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Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures will launch this fall on PS3, Wii U and Xbox 360, with a special side-scrolling version coming to 3DS, Namco Bandai announced. The game takes inspiration from the TV show of the same name, which is slated to begin airing June 17 on Disney XD.

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures features the iconic yellow character in a 3D adventure game in which he turns into a chameleon at some point, using his tongue to reel in ghosts. In the game's announcement trailer, Pac-Man also eats entire vending machines. Healthy choices, kids!

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Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures chomps North America this fall originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 14 May 2013 23:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Namco Bandai released its financial results for the end of its fiscal year today, noting increased earnings in multiple sectors despite missing sales targets for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Tales of Xillia 2.

The company's worldwide net sales grew by 7.3 percent, ending this fiscal year at ¥487 billion (approximately $4.9B), compared to last year's earnings of ¥434 billion. Namco Bandai's net income for the year ending March 31, 2013 was ¥32.4 billion ($327M), a 67.8 percent increase over last year's reported ¥19.3 billion.

Regional sales saw significant boosts. Net sales of Namco Bandai products in Japan increased 7.3 percent year-over-year to ¥406 billion ($4.1B), while sales for the Americas rose 38.3 percent, finishing at ¥33.6 billion ($339M).

The report additionally reveals that Namco Bandai failed to meet shipping targets for some of its key titles. Siliconera notes that Namco Bandai expected to ship 1.7 million units of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 worldwide, but came up short at 1.5 million. The Japan-exclusive RPG Tales of Xillia 2 shipped 500,000, missing its initial target of 650,000 units.

Other big titles for the company include SoulCalibur V, which shipped 1.05 million units worldwide in the fiscal year ending in March, and two entries in its Naruto Shippuden series, which shipped a combined 1.76 million units across all regions.

Namco Bandai's year-end revenues rise despite missing Tekken target originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 09 May 2013 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Namco Bandai released its financial results for the end of its fiscal year today, noting increased earnings in multiple sectors despite missing sales targets for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Tales of Xillia 2.

The company's worldwide net sales grew by 7.3 percent, ending this fiscal year at ¥487 billion (approximately $4.9B), compared to last year's earnings of ¥434 billion. Namco Bandai's net income for the year ending March 31, 2013 was ¥32.4 billion ($327M), a 67.8 percent increase over last year's reported ¥19.3 billion.

Regional sales saw significant boosts. Net sales of Namco Bandai products in Japan increased 7.3 percent year-over-year to ¥406 billion ($4.1B), while sales for the Americas rose 38.3 percent, finishing at ¥33.6 billion ($339M).

The report additionally reveals that Namco Bandai failed to meet shipping targets for some of its key titles. Siliconera notes that Namco Bandai expected to ship 1.7 million units of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 worldwide, but came up short at 1.5 million. The Japan-exclusive RPG Tales of Xillia 2 shipped 500,000, missing its initial target of 650,000 units.

Other big titles for the company include SoulCalibur V, which shipped 1.05 million units worldwide in the fiscal year ending in March, and two entries in its Naruto Shippuden series, which shipped a combined 1.76 million units across all regions.

Namco Bandai's year-end revenues rise despite missing Tekken target originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 09 May 2013 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Katamari Damacy is part of next week's PlayStation Store update. So if on April 30 you see a massive ball of clumped-together games where the PSN should be, you'll know what's up.

The game, first released in North America almost ten years ago, will come to PSN as a PS2 Classic. That means it's playable on PS3, but not Vita. If you need a portable fix of rollable crazy, there's always Touch My Katamari.

Katamari Damacy rolls onto PSN as PS2 Classic next week originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PlayStation Plus subscribers can snag a free copy of PSP (and PS Vita-compatible) fighter Soul Calibur Broken Destiny tomorrow when the PlayStation Store update drops. Soul Calibur Broken Destiny launched on PSP in 2009 with a feature set largely similar to its console predecessor from 2008, Soul Calibur IV.

