NAMCO BANDAI GAMES AMERICA INC. AND CODEMASTERS^® ANNOUNCE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT FOR 2014 LINE UP 

NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. to Distribute Codemasters 2014 Portfolio Including Pillar Brands 

SAN JOSE Calif., (March 18, 2014) – Leading publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today proudly announced a one year distribution agreement with the global video game developer and publisher Codemasters^®. The agreement covers physical distribution of the entire Codemasters 2014 portfolio across the Americas, plus select digital distribution channels.

The partnership is an extension of NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.’s relationship with Codemasters, established in 2010 for distribution rights throughout European territories. The new agreement will now include select digital distribution channels in addition to physical distribution throughout the Americas and Europe. All major forthcoming games will be published by Codemasters through its Codemasters Racing label, including yet to be announced titles.

“Codemasters has a long history of developing excellent racing titles; we’re excited to welcome their products to our product line-up,” said Chris Gilbert, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. “Motorsports resonates with audiences in every corner of the globe, we’re ready to wave the green flag and deliver this excitement to gamers in the Americas.”

For more information about NAMCO BANDAI Games and its entire line up, please visit www.namcobandaigames.com. For more details on Codemasters, visit www.codemasters.com.

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About NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.

NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., part of NAMCO BANDAI Holdings Inc., is a leading global publisher and developer of interactive content — including all major video game consoles, iOS, mobile and online.  The company is known for creating and publishing many of the industry’s top video game franchises, including PAC-MAN®, TEKKEN®, SOULCALIBUR®, NARUTO™, NARUTO SHIPPUDEN™, Dragon Ball®, GALAGA®, RIDGE RACER® and ACE COMBAT®.  More information about the company and its products can be found at www.namcobandaigames.com or www.facebook.com/namco

About Codemasters

Codemasters, the award winning video game developer and publisher, has a 25-year heritage. With titles distributed globally, Codemasters is a leading developer and publisher of driving and racing entertainment games including the DiRT, GRID and official FORMULA ONE series of games including the BAFTA award-winning F1 2010, F1 2011, F1 2012 and F1 2013. Codemasters employs over 500 people and operates multiple development studios from its Warwickshire HQ and Birmingham sites in the UK with a further art studio based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Codemasters is a winner of the coveted Grand Prix Award from the Develop Industry Excellence Awards, an award bestowed on the company felt by Develop to have contributed the most to the games medium in recent times. In March 2010, Reliance Big Entertainment Ltd. (RBEL), a part of India’s Reliance ADA group, acquired a 50 per cent shareholding in the company, alongside existing investor, Balderton Capital, the leading European venture capital firm. For more information on Codemasters’ product portfolio, please visit www.codemasters.com. Join in the conversation with @codemasters on Twitter or Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/codemasters.

Press Release © 2014 NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.  All rights reserved.

VLAMBEER AND DEVOLVER DIGITAL PULL THE WHEELS UP; LUFTRAUSERS TAKES OFF TO DEFEND US ALL

– LUFTRAUSERS out now for $9.99 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PC, Mac and Linux –

Utrecht, The Netherlands – Independent game studio Vlambeer (Ridiculous Fishing, Nuclear Throne) and freedom-loving publisher Devolver Digital today announced the highly-anticipated, long-awaited aerial dogfighting game LUFTRAUSERS is available today on the PlayStation Network for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, and for PC, Mac, and Linux through Steam and Humble for $9.99 at luftrausers.com via your modern internet.

The super stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS is calling all recruits to jump into the cockpit and take on more than 100 challenging missions in an epic battle for liberty and glory. Brave gamers all over the world can choose from over 125 combinations of weapons, bodies and propulsion systems on the quest to rise above the rest and become the best-damned rauser pilot of all time.

“LUFTRAUSERS may seem like a simple arcade game at first look but there is over $500 million in proprietary RausHard technology put into that game,” said Devolver Digital CFO Fork Parker. “Unfortunately, this means we need to sell 50 million copies of LUFTRAUSERS to break even so, you know, spread the word.”

“Screen shake makes everything better,” uttered JW Nijman, 50% of developer Vlambeer.

