Bandai Namco Entertainment has announced plans to assimilate Bandai Namco Online via a merger on April 1, 2025, the publisher announced today.
The online spin-off company was established 15 years ago and has been responsible for a number of titles including Gundam Evolution and Blue Protocol. The former has already been shut down, while Blue Protocol is set to close its doors on January 18, 2025 in Japan, having never received a US and EU release.
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Bandai Namco Entertaiment will also assume control of Idolise Seven, SD Gundam Operations, and Gundam Tribe following its absorption of Bandai Namco Online.
Bandai Namco Entertainment announced last month that it will publish the debut title from Rebel Wolves, a development studio featuring a number of individuals who worked on the critically acclaimed Witcher franchise. The project is known as the Dawnwalker Saga, and is a fantasy-RPG set in medieval Europe.
That same month, it was reported on Bloomberg that Bandai Namco had scrapped a number of projects, with those involve in the titles left with nothing to do, therefore pressuring them to resigning so that the publisher won’t have to offer severance pay.
[Source – Gematsu]