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News Bandai Namco Basically Shutters Online Arm Following Live Service Failures

Blue Protocol company "absorbed"

Bandai Namco Online, as its name suggests, is essentially Bandai Namco's online games arm; in recent years it's been responsible for the publisher's live service push in the form of Gundam Evolution and Blue Protocol. And now, the plan is for Bandai Namco Online to be absorbed into Bandai Namco Entertainment in...

• Yesterday, 5pm
• Bandai Namco
• PS5
• Blue Protocol
• Industry

News Online RPG Blue Protocol Shutting Down, Western Release Cancelled

Goes offline in Japan on 18th January

Bandai Namco and Amazon Game Studios have announced their collaborative online RPG Blue Protocol will shut down in Japan, and the Western release has been cancelled entirely. Japanese users have until 18th January 2025 to keep on playing the game, at which point it'll be taken offline. In a post on the Blue...

• Wed 28th Aug 2024
• Amazon Game Studios
• PS5
• Blue Protocol

News PS5 MMO Blue Protocol Brings Big Anime Energy in New Trailer

Class time

You’ve read our huge Blue Protocol hands on preview – and now you want to see a little more of the game in action, right? Well, this new trailer’s got you covered. For those of you who don’t know, this title is being developed by Bandai Namco in collaboration with Amazon Game Studios – although there has been a little

• Tue 25th Jul 2023
• Bandai Namco
• PS5
• Blue Protocol
• Trailers

Preview Blue Protocol Might Be the Competition Genshin Impact Needs

We go hands on with Bandai Namco's online RPG

For as unfathomably popular Genshin Impact has been all these years, you could argue it's always had things a bit easy. There is nothing else quite like it on consoles, and consistent content updates along with new waifus to metaphorically marry every other month have turned a lot of fans' free time into...

• Tue 25th Jul 2023
• Amazon Games
• PS5
• Blue Protocol
• Previews
• Features

News Promising PS5 Action MMORPG Blue Protocol Delayed into 2024

Feeling blue

Bandai Namco's colourful, anime-styled MMORPG Blue Protocol was previously targeting a 2023 release on consoles — including the PS5 — but it's now been pushed into a vague '2024' window. Don't lose too much faith in the project, though — it's actually still launching this year for PC in Japan, so the game is ready to roll, just...

• Tue 23rd May 2023
• Bandai Namco
• Amazon
• PS5
• Blue Protocol

News PS5 MMO Blue Protocol Looks Like a Legit Anime in Opening Movie

Still on track for 2023

Bandai Namco’s Blue Protocol has been a long time coming, but it’s partnered with Amazon Game Studios to get the project over the line, and considering the success of Genshin Impact and Final Fantasy 14, we’d argue that’s probably a shrewd business move. While there’s no firm rele

• Sun 9th Apr 2023
• Bandai Namco
• PS5
• Blue Protocol
• Trailers