Those brave enough to go head-to-head with the best rauser pilots can go to luftrausers.com for more information and train on the original LUFTRAUSER web game.

For all the latest propaganda/news about LUFTRAUSERS, follow @Vlambeer and @DevolverDigital on the Twittergram.

Unity 5 Announced at GDC 2014, Pre-order Begins

San Francisco, CA – March 18, 2014 – Unity Technologies unveils Unity 5, the next generation of the award-winning Unity multiplatform engine and development tools, during its Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Unity 5 brings a wealth of new capabilities and features enabling all developers, from the smallest indie teams to the largest studios, to create amazing games and interactive experiences, and painlessly deploy them to almost any platform. Unity 5 is available for pre-order from the Unity Store and includes access to Unity 4 and all its remaining updates.

Unity 5 is a massive update to the Unity Engine, including features such as the Enlighten real-time lighting system and physically-based shaders that provide the power to render stunning high-quality characters, environments, lighting, and effects. Workflow efficiency increased dramatically due to the new unified shader architecture, in-editor real-time lightmap previews, and improved asset bundling. Audio designers will find a completely overhauled audio system including the new Audio Mixer for creating dynamic soundscapes and effects.

Unity Technologies is committed to creating opportunities for the massive Unity community of developers to find success. Therefore Unity 5.0 will see the launch of the integrated Unity Cloud ad-sharing network for painless cross-promotion of mobile games, and an addition to Unity’s unrivaled multiplatform support with the introduction of WebGL deployment.

“Every time we ship a new version of Unity, we’re looking to empower developers with technology that’s more powerful and easier to apply than ever before,” said David Helgason, CEO, Unity Technologies. “With the huge additions of physically-based shading, lighting workflows, a new platform, and a new built-in method for user acquisition, we’re improving Unity dramatically from both a creative and business perspective.”

Unity 5 includes a host of new abilities, including the following marquee features:

Physically-based Shading

Unity 5 will launch with a new built-in physically-based shader system. It is designed to cover a wide variety of real-world materials under all lighting situations and includes a vastly improved workflow, from the art pipeline all the way to the UI. Unity 5 also introduces full deferred shading and baked reflection probes for realistic environment-based specular highlights.

Real-time Global Illumination with Enlighten

Unity has entered into a partnership with Geomerics to integrate Enlighten, their industry-leading real-time global illumination technology, into Unity 5. Enlighten is the only real-time global illumination technology optimized to deliver fully dynamic lighting in game on today’s PCs, consoles, and mobile platforms. Animate lights, emissive material properties and control the environment lighting in real-time. Enlighten’s technology also brings dramatic workflow improvements, enabling artists and designers to work directly in Unity 5’s editor to create realistic and engaging visuals for all game styles. The technology is the lighting solution of choice for some of today’s most advanced and best-selling titles.

Real-time Lightmap Previews

In partnership with Imagination Technologies, Unity 5 will be the first-ever development platform to ship with in-editor real-time lightmap previews based on Imagination’s ground-breaking PowerVR Ray Tracing technology. This exciting addition allows for near instantaneous feedback from changes to global illumination lightmaps by displaying an accurate preview in the editor’s scene view of how lighting will look in the final game. With this technology, artists can continue to iterate and refine the look of a level while final lightmaps update and bake in the background, dramatically decreasing the amount of time needed to make artistic adjustments to scenes.

Audio Overhaul

Unity’s entire audio pipeline has been rewritten to be more efficient and flexible. The first big feature included with the overhaul is an Audio Mixer designed to allow highly complex real-time re-routing and effects scenarios. Designers can take snapshots of mixer settings for dynamic transitions between sound profiles during gameplay.

WebGL Add-on Early Access

Unity’s multiplatform functionality remains one of its most valuable aspects and Unity Technologies is happy to announce its collaboration with Mozilla to bring WebGL and asm.js support to Unity. Starting with Unity 5.0, developers will be able to get early access to Unity’s WebGL add-on to begin creating interactive experiences for plugin-free play made possible in supported modern browsers. Attendees at GDC can stop by the Unity booth to see a demo of Madfinger Games’ Dead Trigger 2 running on WebGL.

