Convention - Paris Games Week Restart : Discover the Bandai Namco booth

By Mulder, Paris, Paris-Expo, Porte de Versailles, 01 november 2022

After 3 years of waiting, the time has come to meet again the big players of the industry who promise a more festive experience than ever. The PGW Restart offers a varied program of games and licenses to discover, test and share the passion of video games. Major publishers will be present at Paris Games Week 2022, including: Bandai Namco Entertainment, Capcom, Nintendo, PLAION and its partners SEGA and Koei Tecmo, PlayStation, Square Enix, Ubisoft and Xbox. 

Young and old alike will be able to discover games for all audiences at the Bandai Namco Entertainment area. The games One Piece Odyssey and Park Beyond, whose releases are announced for 2023, will be playable in preview. Families will be able to meet the Pat'Patrol puppies in Paw Patrol, La Patrouille Grand Prix and compete on Lego Brawls. Esports tournaments will punctuate the 5 days of the show with games such as Tekken 7, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure or Dragon Ball FighterZ.

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. is a Japanese multinational video game publisher headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Its international subsidiaries, Bandai Namco Entertainment America and Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe, are headquartered in Irvine, California and Lyon, France, respectively. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings, an entertainment conglomerate. Bandai Namco Entertainment was formed on March 31, 2006, following a corporate merger between Namco and Bandai on September 29 of the previous year. Initially known as Namco Bandai Games, it merged Bandai Games and Namco Networks in January to create Namco Bandai Games America. Namco Bandai Games absorbed the video game division of Banpresto in 2008 and dissolved Bandai Networks in 2009.

The development business was consolidated into a new company in 2012, Namco Bandai Studios (now called Bandai Namco Studios), in order to speed up development times and strengthen cohesion among the development teams. Namco Bandai Games was renamed Bandai Namco Games in 2014, and then Bandai Namco Entertainment a year later. Bandai Namco Entertainment owns several multimillion-dollar video game franchises, including Pac-Man, Tekken, Gundam, Soulcalibur, Tales, Ace Combat, Taiko no Tatsujin, The Idolmaster and Dark Souls. Pac-Man, itself serves as the company's official mascot. As of March 2022, it was the third largest video game company in Japan in terms of revenue and market capitalization, after Sony Interactive Entertainment and Nintendo, ahead of Sega, Square Enix, Nexon, Capcom and Konami.

The company also owns the licenses for several Japanese media franchises, such as Shonen Jump, Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Sword Art Online and the Ultra series. It is the main publishing and development arm of the Bandai Namco Group's Content Strategic Business Unit (Content SBU), and the main video game arm of Bandai Namco Holdings.

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As a meeting place for all communities and all generations, PGW will offer many animations that reflect the plurality of the ecosystem. Young and old will be able to meet cosplayers at the Imagin'Con association booth, which will offer many activities and animations, and travel with the family through the 50 years of video games at the MO5 association retrogaming area. You can also visit the PGW Shop, which will offer a range of Paris Games Week collector's items, and the FNAC store area to discover new products, animations and demonstrations. PGW, which takes place during the All Saints' Day vacations, is naturally a meeting place for all families. The PGW Junior area will offer activities and games to try out for budding gamers and parents alike!

Key information :
-,Open to the general public from Wednesday 02 November to Sunday 06 November 2022 
- Opening hours : 8:30 am - 6:30 pm
- Paris Expo - Porte de Versailles, Hall 1
- Ticketing (online only) : here

Photos and video : Boris Colletier / Mulderville

(Source : press release)