Bandai Namco cuts workforce after cancelling games due to diminishing demand: Report

Bandai Namco Holdings Inc., the iconic video game publisher behind titles such as Pac-Man, Dragon Ball, and Gundam, is reducing its workforce following the cancellation of several games due to diminishing demand, reported Bloomberg.

Since April, Bandai Namco Studios Inc., an affiliate of the company, has relocated approximately 200 out of its 1,300 employees to so-called “expulsion rooms,” or oidashi beya, added the report.