Namco Networks

Namco Networks was an American developer and publisher of video games for mobile phones, based in San Jose, California.

The company was founded on January 1, 2006, as the mobile phone division of Namco America, and produced video games for mobile phones in North America, Europe and Asia, many of which were ports of older Namco video games.

Movies is regarded as one of the first North American mobile games to incorporate downloadable, streaming video content for phones.

By 2007 it had built its own internal development and marketing group and the staff was well over 100, also employing a large contract QA arm.

In November 2010, Namco Networks laid off 90 staffers and stated that more of the work would be shifted to its counterpart in Japan,[3] referring to the division of Bandai Namco Games that was once known as Bandai Networks prior to the merger.