Unity Cloud

Unity 5 will also see the launch of the Unity Cloud cross-promotion network, enabling mobile game developers to run full screen interstitial ads in their mobile games, as well as exchange ad units with other Unity developers, to unlock the combined power of over half a billion mobile game installs for free.

Furthermore, Unity 5 introduces many other additions and improvements:

• Unity is now 64-bit
• New multithreaded job scheduler
• NVIDIA PhysX 3.3
• Easier and incremental building of Asset Bundles
• New 2D physics effectors
• SpeedTree Integration
• NavMesh improvements
• Mecanim StateMachine Behaviours
• Loading optimizations
• And many other improvements

Unity 5 is available now for pre-order from the Unity store (https://store.unity3d.com/). Those who pre-order Unity Pro 5 will also receive Unity Pro 4. Unity 4.6, which will be the last major update in the Unity 4 cycle, will include the much anticipated overhauled GUI system.

Unity Technologies is demonstrating Unity 5 at the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Convention Center, booth #1402.

About Unity Technologies

Unity Technologies is the creator of Unity, a flexible and high-performance development platform used to make creative and intelligent interactive 3D and 2D experiences. The “author once, deploy everywhere” capability ensures developers can publish to all of the most popular platforms. Unity Technologies boasts a thriving community of over 2.5 million developers including large publishers, indie studios, students and hobbyists. To remain at the forefront of innovation, Unity Technologies tirelessly re-invests in its award-winning 3D and 2D development tools and democratization initiatives, such as the Asset Store digital content marketplace, Unity Cloud services, and Unity Games publishing and distribution division. Unity Technologies is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices located worldwide. For more information, visit: http://unity3d.com.

About Geomerics

Geomerics Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of ARM Holdings PLC, delivering cutting-edge graphics technology on today’s PCs, game consoles and mobile platforms. Geomerics’ Enlighten is the industry’s most advanced dynamic lighting technology. Enlighten has helped defined the look of some of the industry’s most iconic titles, including Battlefield 4, Need for Speed Rivals, Eve Online, Quantum Conundrum, and many more. Enlighten has been licensed by many of the top developers in the industry, including EA DICE, EA Bioware, Take 2, CCP, and Square Enix. Geomerics has developed a reputation for the excellence of both its technology and its support. Visit www.geomerics.com for more information.

About Imagination’s PowerVR Ray Tracing

Imagination’s PowerVR graphics processors (GPUs) are the de facto standard for mobile and embedded graphics, having shipped in over a billion devices to date. PowerVR Ray Tracing technology represents the next disruptive step in the evolution of graphics for a broad range of consumer and mobile platforms, as well as gaming consoles and mainstream gaming PCs, workstations, and servers. The breakthrough technology enables more immersive games and apps with real life dynamic lighting models that enable effects such as dynamic soft shadows, realistic reflections and transparencies, and global-lighting, previously unachievable in a mobile form factor. PowerVR Ray Tracing can be used alongside existing mainstream graphics techniques, allowing developers to preserve the vast majority of the investment that they have already made in their game engines and tools while enabling them to bring a new level of quality and enhanced realism to their apps and games.

About Mozilla

Mozilla has been a pioneer and advocate for the Web for more than a decade. We create and promote open standards that enable innovation and advance the Web as a platform for all. Today, half a billion people worldwide use Mozilla Firefox to discover, experience and connect to the Web on computers, tablets, and mobile phones. For more information please visit mozilla.org.

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Unity and all other product names are trademarks of Unity Technologies or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Geomerics and Enlighten are trademarks of Geomerics Limited. Imagination Technologies and OpenRL are trademarks of Imagination Technologies Limited. Mozilla and Firefox are trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation.  All other product names and trademarks belong to their respective holders.

MAX: THE CURSE OF BROTHERHOOD OUT APRIL 9 FOR XBOX 360 & APRIL 15 FOR PC

Danish development studio Press Play is pleased to announce that its Xbox One launch title Max: The Curse of Brotherhood will launch on Wednesday, April 9, for Xbox 360 and on Tuesday, April 15, for PC via Steam.

