Namco Bandai Archive

  • Dark Souls Sequel Confirmed for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360

    Dark Souls Sequel Confirmed for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360

    I hope you’re prepared to die again, for the millionth time, in a third Souls game. Yeah buddy. Tonight during the 2012 Video Game Awards Namco Bandai and FromSoftware announced Dark Souls II, in development for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Details are few, but […]

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  • Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Wii U Edition is Ready to Rumble

    Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Wii U Edition is Ready to Rumble

    Tekken Tag Tournament 2‘s excellent core fighting gameplay merges with the playful party game mentality of Nintendo for a wacky new edition specifically for Wii U. Wii U owners have full right to stick their tongues out and taunt PS3/360 Tekken Tag pugilists, thanks to […]

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  • TANK! TANK! TANK! Launch! Launch! Launch! Go! Go! Go!

    TANK! TANK! TANK! Launch! Launch! Launch! Go! Go! Go!

    The Tank Boys of Hank & Frank’s Tanks are here to sell you on one of the goofballiest titles you’re going to find in today’s Wii U day-one launch lineup. The title pretty much says it all: TANK! TANK! TANK! is a battle party game […]

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  • Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Brings the Wacky Back on Wii U

    Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Brings the Wacky Back on Wii U

    Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is a fantastic fighting game. I reviewed it, and I loved it. However, it was missing that little extra quirky spark that Tekken has become known for. Sure, the character customization allows you to suit your fighters up in some silly […]

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  • Review: Tekken Tag Tournament 2

    Review: Tekken Tag Tournament 2

    Tekken Hybrid gave us a decent prologue tease, along with an HD-remastered history lesson, last fall, but after more than a decade a proper Tekken Tag Tournament successor has entered the crowded fighting game arena to reclaim its King of Iron Fist crown. Tekken Tag […]

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  • Prepare to be Spellbound by the Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Wizard’s Edition

    Prepare to be Spellbound by the Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Wizard’s Edition

    Level-5’s Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is finally coming west January 22, 2013, an occasion so grand Namco Bandai couldn’t let it pass without offering a super-special (and super-exclusive) collector’s edition. For a limited time, PlayStation 3 RPG lovers can pre-order the […]

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  • Review: Inversion

    Review: Inversion

    Namco Bandai teaches a lesson in poor release timing with the recent launch of Inversion. Saber Interactive’s latest original IP quietly landed on store shelves earlier this month, right smack in the middle of E3, a time in the gaming year when most gamers briefly […]

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  • Screenshot Saturday: Pre-E3 2012 Bash

    Screenshot Saturday: Pre-E3 2012 Bash

    The E3 2012 main event may not begin until Monday, but you could have fooled me considering the way publishers and developers unloaded such a mass quantity of game announcements and trailer reveals a week early. You’ll find loads of screenshots here, in the Pre-E3 […]

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  • Review: Ridge Racer Unbounded

    Review: Ridge Racer Unbounded

    I admit that I’m not much of a gear head when it comes to driving or playing racing games.  I find that arcade racers that lean a bit toward the realistic but offer plenty of spectacle are games that sit just right in my wheelhouse.  Kart racers […]

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  • Review: Tales of Graces f

    Review: Tales of Graces f

    It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who reminded us that character is everything. Of course, our naturalist pal was talking about words, deeds and moral consequences, not the ways in which deep and resonant characters can elevate a videogame experience. But we’re pretty sure he’d have […]

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