Curve Studios' port of Mike Bithell's BAFTA-nominated puzzle-platformer Thomas Was Alone makes its debut on PS Vita and PS3 this week. The cross-buy enabled game takes place within a computer mainframe, tasking players with escorting erratic AI entities to their destinations.

Finally, PSN's Spring Fever sale continues unabated, slashing prices across the entire Resident Evil series this week. Highlights include Resident Evil: Director's Cut for $5, Resident Evil 6 for $21 and Resident Evil 4 at $14.

Soul Calibur Broken Destiny free on PS Plus tomorrow, Spring Fever sale continues originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Naruto's latest installment of Ultimate Ninja Storm has shipp(uden)ed 1.2 million units to date, Namco Bandai revealed. According to the company, the franchise's most successful games launch comes courtesy of the PS3 and Xbox 360 brawler, which curiously only reached Japan last week after coming to North America and Europe in early March.

Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 notched tenth place in NPD's rankings in what was a games-packed March. Namco will be confident the shipping figures can translate into more seven-figure sales for the series; as of March 2011, Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 had sold 1.1 million.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Storm 3 ships 1.2 million worldwide originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Naruto's latest installment of Ultimate Ninja Storm has shipp(uden)ed 1.2 million units to date, Namco Bandai revealed. According to the company, the franchise's most successful games launch comes courtesy of the PS3 and Xbox 360 brawler, which curiously only reached Japan last week after coming to North America and Europe in early March.

Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 notched tenth place in NPD's rankings in what was a games-packed March. Namco will be confident the shipping figures can translate into more seven-figure sales for the brawler series; as of March 2011, Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 had sold 1.1 million.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Storm 3 ships 1.2 million worldwide originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apparently in Digital Extremes' game will tell the story of how a very grimy Kirk and Spock have to swab the decks of the Enterprise after the first movie.

Okay, maybe the swabbing the decks thing isn't true, but the Namco Bandai-published "Star Trek" will bridge the 2009 film and this summer's sequel by revealing the classic "Trek" enemies the lizard-like Gorn. According to the new video, the action kicks off with Vulcan refugees opening up a rip in space and hailing the Enterprise for help after unleashing the Gorn who seize a powerful terraforming device. One of the major plot points of the 2009 film was the diaspora among the surviving Vulcans after the destruction of their home planet by Romulan villain Nero (Eric Bana).

The video touts this as an original story although the script by "Gears of War" writer Marianne Krawczyk has shades of "The Wrath of Khan," specifically with the Helios as stand-in for the Genesis device as a game-changing piece of terraforming tech being seized and weaponized by the villains.

"Star Trek" will feature the likenesses and voices of stars Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. Our own Kevin Kelly had a chance to play the game during GDC. You can check out his impressions here.

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SoulCalibur 5 takes on PSN and Xbox Live Games on Demand on April 23, for $20 on each system, direct from Namco Bandai.

SoulCalibur 5 launched in January of 2012, and we found it to be "simultaneously one of the best Soul Calibur games ever made, as well as the worst Soul Calibur game ever made." It makes sense in the context of the review, we promise - that's what all the text above those stars is for.

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SoulCalibur 5 hits up PSN, Games on Demand on April 23 originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A new ratings board listing for a game called 'Tekken Revolution' is something of a false alarm, claims Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada. The rating, which emerged this week on the Australian Classifications Board, points towards a game from Namco Bandai. However, Harada says the listing is a "description mistake" relating to a registration of a new version of Tekken Card Tournament, the free online card-based game.

"I think Someone confuse [sic] Platform or Game Genre," Harada tweeted.

Sounds like Harada isn't talking about a revolution for his fighting series, then. Maybe he's just doing a few revolutions of joy at Card Tournament notching a million downloads just four days after being released.

Tekken Revolution rating a 'new version of Card Tournament,' says producer Harada originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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