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  • The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Gaming, PC games, RPG, Namco, The Witcher 2 0

    The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings review

    4.0 REVIEW RPG of the year? 27 May 2011 21:22 GMT

    By anyone’s standards, The Witcher 2 is the best fantasy RPG of the last few years. It is more polished than Dragon Age, more expansive than Dragon Age 2 and in a different league to Risen, Two Worlds II and Gothic 4. It has a strong story, a...

  • Ridge Racer 3D. Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo, Gaming, Ridge Racer 3D, Namco 0

    Ridge Racer 3D review

    3.5 REVIEW A top launch game for the 3DS? 1 April 2011 17:33 GMT

    If there’s any racing game series that deserves to be called ubiquitous then Ridge Racer definitely fits the bill. Sure, EA rolls out Need for Speed these days to just about anything with a processor and a screen, but Ridge Racer has now appeared...

  • Nintendo 3DS: Ridge Racer 3D hands-on

    Nintendo 3DS: Ridge Racer 3D hands-on

    HANDS-ON We love a bit of drift, we do 25 March 2011 17:00 GMT

    In the second of our hands-ons with 3DS games on the console's launch day, after PES 2011 3D, we're looking at Ridge Racer 3D, the latest release in the incredibly successful arcade driving franchise, and one that Pocket-lint has been looking forward...

  • Splatterhouse returns to rile those against violent video games

    Splatterhouse returns to rile those against violent video games

    Is this Alan Titchmarsh and Daily Mail's new video game target? 26 March 2010 10:55 GMT

    Splatterhouse, the classic Namco gore fest from the late Eighties is making a comeback on the Xbox 360 and PS3, 22 years after it first launched, something that is likely to be very much unwelcomed by gardener Alan Titchmarsh and the Daily Mail.

    Considerably...

  • Namco Bandai brings multiplayer to Pac-Man mobile

    Namco Bandai brings multiplayer to Pac-Man mobile

    Get your friends to play as the ghosts 5 December 2008 17:07 GMT

    Namco Bandai has updated its Pac-Man mobile game to include two new elements - a multiplayer mode and an online high-score table.

    Optimised for a new generation of handsets, mobile users will, for the first time ever, be able to wirelessly...

  • Namco Bandai announces Family Ski sequel. Gaming, Nintendo Wii, Sports games, Namco, Bandai, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, BBFC, PS2 0

    Namco Bandai announces Family Ski sequel

    Shred up the slopes with a snowboard too 3 December 2008 13:43 GMT

    Namco Bandai has announced it will be releasing a sequel to its popular Wii game Family Ski, but this time, snowboarding will be added into the mix as well.

    Appropriately called Family Ski & Snowboard, the sequel is planned for European release...

  • Darth Vader, Yoda join cast of Soulcalibur IV. Gaming, PS3, Xbox 360, Namco, Star Wars 0

    Darth Vader, Yoda join cast of Soulcalibur IV

    Use the force... 10 January 2008 14:23 GMT

    Namco has announced that the latest version of the arcade classic Soul Calibur will give gamers the ability to duel Darth Vader and Yoda from Star Wars.

    Soul Calibur IV, which will be available on the PS3 and Xbox 360 will feature the characters...

  • 360 to see the first new Pac-Man mazes in 26 years. Gaming, Xbox 360, Namco, Microsoft 0

    360 to see the first new Pac-Man mazes in 26 years

    The all-time classic of classics returns to Xbox Live 6 June 2007 12:41 GMT

    1981 was the year… a time of flares, punks, high unemployment and, of course, Pac-Man.

    Well, a lot has changed in the last two decades but returning to give us a taste of what we’ve been missing, or what many of the younger gamers never knew,...

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