can really work wonders in terms of sales of digital content and merchandise,” says CLSA analyst Jay Defibaugh, citing the ways in which IP owned by Japanese toy and games groups like Konami and Bandai Namco...
...There are three ongoing geo-blocking investigations into Nike; video game suppliers Valve Corporation, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax; and holiday companies Kuoni, Rewe, Thomas...
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...The second investigation will examine the bilateral agreements for PC games between Valve Corporation, which owns the popular Steam game distribution platform, and five video game publishers: Bandai Namco...
...Behind the façade of rigid, rules-based Japan Inc, says Mr Iwatani, were companies that had mastered digital-talent management long before Facebook and Google were around....
...“The rivals for our smartphone games are not other smartphone games,” says one senior executive at games group Bandai Namco, “but social media, books, newspapers and magazines.”...
...Japan’s Namco Bandai (Power Rangers) in February cut its forecasts because of tough North American and European markets. Life is even harder for specialist retailers....
...“Many Android tablet vendors are weeping right about now.”" 10.45am We’re getting a game demo now from Namco to show off the iPad’s capabilities....
...Japan’s videogame companies marked the launch with a stream of iPad games, such as Chocobo Panic from Square Enix, and a taiko drumming game from Namco Bandai that uses the iPad’s touchscreen as a drum kit...
...All five of Japan’s top publishers – Capcom, Konami, Namco Bandai, Sega and Square Enix – are developing games for Natal....
...Twelve out of the 25 most popular apps are games, including Namco’s Pac-man and SGN’s iBowl....
...Yusuke Fukuda, a director at Bandai, estimates that the market is shrinking by 5 per cent annually, though he adds that Bandai – which bought the video game maker Namco in 2005 – is targeting 10 per cent...
...He admitted the US was trailing Japan and Korea, where companies such as Namco and Sega were moving forward with multiplayer games on more sophisticated phones....
...Namco Bandai, the video games maker, jumped 7 per cent to Y1,842 after it exceeded its own profits forecast....
...Namco Bandai, one of Japan’s top games makers, surged 6 per cent to Y1,802 after Lehman Brothers raised its rating on the company, saying it was underrated....
...Ken Kutaragi, the engineer known as the father of the Sony PlayStation videogame console, is to split his time between Sony and a new joint venture with Japan’s Namco Bandai, as Sony attempts to reinforce...
...MGA Entertainment, the US maker of Bratz dolls, is seeking to block the attempted takeover of Zapf Creation, the loss-making German dollmaker, by Japan’s Namco Bandai....
...But Namco Bandai plunged 12.7 per cent to Y1,440 after the toymaker more than halved its 2005/06 net profit forecast....
...Namco will make a one-for-one swap. The proposed merger places an 11 per cent premium on Namco's shares. Namco's shares responded by rising 8.9 per cent to Y1,531....
...Shares of Namco, a software developer, were up 1.2 per cent at Y2,645 after the company said it planned a 2-for-1 share split for its shareholders at the end of September....
...Namco, a software developer, put on 1.2 per cent at Y2,645 after the company said it planned a 2-for-1 share split for its shareholders at the end of September....
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