Namco Bandai Games

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Namco Bandai Games, Incorporated (NBGI) 株式会社バンダイナムコゲームス

Type	100% subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings
Founded	2006 (formally 1955 as Nakamura Manufacturing Ltd)
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan (JP / World) Santa Clara, California (U.S.)
Industry	home video game, arcade game
Parent	Namco Bandai Holdings
Website	(Japanese) (English)

Namco Bandai Games, Incorporated (Or Bandai Namco Games) (NBGI) (株式会社バンダイナムコゲームス, Kabushiki-gaisha Bandai Namuko Geemusu^?) is a arcade and home video game producer which is the product of a merger between Bandai's video game division and the game development division of the original Namco Ltd. Namco Bandai Games is a wholly owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings (NBHD) and specialises in production and sales of home video games and arcade games. It is the head company of Namco Bandai Group's Game Contents Strategic Business Unit (SBU).

1 History
2 Games
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

In early 2005, Namco Ltd and Bandai Co Ltd announced plans to combine their operations. The merger took effect in September of that same year and both companies became under the umbrella of the newly created Namco Bandai Holdings.

For the history of Namco before the renaming in March 2006, see Namco 1.

On March 31, 2006, the game division of Bandai was merged to Namco and renamed Namco Bandai Games. During the same time, the amusement venue business of Namco was transferred into a new NBHD subsidiary that would take on the name Namco Ltd and logo. See Namco 2 for that company.

On November 8, 2007, Namco Bandai announced that Banpresto's video game operations will be absorbed into Namco Bandai Games on April 1, 2008. Banpresto itself will only focus on its prize machines business.^[1]