Bandai Namco Entertainment: History and Key Facts

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. (BNEI) is a Japanese multinational video game publisher and the video game branch of the wider Bandai Namco Holdings group. Founded in 2006 as Namco Bandai Games Inc., it is the successor to Namco's home and arcade video game business, as well as Bandai's former equivalent division. Development operations were spun off into a new company in 2012, Namco Bandai Studios, now called Bandai Namco Studios.

Bandai Namco Entertainment owns several multi-million video game franchises, including Pac-Man, Tekken, Soulcalibur, Tales, Ace Combat, Digimon,Taiko no Tatsujin, The Idolmaster, Ridge Racer, Dark Souls, Gundam, .hack, and Little Nightmares. Pac-Man serves as the official mascot of the company.

The company also owns the licenses to several Japanese media franchises, such as Weekly Shōnen Jump (Dragon Ball, One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, My Hero Academia), Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Sword Art Online, and the Ultra Series.

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