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Namco's Japan-exclusive shoot 'em up Blast Off is coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop and PS4 on September 26th, as reported by Famitsu. Originally released in arcades back in 1989, Blast Off is the sequel to Bosconian, which was launched 8 years earlier in 1981. It was developed by N.H...

This week's Arcade Archives release has been announced as Namco's 1993 fighting game Knuckle Heads (thanks @ohfivepro/Famitsu). The game will be released on August 15th across PS4 and Nintendo Switch, in Japan, with versions expected to launch shortly after on certain international storefronts...

If you're a fan of the Pac-Man World series, you may have heard of Pac-Man Adventures in the past. This was an abandoned project that was being considered inside Namco in 2004, which was set to feature artwork from the legendary animator Don Bluth, before being rebooted under Blitz Games as...

Last month, the feature phone preservationist RockmanCosmo announced that a group of individuals had managed to find and extract the files for Katamari Damacy-Kun and its sequel Oi Katamari Damacy-Kun from an i-mode compatible phone. And it now seems that they've made some encouraging strides to...

As you'll know if you read our earlier news story about the legendary developer Seichi Ishii, Tobal No. 1 was very nearly a Chrono Trigger fighting game. Speaking during the same interview with 4Gamer, Ishii was asked about returning to his native Japan from Canada, where he currently resides...

Alongside Anime Expo 2024 this week, Bandai Namco hosted its 'Summer Showcase' for 2024. The main show and pre-show were packed with all sorts of anime-related announcements, and many of the games featured are coming to the Switch. While the majority of games and release dates have already been...

Hamster has unveiled this week's Arcade Archives release as Star Luster VS. — the adaptation of Namco's 1985 Famicom game for Nintendo's VS. System arcade unit. The game will be released on Thursday, June 13th, and will be available to buy for both the Nintendo Switch and PS4. Star Luster, in...

The Tamagotchi virtual pet is one of the defining toys of the 1990s, and following its 1996 launch had managed to sell a staggering 20 million units worldwide by spring 1998. However, as reported by Automaton West, the bubble burst pretty quickly, and soon Bandai was seeing stock being returned...

Can you imagine a world where magazines and websites were forbidden from reviewing games or sharing hints, tips and cheats related to those games? It might sound far-fetched today, given that we've got decades of video game press coverage to look back on and entire websites devoted to cracking...

Hamster has revealed that the next Namco game coming to Arcade Archives will be the vertical shoot-em-up F/A (otherwise known as Fighter & Attacker). The announcement was made during today's livestream on Hamster's YouTube channel (1:41:36), with the game being planned to start distribution...