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'Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO' Player Count Drops by 90% Following Explosive Release

The playercount for Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO dropped by around 90% since it was first released amid a variety of complaints and issues.

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The 10 strongest characters in Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero

Dragon Ball Budokai top ten-kaichi.

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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero "saw outstanding sales," and Bandai Namco says roughly 90% of that was from European and North American fans

Dragon Ball, in general, is orders of magnitude bigger outside Japan

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'Tekken 8' Tournament Finalist Disqualified, Banned for Competing in the Wrong Region

Bandai Namco disqualified a Tekken World Tournament finalist and banned him for a year for playing in the wrong region.

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'We apologize for not meeting the community's expectations:' Tekken 8 makes a rare acknowledgement of fan backlash after failing to include a $5 stage in its season pass

It's giving people free currency and pass holders the next stage as an apology.

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Unknown 9: Awakening review: a strong vision is better than following trends

A sleeper hit.

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Bandai Namco Pressures Staff to Quit, Cancels Several Projects, Reports Say

Bandai Namco indirectly laid off workers while it canceled several projects, reports say.

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I visit Cygames, the influential Japanese studio behind Granblue Fantasy: Relink, for an exclusive peek behind the scenes

"This is a company that wants to create great stories and share them, no matter how."

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200 Bandai Namco employees reportedly moved into 'expulsion rooms' designed to bore them into quitting, though the company maintains its innocence

Japan's strict laws surrounding dismissal make "layoffs" look a little different.

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Report: Elden Ring, Dragon Ball publisher Bandai Namco pressures 200 employees to quit with "expulsion rooms" after cancelling a Nintendo game, other projects

A new report claims Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco is pressuring roughly 200 of its staff to leave the company with "expulsion rooms."

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Dragon Ball Sparking Zero isn't even fully out yet and fans are finding additional DLC online

Dragon Ball Sparking Zero: Martial Arts Pack has leaked

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Bandai Namco says sorry for disqualifying a top Tekken World Tour contender whose country wasn't listed among the 189 eligible options

It's not like China is easy to miss.

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Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero's Great Ape Vegeta is wrecking players so hard even Bandai Namco is memeing about it: "This monke got hands"

Everybody's reliving their childhood Budokai Tenkaichi trauma

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Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero review

In a tournament featuring the best Dragon Ball games, Sparking! Zero would come out on top.

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As Tekken 8's microtransactions face renewed criticism after $5 stage DLC, one dev explains just how expensive it is to make a fighting game in 2024

"Tekken 8 on paper is an astonishingly risky bet"

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Early Dragon Ball Sparking Zero stream and hours of spoilers get spirit bombed out of existence by Bandai Namco

Bamco has its eyes peeled

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PC Gamer at Tokyo Game Show 2024 Day 4 report: Capcom, Konami, and SNK's booths in focus

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Silent Hill 2, Monster Hunter Wilds, Fatal Fury and more

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PC Gamer at Tokyo Game Show 2024 Day 3 report: Square Enix, Bandai Namco and Sega booth deep dives

Here's what Bandai Namco, Sega, and Square Enix are showing off at TGS 2024

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PC Gamer at Tokyo Game Show 2024 Day 1 report: PC gaming on the rise and a strong indie game showing

TGS 2024 has been a good one for PC gamers.

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Bandai Namco Gives a Sneak Peek of Heihachi's 'Tekken 8' Return

Once believed to have died, Heihachi Mishima is set to return to Tekken as a playable character for Tekken 8.

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Heihachi returns to Tekken 8 in gloriously brutal fashion

Tekken 8’s upcoming DLC brings back the legendary Heihachi Mishima in with a gloriously over-the-top fashion.

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Unknown 9: Awakening feels like a AA videogame from the late 2000s, and so far that isn't a bad thing

Linear singleplayer adventures never left us.

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Hands-on with Unknown 9: Awakening - Unreal Engine injects life into Namco's ambitious transmedia gamble

I was left wanting more (lucky there's a comic, podcast and novel too).

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Elden Ring DLC's new 1.14 balance patch update hits Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss with nerfs we all knew were coming, and whacks one of the best PvP builds, too

Elden Ring's new 1.14 update nerfs the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC's final boss, tweaks various weapons and spells, and more. Here are the patch notes.

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I played some Little Nightmares 3, and it's the best horror about being lost and tiny in an unfathomable hellscape since Little Nightmares 2

This time with coop.

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