Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. is a Japanese multinational video game publisher headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Its international branches, Bandai Namco Entertainment America and Bandai Namco Europe are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California, and Lyon, France. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings, an entertainment conglomerate. Bandai Namco Entertainment was formed on 31 March 2006, following a corporate merger between Namco and Bandai on 29 September of the previous year. Originally known as Namco Bandai Games, it merged Bandai Games and Namco Networks in January to create Namco Bandai Games America. Namco Bandai Games absorbed Banpresto's video game division in 2008 and dissolved Bandai Networks in 2009. Development operations were spun off into a new company in 2012, Namco Bandai Studios (now called Bandai Namco Studios), to help create faster development time and tighter cohesion between development teams. Namco Bandai Games was renamed Bandai Namco Games in 2014 and again to Bandai Namco Entertainment a year later. Bandai Namco Entertainment owns several multi-million video game franchises, including Pac-Man, Tekken, Soulcalibur, Tales, Ace Combat, Taiko no Tatsujin, The Idolmaster, and Dark Souls. Pac-Man himself serves as the official mascot of the company. The company also owns the licenses to several Japanese media franchises, such as Shonen Jump, Gundam, Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Sword Art Online, and the Ultra Series. It is the core publishing and development area of the Bandai Namco Group's "Content Strategic Business Unit" (Content SBU), and the main video game branch of Bandai Namco Holdings.
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for Development Studio in Digimon Mystery Dungeon
Suggested by tildeheart
One day, a Digimon named Quantumon descends upon the Digital World with a message: Yggdrasill, the god-like entity that runs the Digital World's servers, has decided to share a fraction of its power with whoever braves the journey down to its heart and speaks with it. Enticed by this power and the opportunities it holds for them, many Digimon brave the journey to the Digital World's heart, and others similarly rally behind those who they believe should harness Yggdrasill's power. Entire factions spring up overnight, and lines are drawn in the sand as these factions go to war over who should be the one to speak with Yggdrasill. In the midst of all this, a young Digimon hatches in the Primary Village, and little does anyone know that this Digimon will soon be the one to turn the tide of this endless war and journey... ║ fancast for a Digimon-based installment of the Mystery Dungeon franchise. Professional VAs only, no celebs.
