The company was formed when Bandai Co., Ltd. bought Namco Ltd. for about $1.7 billion. The merger was announced in May 2005 and was finalised in January 2006.

Namco Bandai Holdings (USA) Inc. (formerly called Namco Holding Corp.) owns all of the Bandai Namco Group US subsidiaries including Bandai America Inc. (Toy), Bandai Entertainment, Inc. (Visual/DVD), Namco America Inc. (Arcade machine), Namco Cybertainment Inc. (Arcade facility), Namco Networks America Inc. (Mobile games) and Namco Bandai Games America Inc. (Video games).

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