We knew Namco Bandai was getting a (small) name change, but now we have a date as well. The company has confirmed that it’s “new” Bandai Namco rebranding will take place on April 1. This will apply to all communications, product branding, and presences in digital and online spaces.
Nobuhiro Kasahara, chief operating officer at Namco Bandai Games. America Inc., said:
“Since its merger in late 2005, BANDAI NAMCO Games has grown to be one of the largest and most successful game publishers in its native Japan, the United States, Latin America, and Europe. The BANDAI NAMCO Games logo has now become synonymous with great gaming products and services; it’s the perfect time for us to unify our corporate brand around the world and move forward together in a united front as a global company.”
You can find today’s announcement in full below.
If all goes well, Renegade Kid will submit Moon Chronicles (in other words, its first episode) to Nintendo of America by month’s end. That’s according to studio co-founder Jools Watsham who just shared the tidbit of information on Twitter.
He said:
.@XCWarrior1 Our goal is to submit Moon Chronicles (Episode 1) to NOA for approval before the end of February.
— Jools Watsham (@JoolsWatsham) February 5, 2014
At the moment, Natsume doesn’t have any news to share regarding Harvest Moon for Wii U.
Community manager “CeeCee” recently responded to a number of requests for the series to appear on new consoles, most of which specifically mentioned Nintendo’s system. Sadly though, Natsume has “nothing to announce.”
CeeCee’s comments in full:
Unfortunately, there is nothing to announce at this time. The development of games on any specific consoles is very dependent on the install base of that console. The larger the install base, the better chance a unique game like Harvest Moon will do. Thus, we are always watching how each and every console is doing, and waiting for the right opportunity.
Pokemon Bank as well as Poke Transporter have launched across North America. 3DS owners can download the two apps at no extra cost, via the eShop. Pokemon Bank takes up 238 blocks of space on an SD card while Poke Transporter requires 218 blocks.
On Wii U, Miiverse has received a small update in order to match it more closely with the 3DS version.
The update pertains to two features. First, reloading has been switched from the L button to the Y button. Users can also now use the L/R buttons to quickly move up/down between posts.
Miiverse’s Marty shared the update news in an official post made earlier today:
Nyamyam last targeted a Q1 2014 launch for Tengami on Wii U, but the game is now expected out in Q2. The studio said on Twitter earlier today that extra time is needed in order to solve incompatibility with some of the middleware used in the game.
Nyamyam wrote:
@69wpm It will be Q2. Some of the middleware we use doesn't currently support Wii U and we need to spend some time to solve that.
— Nyamyam (@nyamyamgames) February 5, 2014
