
Bandai Visual joins the legion of companies to suffer embarrassing hacks, having been forced to take a number of its sites offline as a result.
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An 8-year-old girl has won the Japan’s junior Gundam World Cup and will be representing her country at the world finals, creating quite a stir with her diorama of a mobile suit blasting and smashing various tanks.
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Namco Bandai Games have announced that Tales Studio, the studio responsible for producing its popular line of Tales RPGs, is to be disbanded and merged into Namco Bandai proper.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Oct 28, 2011 10:59 JST
- Tags: Beach, Cosplay, Gravure, Idol, IdolM@ster, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Namco Bandai


PS3 gravure idol simulator IdolMaster 2 G4U (Gravure For You) is proving extremely popular with fans of the franchise (perhaps something to do with it featuring young girls in swimwear and school uniforms), and has since been hailed as the most “ero-kawaii” title ever to hit the PS3.
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Tales of Xillia has proven a major hit, shifting over half a million copies in its first week and already securing the title of fastest selling Tales title ever.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Aug 18, 2011 13:23 JST
- Tags: DLC, Image Gallery, Namco Bandai, Oppai, PS3, RPG, Tales of Xillia, Tales Series

Tales fans are hailing the upcoming Tales of Xillia as the sexiest Tales RPG to date, with some exceptionally revealing (for a Tales title at any rate) character designs and costumes on display…
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Namco Bandai has announced it will finally be porting IdolMaster to the PS3, the first time the title has reached the PlayStation after having long been renowned as the mainstay of Microsoft’s few Japanese Xbox exclusives.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Mar 3, 2011 01:56 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Disgaea, DS, IdolM@ster, Marketing, Namco Bandai, Otaku, PS3, Statistics

Japanese gamers have been presented with yet another perverse week of game sales – this time with IdolMaster 2 bombing with a pathetic 36,000 sales, but still better than the pathetic reception top PS3 blockbuster Killzone 3 received, with only 26,000.
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IdolMaster 2 has been released, with otaku cries of joy swiftly turning into wails of anguish with the revelation that it includes events involving the girls variously using their breasts to warm the producer’s food, having sex with the boss to advance their careers, and most shockingly of all, that Ami has a boyfriend.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Feb 12, 2011 22:11 JST
- Tags: Namco Bandai, Ports, PS3, Rankings, RPG, Square Enix, Tales Series, Wii, Xbox 360

Ranking the best selling Japanese RPGs of the current generation of consoles provides evidence of some less than inspiring trends in gameplay and production values, amongst what is often considered the Japanese gaming industry’s flagship genre.
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Namco Bandai has announced its most recent Tales “mothership” title Tales of Graces F is set for a US release.
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One of Ore no Imouto Portable‘s many endings has been generating waves amongst fans of the series, involving as it does the popular and charming Ayase.
The nature of the ending should be obvious from the below image:
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