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NEWS: Bandai Namco Opens Rights to Pac-Man, '80s Game Properties


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Kaioshin_Sama



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:02 pm Reply with quote
mgosdin wrote:
Kaioshin_Sama wrote:
Very unusual move for a company whose normal policy is something like "NO! MINE!" when it comes to intellectual properties and content control


Yes, when a company goes against type like this they are seeing a problem or potential problem in their business, usually the bottom line. So they shake things up.

In any case hopefully some new fun things will come to the old properties.

Mark Gosdin


I don't think that's it that per se, they're still up there when it comes to 3rd party developers with lots of hit properties and really nobody is a bigger force in anime games still, but they have been pissing people off a little bit of late with their approach to DLC and could probably stand to find some new programmers with fresh ideas.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:18 pm Reply with quote
omiya wrote:

I noticed this (PacMan meets Google Maps):

http://japanese.engadget.com/2015/03/31/google-pac-map-ingress/


Yeah it's about time for Google's annual April Fool's
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mdo7



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 5:54 pm Reply with quote
omiya wrote:
I noticed this (PacMan meets Google Maps):

http://japanese.engadget.com/2015/03/31/google-pac-map-ingress/


And ANN reported on it just now.
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Wandering Samurai



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:58 pm Reply with quote
It does indeed seem like an unusual move by Namco, but I know this decision just didn't come out of nowhere. Since the company intends on approving applications and getting a percentage of the revenue, perhaps they have been on the down a bit so to say. Still, by doing this I'm sure they will be able to promote themselves more through those parties that get the rights.
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