Bandai Namco is ready to open a brand new arcade in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, taking up a constructing beforehand occupied by Sega.
The brand new arcade, set to open on March 1, will likely be located in the identical constructing that beforehand housed the favored Sega Akihabara Arcade 4. After Sega offered off lots of its arcades in 2020 on account of a downturn within the COVID pandemic, many both closed or rebranded to GiGO, owned by new purchaser Genda.
In accordance with TechRaptor, the Bandai Namco arcade will characteristic a wide range of arcade machines together with rhythm title Taiko No Tatsujin and Cell Go well with Gundam Excessive Vs. 2 XBoost.
Throughout 5 flooring, the arcade may even characteristic UFO catchers and retailers that specialize in capsule toys and the corporate’s buying and selling card video games.
Whereas Bandai Namco’s historical past within the arcade enterprise goes again a long time, this marks the corporate’s first institution within the Akihabara district.
GiGO’s Akihabara Arcade 4 beforehand closed in September 2022, whereas the Sega Akihabara Constructing 2 arcade closed in August 2020. The Sega Akihabara Arcade Constructing 1, nevertheless, remains to be open beneath the GiGO model.
Talking in regards to the acquisition on the time, Genda chairman Hisashi Kataoka mentioned: “Sega shops throughout the nation will likely be switching their retailer names to GiGO, to precise our gratitude for Sega’s 56 years of historical past and our want to be an oasis that quenches folks’s thirst for leisure.”
Just lately, Bandai Namco has been teasing upcoming sequel Tekken 8, which is ready to be launched on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X|S and PC.