
NAMCO Bandai Games America has confirmed that they have licensed the exclusive North American rights to publish videogames for the
Dragon Ball franchise from 2010 to 2014. While Atari currently holds the agreement with
FUNimation for the Dragon Ball game rights, the agreement ends this year. FUNimation Entertainment has made attempts to terminate Atari's license in October of 2007, but Atari negotiated the continuation of the license in December of that year.
The games are based on Akira Toriyama's fighting action manga and Toei Animation's
anime adapatation of that
manga. NAMCO Bandai Games America negotiated with Toei and FUNimation for the new agreement. The new agreement not set to officially start until 2009, will be preceeded by the publisher releasing 3 Dragon Ball games for the
Xbox 360,
PS3,
Wii and
DS.
The games are:
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 consoles,
Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo for the Nintendo Wii console
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans for the Nintendo DS system
Source: Anime News Network
[Tags: FUNimation annoucned that is has licensed Production I.G's Sengoku
Basara television
anime series. In addition they have also announced they will release the first season of
Dragon Ball in a DVD box (the first 31 episodes) will ship on September 15th.
The license to
One Piece has not been lost, said FUNimation Entertainment and the DVDs will still continue to be released. Though they have also said they do not have a license for the
Evangelion 2.0 You can (NOT) advance yet.
This was all announced at their Anime Expo Saturday panel.
Source: Anime News Network
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