Bandai Namco Gives D3 Green Light

Bandai Namco has given its the recently purchased D3Publisher the green-light to publish various Japanese games in the US. D3Publisher currently has the Japanese arm's latest DS RPG Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow on its release list for this year, and will also handle the US release of Japanese smash-hit Monster Hunter-a-like, God Eater on PlayStation Portable later this year. Both of these games are apparently going to be the start of a regular occurrence at D3 - games that Namco Hometek has not exactly passed on, but cannot cover due to other priorities.

The opportunity is definitely there with Namco. They’ve come to us quite a few times and said, ‘Hey our bandwidth is a little bit tight right now. We want to get this game out. Are you guys interested in like, you know, working on it?’ Like God Eater, which we announced. That’s exactly the kind of opportunity. It’s not something they [ Bandai Namco ] said ‘You know, we're not going to bring it out over here.’ It was more, ‘Hey, here’s an opportunity for you guys. We’re kind of tapped on our QA, so if you guys want to do it here you go.’

- Joe Fletcher, Associate Producer.