The days of screaming top-down shooters are fading fast. Ikaruga just shipped for the GameCube--hopefully, it will serve as a wake-up call rather than a dying gasp. For many though, the granddaddy of ...

While titles like "Pong" and "Space Invaders" are remembered fondly today, these five games from the '70s also played crucial ...

"Namco Arcade Game Machine Collection" on a twelve-scale scale side by side. It is a long-fashioned vertical type casing, and a different design is given for each game. "Pac-man" who built the era of ...

Namco announced today that retro-gaming fest Namco Museum 50th Anniversary is now skipping off to retail for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance (with a PC version to follow in ...

Atari is to publish Namco Museum for 360 this April. Over 30 games will be included on the disc, such as Pac-Man Championship Edition, Galaxian and Super Pac-Man. There's probably a bit more Pac-Man ...

Before Namco was part of Bandai Namco Games, they made an elaborate multiplayer Galaxian 3 arcade machine. While not widely available in Japan, Galaxian 3 was ported to PsOne with The Rising of Gourb ...

TOKYO--Behind every big idea there is usually a single creative spark. Tetsuo Tsuchiya provided that spark at Namco, helping the arcade and publishing giant take its first steps towards the networked ...

When I went to Japan in December, I spent some quality time in a Namco arcade. Japan still has a number of arcades, and many feature one of the games that started it all: Pac-Man. And Bandai Namco ...