“We are really proud of releasing what we believe will be one of the best-looking games on XBLA. Originally, Max: the Curse of Brotherhood was developed for Xbox 360. Late in development we couldn’t turn down the opportunity to reposition the game as an Xbox One launch title. Since we shipped the Xbox One version, we have worked to make what we believe is the best possible Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game,” explained Creative Director Mikkel Thorsted.

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is a story-driven adventure filled with action-packed platforming and creative puzzle-solving. Armed with only a Magic Marker, Max must confront evil at every turn in a hostile and fantastical world in order to save his kid brother, Felix. With five magical powers and twenty levels set in seven unique worlds, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is an adventure for players of all ages.

Rated E (Everyone) by the ESRB and 12 by the PEGI, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood will be available starting Wednesday April 9th on Xbox 360 and Tuesday April 15th on PC via Steam for $14.99 / €14.99 / £11.99.

ABOUT PRESS PLAY

Press Play is a multi-award winning game development studio located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 2006 by Rune Dittmer, Ole Teglbjærg, and Mikkel Thorsted, Press Play has created numerous games but is best known for its original IP: Tentacles, Max and the Magic Marker, and Max: The Curse of Brotherhood. The Studio currently has several unannounced original IP in development. In 2012, Press Play joined Microsoft Studios in a light-touch acquisition, allowing Press Play to retain full creative control of its projects. As always, Press Play creates original mechanics-driven game experiences for geeks, moms, and other extraordinary people.

ROADHOUSE INTERACTIVE LAUNCHES PUBLISHING SERVICES DIVISION AND
ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF CHUNKY PIG

VANCOUVER, BC – March 18, 2014 – Roadhouse Interactive Limited has announced the launch of its publishing services division. This new division will partner and collaborate with leading developers from around the world to help them plan and implement every facet of live game operations. This new division will be led by the team from the newly acquired Chunky Pig, an industry-leading digital marketing company. The marketing and distribution experience of the Chunky Pig team will perfectly complement the game design and service expertise of Roadhouse Interactive.

“Chunky Pig has brought its marketing expertise to multiple console, mobile and free-to-play games. Bringing together our combined experience in developing and publishing was the natural next step in growing our business. With this newly launched business unit, Roadhouse Interactive can now offer a complete suite from publishing services to game development,” said James Hursthouse, CEO of Roadhouse Interactive.

“Roadhouse Interactive is building a track record of great game franchises, including the chart-topping FRS Ski Cross and upcoming Warhammer® 40,000™: Carnage. The company has made a significant investment in building backend platform technology and expertise to meet the demands of publishing its own titles. With the launch of our publishing services division, we are sharing this expertise and resources to other game companies,” said Nick Malaperiman, the newly-minted Head of Publishing at Roadhouse Interactive.

The publishing services group offers developers proven live game management services while enabling them to retain control or ownership of their IP. This developer-friendly approach to publishing has already attracted clients such as D3 Publisher (US), Boomlagoon (Finland) and Bloobuzz (Canada). Roadhouse Interactive provides a suite of marketing tools for user acquisition, KPI management, monetization, A/B testing as well as social media and community management. Roadhouse Interactive also provides business intelligence analysis as well as access to selected ad networks and other SDKs within its analytics platform to further reduce overhead costs for development studios.

Game developers interested in partnering with Roadhouse Interactive can contact the team at www.roadhouseinteractive.com.

About Roadhouse Interactive Limited
Roadhouse Interactive Limited is a Vancouver-based developer and operator of tablet, smartphone and browser games. Roadhouse Interactive’s management team is responsible for some of the most well known game franchises of the past twenty-five years and continues to grow industry-leading production, development and live game operations expertise at Roadhouse Interactive. Projects include Warhammer 40,000: Carnage, FRS Ski Cross™, Trophy Bingo and Family Guy Online. For more information about Roadhouse Interactive, visit www.roadhouseinteractive.com.

