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| Company type | Division (Defunct) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Mobile game |
| Founded | January 1, 2006 |
| Founder | Toshihiro Nagoshi |
| Defunct | 2011 |
| Fate | Merged with Namco Bandai Games |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
| Owner | Bandai Namco Holdings |
| Website | www.namcogames.com |
Namco Networks was an American developer and publisher of video games for mobile phones, based in San Jose, California. The company was founded on January 1, 2006, as the mobile phone division of Namco America, and produced video games for mobile phones in North America, Europe and Asia, many of which were ports of older Namco video games. Their first release was a port of Pac-Man, which was part of a batch of nine titles to be released for the iPod.[1] Namco Networks' licensed port of Scene It? Movies is regarded as one of the first North American mobile games to incorporate downloadable, streaming video content for phones.[2] In 2011, the company was merged with Namco Hometek, who was Namco's older home console division, to form Bandai Namco Games America, which subsequently became Bandai Namco Entertainment America in 2015.
- ^ "New games come to video-capable iPods". Macworld. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- ^ GameZone. "Scene It? The DVD Game Goes Mobile". Retrieved 2017-05-12.