Bandai Namco Entertainment

Background

Bandai Namco Entertainment (also known as Bandai Namco Games and Namco Bandai Games) was formed in 2006 after a merger between Bandai Co., Ltd. and Namco Ltd. The original companies still do exist separately, while the merged brand is mainly used for video game publishing, especially for its own games.

1st Logo (2006- )

Logo: On a background (usually white), we see the company name in white text on top of a yellow circle and a sideways red spaceship-like triangle.

Variant: On Tekken games starting with Tekken Tag Tournament 2, we see the logo as normal, but after a few seconds, the camera zooms in as Kazuya Mishima and Jin Kazama (characters from the game) step on the logo and throw punches at each other in slow motion (with the camera zoomed out again). It's unknown if the next logo will use this variant.

FX/SFX: None, just fading.

Music/Sounds: None.

Music/Sounds Variants:

On Pac-Man World Rally, the music from the 7th Namco logo plays.
On the Tekken variant, we hear a loud thud when Kazuya and Jin step on the logo, and a long whooshing sound when they are throwing the slow motion punches.

Availability: Common. Precedes Namco and Bandai logos on all their games released since 2006 (as in Tekken games, both this and the Namco logos are used). Also widely used across Europe and North America. However, with the next logo introduced, this logo might be retired soon.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (2022- )

Logo: On a white background, we see a red speech bubble outline with "BANDAI NAMCO" in it.

Variant: An animated variant appears on trailers. Multiple colored bubbles come together to form the main bubble, and the text appears word-by-word afterwards.

FX/SFX: None. The animated variant has the bubbles and the text moving.

Music/Sounds: None. The animated variant has a five-note xylophone-synth tune.

Availability: Brand new. It first appeared on Bandai Namco's website and social media, but it didn't appear on games until Digimon Survive.

Editor's Note: This logo isn't a favorite among people who were familiar with the previous logo, but it does have red as a primary color, which makes sense since Namco and Bandai use it in their respective corporate logos.