Namco/Bandai Archive

  • Enslaved’s Blinking Environments: Distraction or Helpful Guide?

    Enslaved’s Blinking Environments: Distraction or Helpful Guide?

    What do you notice when you watch this gameplay footage from Ninja Theory’s upcoming action/adventure game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West? If you’re like me, your attention will instantly be drawn to the blinking environmental guides, which are both completely distracting and entirely unnecessary. I […]

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  • Screenshot Saturday: Kingdom Hearts Wakeboarding Stealthily in the Wild West

    Screenshot Saturday: Kingdom Hearts Wakeboarding Stealthily in the Wild West

    Yep, that time again. Here’s another round-up of fresh new screenshots from the past week! Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (PSP):

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  • Screenshot Saturday: GDC 2010 Blowout

    Screenshot Saturday: GDC 2010 Blowout

    My inbox was flooded with screenshot updates from GDC this week, and it’s taken me the better part of the past two hours compiling them into the 24 galleries posted below. You’ll find loads of screens for all the new PlayStation Move games, and other […]

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  • Screenshot Saturday: New Game Edition

    Screenshot Saturday: New Game Edition

    This weekend’s edition of Screenshot Saturday is all (well mostly) about games that were just announced this week, including Namco Bandai’s The Last Guardian-esque PS3 and Xbox 360 title Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, the surprise iPhone/PSP remakes of cult PS2 action game The Red […]

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  • Screenshot Saturday: More 3D Dot Game Heroes and Plenty Else

    Screenshot Saturday: More 3D Dot Game Heroes and Plenty Else

    Lots to get to this Screenshot Saturday, so let’s dive right in! 3D Dot Game Heroes:

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  • Tekken 6 Ready to Fight on PSP Next Week

    Tekken 6 Ready to Fight on PSP Next Week

    The PSP version of Tekken 6 has gone gold, Namco Bandai announced this week, and will be in stores next week on November 24th. Those wanting to purchase the digital download version via PSN will have to wait a few weeks, however, as the PSN […]

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  • Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked Comes Out of the Oven Golden Brown and Delicious

    Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked Comes Out of the Oven Golden Brown and Delicious

    Namco Bandai’s Wii cooking game Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked went gold today, and yes, it is a game I am very much looking forward to as a long-time watcher of cooking shows and someone who enjoys cooking. Food Network’s first game, which is […]

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  • Tekken 6 Online Features Detailed

    Tekken 6 Online Features Detailed

    Tucked away inside last week’s Tekken 6 “gone gold” press release, Namco Bandai also detailed the game’s full suite of online features in handy, easy-to-digest list form. Looking over the list, Tekken 6 appears to have a wealth of online options for PSN and Xbox […]

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  • Magnacarta 2 Kan System Walkthrough

    Magnacarta 2 Kan System Walkthrough

    Magnacarta 2, shipping to retailers today for Xbox 360, takes a different approach to the usual RPG magic system. Known as the Kan System, magic and special abilities are used based on the amount of Kan orbs that are floating in the atmosphere, with different […]

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  • These Games Are Gold: Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, Tekken 6 and Borderlands

    These Games Are Gold: Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, Tekken 6 and Borderlands

    Three huge late-October games went gold this week: Sony and Insomniac’s action-platformer Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, Namco Bandai’s fighter Tekken 6 and 2K Games and Gearbox’s “role-playing shooter” Borderlands. Ship dates are as follows.

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