About Chunky Pig Digital
Chunky Pig Digital was founded in 2011 in Vancouver as a Mobile Marketing Consultancy with a heavy focus on mobile games. In the course of two and a half years Chunky Pig quickly attracted top game and app developers in Canada and the UK, launching more than a dozen mobile products. The company also built several apps for clients for the iOS and Google Play stores. Founder Nick Malaperiman had previously built a games business in China, lead Nokia’s games marketing team and launched $500M worth of products for EA Sports. For more information about Chunky Pig, visit www.chunkypig.com.

NEW ICONIC MONUMENTS ARRIVE IN ANNO® ONLINE

Players can now build an Amphitheater, Imperial Cathedral and Castle to expedite island development

Mounments Video Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIicqubqzcM

London, UK – March 18, 2014 – Today, Ubisoft® and Blue Byte® announced that ANNO® Online, the city-building browser game, has added additional Monuments to its Tech Tree.  Following the introduction of the Library and the Botanical Garden, three new customizable Monuments, the Amphitheater, Imperial Cathedral and Castle, each with various boosts to expedite island development, are now available. 

Three exclusive Monuments

The Amphitheater is the first new Monument players will be able to access. It becomes available after players unlock the Library and obtain the necessary knowledge points to build it. Players can also equip the Amphitheater with a loge to increase the number of inhabitants per building and add an arch to expand the influence area around the Monument. 

Both the Imperial Cathedral and the Castle are unlocked when players acquire the Library, the Amphitheater and the necessary knowledge points. Both Monuments increase the population capacity in each building. The Cathedral’s population bonus increases with the addition of a crossing tower and its influence spreads with the addition of a bell. The Castle’s population bonus grows when players add a cistern and its influence crows with the additional of a tocsin. 

Reworking of Absolute Needs

Public buildings are now called “attractions,” and the more attractions that influence a building, the more people will move in to a residence. Affecting all residence levels equally, each attraction type grants a different amount of additional inhabitants per building. These changes are supported by new cutting-edge graphics and they give players more opportunities to personalise their island.

Players can create their account and jump directly into the game through:  http://www.anno-online.com/

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Stronghold Kingdoms Hits 3,000,000 Players

London, UK – 18^th March 2014 – Firefly Studios has just announced that their popular MMORTS Stronghold Kingdoms has attracted more than three million players since launch. For more than two years Kingdoms has ranked in the top 10 most popular free-to-play games on Steam and in the top 50 games overall by current player count:

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

With more than 3000 games available on Steam, the enduring popularity of Stronghold Kingdoms is a remarkable achievement for the independent developer. Supporting Firefly Studios’ transition to digital self-publishing, the free-to-play model of Stronghold Kingdoms has allowed the company to stay healthy and keep growing. With the help of Steam Kingdoms has become one of the most actively played games on the platform, with more daily concurrent users than other MMOs with the backing of heavyweight IPs such as Marvel Heroes and Star Trek Online.

Stronghold Kingdoms has also thrived thanks to its passionate players, all of whom have input on the game’s monthly content updates. This worldwide audience hails from over 100 different countries, with more than 200,000 monthly active users sharing 22 game worlds. They have played a pivotal role in the continued growth of the game, with hundreds of thousands of players signing up to play Stronghold Kingdoms as a direct result of friend invites.

Stronghold Kingdoms allows players to enjoy classic Stronghold gameplay in a highly interactive and competitive MMORTS environment. Set across a number of different medieval countries, players build their thriving empires on game worlds that feature actual villages, towns and cities. Last month Firefly added a ‘Europe’ world, where more than 30,000 players are currently forming alliances and fighting for control of 33 countries in one huge game world.

Stronghold Kingdoms can be downloaded and played for free at www.strongholdkingdoms.com

About Stronghold Kingdoms
Stronghold Kingdoms is the medieval online castle game. Join hundreds of thousands of players in a rich world of Lords, Ladies, Bumpkins and Barons as you build your village, research new technology and strive to be the greatest in the land. Construct mighty castles to defend your lands against insolent intruders, develop your economy and trade your way to victory, lead your fellow noblemen to war and control of the Kingdom. Build, besiege, pillage, farm, explore, research, vote, trade and banquet your way to the throne! For more information please visit www.strongholdkingdoms.com or follow @SHKingdoms on Twitter.

