14 DAY TRIAL // BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment revealed that it just entered into a partnership with ISKN, a tech French company.
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment is a company that’s been slowly growing in the past few years, and the engine for their growth has been a library of good or great games. It’s both a development studio and publisher, which helps a log in the gaming industry. In fact, the company has quite a few divisions under its wing, some of which are not well known to the western world, like amusement machine, for example.
The publisher has a lot of great franchises under its belt, such as Ace Combat, Ridge Racer, Soulcalibur, Tekken, and many others. BANDAI Namco also publishes a large number of other games, and in many cases, they just cover some far away territories.
Who’s ISKN?
When BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment chooses a partner, that company need to have something to bring to the table, but ISKN is not all that well-known. It’s a relatively new company that was founded just last year.
ISKN says that they are a pioneer in augmented interaction and that they have 24 international patents based on 60 years of deep tech R&D expertise in magnetometry at the world-renowned CEA LETI. Right now, they have the Slate, which is a smart sketching digital surface.
“Led by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe (BNEE), the partnership seeks to leverage the core strengths of each respective company to develop and bring-to-market a ground-breaking entertainment ecosystem which will be available in 2019. Possessing complementary expertise, the two companies are working together, utilizing ISKCON's multi-patented augmented interaction technology and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment’s publishing know-how to develop a unique product centered around fun, creativity, and immersion,” reads the official announcement.
It’s not clear what BANDAI Namco and ISKN are working on, but it sounds awfully lot like a new console or something similar. Maybe something will be revealed during the upcoming E3 convention.