Bandai Namco Entertainment

What Bandai Namco Entertainment is

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. is the Japanese game publishing and development company at the centre of the Bandai Namco group's entertainment business. Its own corporate overview states that the company works across network contents, home console games, Asobi entertainment and licensing, and its site describes the business as centred on games and built around intellectual property, delivering home console games, network contents and licensed entertainment to players worldwide.

The corporate site names Nao Udagawa as President and CEO of Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. and sets out the group's stated purpose of sharing dreams, fun and inspiration. The company's own pages describe its output as spanning home console games, network contents, Asobi entertainment and a licensing business, with intellectual property at the centre of its activity.

Corporate history and details

The company's corporate overview page gives the following registered facts. The company name is Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., the date of establishment given is June 1, 1955, which the page attributes to former NAMCO LTD., the predecessor of the current company. Capital is stated as 10.0 billion yen and the number of employees as 835, excluding temporary employees. The headquarters address given is Bandai Namco Mirai-Kenkyusho, 5-37-8 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo.

The company's corporate profile document records the 2015 name change, when the business adopted the name Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. under a stated concept of expanding its business domain, and the move of its headquarters to Shiba in Minato-ku in February 2016. The overview page itself notes that the establishment date refers to the predecessor company rather than to the current legal entity.

Publishing Elden Ring and Dark Souls III

Bandai Namco Entertainment's own site describes Elden Ring as a dark fantasy title published in Japan by FromSoftware Inc. and published in all other regions by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The game's official Bandai Namco page presents it as an open-world action role-playing game with a world created by Hidetaka Miyazaki of FromSoftware and George R. R. Martin, released across Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and PC, with an expansion titled Shadow of the Erdtree.

Dark Souls III appears on the same official Bandai Namco site with FromSoftware, Inc. named as developer and the copyright line crediting Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. alongside FromSoftware. Both Elden Ring and Dark Souls III are listed in our database with Bandai Namco Entertainment as publisher.

How the company is organised

Bandai Namco Entertainment operates as part of the wider Bandai Namco group, whose stated purpose is given on the company's site as sharing dreams, fun and inspiration with people around the world. The company's own description of its business places intellectual property at the core and describes its activity as delivering content and entertainment across games, network services and licensing.

Beyond publishing, the company's corporate overview lists home console games and network contents among its business fields, alongside Asobi entertainment and licensing. Its own site names Taiko no Tatsujin, Tekken and Elden Ring among the titles it highlights to players in different markets.

The company also describes its activities as extending to network contents and licensed entertainment products, with intellectual property at the core of the business. Its site states that the company's leadership is headed by Nao Udagawa as President and CEO, and that it operates as part of the wider Bandai Namco group under the group's stated purpose of sharing dreams, fun and inspiration.

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