About Firefly Studios

Firefly Studios is an independent PC game developer specialising in real-time strategy and MMO titles. Formed in 1999 by Simon Bradbury and Eric Ouellette, the company has brought to market a number of high profile and commercially successful strategy games, including the Stronghold series with lifetime sales of over six million. Firefly has offices in the UK and US. For more information please visit their website at www.fireflyworlds.com or follow @fireflyworlds on Twitter.

TECMO KOEI AMERICA UNLEASHES A NEW BREED OF NINJA – YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z FOR PLAYSTATION 3, XBOX 360 AND STEAM PC

From Famed Developer Team NINJA and Legendary Producer Keiji Inafune

Comes an Action Packed, Twisted Tale of Ninja Revenge

BURLINGAME, Calif. – MARCH 18, 2014 – TECMO KOEI America is extremely pleased to announce that YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z is now available in North America for the PlayStation^®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360^® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and will be available on Steam^® for PC on March 21, 2014. In celebration of this momentous occasion, TECMO KOEI America has released the official launch trailer and created a brand new piece of artwork featuring the cyborg ninja, Yaiba Kamikaze.

In YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z, players take on the role of YAIBA, an elite ninja warrior and master in combat. Cleaved in two and left for dead at the hands of the legendary Ryu Hayabusa, YAIBA is brought back to life by a mysterious organization through the use of cyber technology. Now, armed with a powerful array of mecha weapons and an unquenchable thirst for blood, YAIBA’s relentless quest for revenge finds him slicing his way through hordes of undead in a world ravaged by a zombie outbreak.

“Developed by the talented teams led by Team NINJA’s Yosuke Hayashi and comcept’s Keiji Inafune, YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z is an ambitious project, and we are excited to introduce this new type of ninja to NINJA GAIDEN fans and newcomers alike,” said Amos Ip, SVP and General Manager of TECMO KOEI America.  “When it comes to creating an exciting new property utilizing ninja and zombies as source material, there are no better experts than Team NINJA and Inafune-san.”

Step into the stylized living comic book world of YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z where stunning visuals and fluid combat depict a world gone mad. YAIBA’s bloodlust is matched only by the deadly assortment of weapons in his arsenal. Shred through hordes of zombies by transforming YAIBA’s cybernetic arm into a razor chainsaw or tear off an opponent’s arms for a pair of make-shift zombie nun chucks. Each fallen foe brings YAIBA closer to the ultimate showdown with his rival as he leaves a trail of death and destruction in his tracks.
YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z comes from the teams behind the famed ninja and zombie videogame experiences, Team NINJA, creators of the revolutionary NINJA GAIDEN series, and legendary producer Keiji Inafune, and developer, Spark Unlimited. Enter a world where ninja, zombies, cybernetic weapons, and cell-shaded comic book visuals clash and come alive in an action packed adventure that draws from the NINJA GAIDEN franchise with an original storyline and new style of play.

YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z for the PlayStation^®3 and Xbox 360^® is available for a suggested retail price of $59.99 in North America. The Steam® (PC) version will launch on March 21, 2014 and is available for pre-order at a special discounted rate of $49.99. This title been rated M (Mature) by the ESRB.

More information about YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z can be found at www.YaibaNGZ.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/YaibaNinjaGaidenZ and Twitter @YaibaNGZ.

For more news about Team NINJA, visit http://teamninja-studio.com, and don’t forget to “like” us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/teamninjastudio and follow us on Twitter @TeamNINJAStudio.

About TECMO KOEI AMERICA CORP:

TECMO KOEI AMERICA CORP. is a publisher of interactive entertainment software for current generation consoles, handhelds and digital download content based in Burlingame, California. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of TECMO KOEI HOLDINGS CO., LTD., headquartered in Yokohama, Japan. TECMO is best known for the Dead or Alive®, Ninja Gaiden®, Tecmo Bowl®, and Fatal Frame® series. KOEI is best known for its Dynasty Warriors® and Samurai Warriors® franchises. On April 1, 2009, TECMO KOEI HOLDINGS CO., LTD was established as a result of the TECMO, LTD. and KOEI Co., Ltd. merger.