North American Dragonball License Goes to Namco Bandai

DoctorFinger · 07-03-2009, 09:02 AM

Namco Bandai has acquired the North American rights to publish the Dragonball family of games. The license had been held by Atari, and the loss is likely another big blow to the floundering publisher.

While the deal technically begins in 2010 and runs for five years, Namco Bandai has also acquired the rights to a trio of Dragonball games scheduled for release this year. Dragon Ball: Raging Blast for the 360 and PS3, Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo for the Wii, and Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans for the DS will all come out this year in North America under the Namco Bandai name.

Source - Gamasutra

Heretic Machine · 07-03-2009, 09:17 AM

Sounds like good news, actually. Assuming that Atari was responsible for the iffy localizations, anyway.

Xerxes · 07-03-2009, 02:05 PM

Seems like a perfect fit. Hell, Atari and Banamco seem almost interchangeable.

Heretic Machine · 07-03-2009, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Xerxes

Seems like a perfect fit. Hell, Atari and Banamco seem almost interchangeable.

Well, Bandai Namco was always the publisher for these games in Japan anyway, so it isn't surprising to see them pluck the US license out of the water as Atari sinks deeper and deeper into the abyss.

Purple Santa · 07-05-2009, 06:58 PM

Well NB isn't going anywhere for a while. Nice pick up of a license for them. Atari, well...should we start looking at a countdown till they go under?

07-03-2009, 09:02 AM	#1
DoctorFinger Senior News Editor Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: New York City Posts: 5,561 Blog Entries: 10	North American Dragonball License Goes to Namco Bandai Namco Bandai has acquired the North American rights to publish the Dragonball family of games. The license had been held by Atari, and the loss is likely another big blow to the floundering publisher. While the deal technically begins in 2010 and runs for five years, Namco Bandai has also acquired the rights to a trio of Dragonball games scheduled for release this year. Dragon Ball: Raging Blast for the 360 and PS3, Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo for the Wii, and Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans for the DS will all come out this year in North America under the Namco Bandai name. Source - Gamasutra

07-03-2009, 09:17 AM	#2
Heretic Machine A *** in the machine. Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 3,336 Blog Entries: 2	Sounds like good news, actually. Assuming that Atari was responsible for the iffy localizations, anyway. __________________ Steam Name: Heretic Machine [CoG] PSN: Heretic-Machine Current Interests: PS3 games, WoW, D&D 2nd Ed.

07-03-2009, 02:05 PM	#3
Xerxes On Saccatical Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: HTX Posts: 7,595 Blog Entries: 8	Seems like a perfect fit. Hell, Atari and Banamco seem almost interchangeable. __________________ What Would Xerxes Do?! - Coming Soon. 360: Xerxes PSN: ArmoredXerxes Wii: "My life requires busting faggoty assed bitches like yourself in the fucking face." -Zeal the original Game Boy was the size of a VCR -pronounconnoun

07-05-2009, 06:58 PM	#5
Purple Santa Snow Zombies!!! Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: North Pole Posts: 7,639 Blog Entries: 1	Well NB isn't going anywhere for a while. Nice pick up of a license for them. Atari, well...should we start looking at a countdown till they go under? __________________ Gamertag: Purple Santa PSN: Purple Santa Steam ID:PurpleSanta

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