PlayStation

Namco Says You Won’t Pay To Unlock Characters In Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Capcom’s caught a lot of heat for the on-disc locked content that shipped with Street Fighter x Tekken. Fans have loudly complained that they’ll be paying for characters that on a game disc they’ve already paid for once.


April 16, 2012
In Real Life

Even In Plastic, That’s A Big Sword

This summer, Alisa from Namco’s monster hunting game God Eater Burst is getting her own figurine. It’s not very subtle! And at ¥8,190 (US$101), the 1/7 scale figure is not exactly cheap, either.


April 12, 2012
News

Check Out That New Game From Capcom, Sega, And Namco

Project X Zone is an upcoming collaboration from Capcom, Sega, and Namco. The game is an role-playing sim and features characters from all three game makers. The characters square off in groups of two and duke it out.


April 11, 2012
News

Three Of Japan’s Biggest Game Makers Joining Force On One Game

Sega. Capcom. Namco. The three game companies are collaborating on a new role-playing 3DS game called Project X Zone.


March 27, 2012
News

Namco Bandai Updates Its ‘X’ With ‘Action Adventure’

Thrilling! Day two of Namco Bandai’s drip-fed PR continues. In this instalment of irritating corporate promotion, Namco Bandai added the words “action adventure” in Japanese, along with three question marks.


March 26, 2012
In Real Life

Namco Bandai Puts A Giant "X" On A Website

Another teaser website. Sick of them yet? This latest one from Namco Bandai is for a new title. The teaser site has a giant “X” on it. Fascinating.


March 19, 2012
PlayStation

Soulcalibur V’s Next Costume Offerings Includes A Pac-Man Cameo (Sort Of)

Pac-Man is having a hell of a career second act in fighting games. Of course, he is one of the free characters in Street Fighter X Tekken on the PlayStation 3. Now it looks like he’ll be included — as some kind of bizarre head-thing — in Soulcalibur V‘s next batch of monthly costume DLC. See for yourself at 1:02 in this video.


March 2, 2012
In Real Life

If This Pac-Man Game Is Sex, Its Bitchin’ Menu Music Is The Foreplay

Welcome back to “Menu Music,” our regular Kotaku Melodic feature where we look at (and listen to) the best and worst menu music the video game world has to offer.


February 17, 2012
In Real Life

Futurama, Street Fighter And Last Airbender Leap Onto SoulCalibur V’s Stage Of History

We already knew that SoulCalibur V‘s character creator is powerful enough to allow you to create all sorts of messes, but this ups the ante one notch more.


February 10, 2012
News

Bandai Namco Making ‘Bandai Namco Studio’

Today, Bandai Namco, known as Namco Bandai in the West, revealed it’s created a new studio called Bandai Namco Studio. It will be responsible for Tekken, SoulCalibur, Taiko no Tatsujin, the Tales games and the Gundam games.