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Shareholders OK Tecmo, Koei merger

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Jan 26, 2009 3:02 pm PT

Ninja Gaiden, Dynasty Warriors publishers will be formally combined into single holding company on April 1.

Just over two months from now, the possibility of a Ninja Gaiden-Dynasty Warriors crossover game will be one step closer to reality. On April 1, Japanese publishers Tecmo Ltd. and Koei Co. will formally merge into a single holding company. The move mirrors similar unions such as 2004's marriage of Sega and Sammy and 2006's melding of Bandai and Namco.

According to the Bloomberg news service, the Temco-Koei announcement followed shareholder summits at both companies. Each meeting saw the terms of the merger approved, including stock allocation. Current shareholders will receive one share in the new holding company for each share of Koei stock and 0.9 shares for each share of Tecmo stock.

The Tecmo-Koei merger was announced last December, less than a week after role-playing game giant Square Enix made an unsolicited $200 million bid for the Dead or Alive publisher. Its advances rebuffed, the Final Fantasy XIII maker quickly retracted its bid, then hinted that it remains on the lookout for acquisitions. Since then, though, the company has only announced the formation of a new Los Angeles studio and a Japanese distribution deal with Ubisoft.

72 Comments

  • was2

    Posted Sep 25, 2009 11:03 am PT

    Ninja gaiden 3 please someday

  • visiblecashew

    Posted Sep 6, 2009 4:11 pm PT

    I hope that the 360 gets a down load for a co-op mold. like the ps3.

  • Magatsu23

    Posted Apr 28, 2009 3:55 pm PT

    whoa, imagine ninja gaiden gameplay, against thousands of chinese dudes and demons. that should be pretty cool.

  • was2

    Posted Apr 24, 2009 4:05 am PT

    waiting for news ninja gardens and dead or alivers

  • idkxaboutxname

    Posted Apr 19, 2009 11:04 am PT

    Dynasty warriors was alright until i noticed they weren't making any improvements. For nearly what, 6 years now they have been making the same game over and over agian. I personally think if you like the dw series why are you even buying the next installment. THEY'RE EXACTLY THE SAME!!! DW has alot of potiential and i think this will help them. Hopefully Tecmo will help put some originality to the franchise, because it's ridiculous that game developers can make over 10 of the exact same games for around 6 years and not fail. If this is the same new DW game is the same tecmo needs to be slapped and koei needs to commit suicide. Cuz now the have everthing they need to make a great game, money, developers, and 2 decent sized fanbases.

  • furrat

    Posted Mar 13, 2009 2:40 am PT

    I just want to say dynasty warriors is the ONLY game like it, anyone who likes multiplayer hack-n-slash has NO OTHER CHOICE. But for what DW is, the game's lack of progress and lack of decent advances disgusts me, dw6, reduced numbers of character, AND clones? just stop already!

    when will they make "rise of a warrior" where you can actually HAVE troops? Koei has none of my respect, but the ownership of my favourite franchise..

    good god! Samurai warriors?! that was bad enough!

  • skyler303

    Posted Mar 5, 2009 2:18 pm PT

    Koei and Tecmo together? should be good for both companies.

  • BuckGame

    Posted Mar 1, 2009 8:01 pm PT

    I like Dynasty warriors and i can't wait until 6 empires Comes out & Gundam 2

  • Aceconn

    Posted Feb 26, 2009 2:47 am PT

    IDK why people dog Dynasty warriors.I guess it's the same reason some people hate ninja Gaiden for being very....very challenging.I love both games for everything they are.To be honest Koei at least takes more chances at making new fan's with the decent amount of titles they come out with each year.Namco doesnt seem to make that "leap of faith"very often.But sometimes that's because they take the time on high quality games.But what "I've"noticed is that most of thyere games are very challenging,and most often can be catagorized as Arcade type games.Wich like DW,are not for everyone.So everyone who hates Dynasty warriors,please do us all a favor,& stop talking about it.

  • TrueIori

    Posted Jan 31, 2009 12:58 am PT

    maybe now The warriors series will now get that needed kick in the butt in the combo department.

  • badazzwolf

    Posted Jan 30, 2009 6:28 am PT

    Wow! In regards to vietboi89's post, I take it that we should all play the same games you do... to have fun? Then I guess we should all eat the same foods you do, drink the same drinks you do, read the same books you do, watch the same TV shows you do, go to the same movies you do...all so we can enjoy our lives and have fun like you do...Meh!

    No Thanks! I will do what I want to do, when I want to do it and how I want to do it...Thank You Very Much! I, unlike you, don't have to rely on, and live my life according to how others perceive how something is, or what their "universal opinion" is. "One man's trash is another man's treasure"!

  • Downloadpilot

    Posted Jan 29, 2009 2:31 pm PT

    ....

  • vietboi89

    Posted Jan 29, 2009 1:23 pm PT

    @Abbandon u think KOEI > TECMO???? am i the onli here who has any expectations?

    No wonder Koei makes crappy games because there are still dumbasses who still think they make good games... the last good game they game out with was Kessen 3 and for some reason it seems Kessen has died off and people love the Warriors series because people like to feel like winners even though there is no freaking challenge, Ninja Gaiden pwns Dynasty Warriors, DOA pwns Dynasty Warriors, DOAX completely pwns Dynasty Warriors (because they delivered what was promised), Fatal Frame pwns Dynasty Warriors, Tetris pwns Dynasty Warriors. DO YOU PEOPLE GET IT NOW?!?!?! and if not try checking the review of the latest koei games and no not just GS check IGN gamepro and all those others and ull see the same thing ober and over again because they actually have a universal opinion of what a good game is... FUN!!!

  • _AbBaNdOn

    Posted Jan 28, 2009 9:32 pm PT

    Tecmo has more franchises but Koei definately has more talent. I hope this leads to Koei led game developement of tecmo titles like Monster Rancher, Deception/Trapt, DOA, and Ninja Gaiden but i am scared to death also of Koei using the pathetic talents of Tecmo developers and seeing it negatively affect Dynasty/Samurai Warriors. I dont really care about this merger as long as KOEI keeps pumping out progressively better versions of Warrior games because I cant get enough of them.

  • Dark_Altron

    Posted Jan 27, 2009 6:06 pm PT

    Koei with Tecmo...? Sounds like a pretty good merger to me. I see advances in the Dynasty Warriors series as in the Ninja Gaiden series as well. Maybe technology, ideas, plots, and whatever is in the pot can be exchanged to better both games for attracting a wider audience. Once again, this is just my opinion.

  • Chief_Kuuni

    Posted Jan 27, 2009 5:54 pm PT

    hopefully it turns out for both company's can't be a bad thing going on here

  • Snakebj

    Posted Jan 27, 2009 2:46 pm PT

    I hate koei with there terrible games Ninja Gaiden with Dynasty Warriors = fail
    i love ninja gaiden than koei comes and Fuk it up

  • happy666

    Posted Jan 27, 2009 2:14 pm PT

    ninja gaiden 3 is wat im waitin for

  • FusionRain

    Posted Jan 27, 2009 2:14 pm PT

    names???
    komo
    tecei
    games???
    ninja warriors ( lol sorry G4)
    or even koei bowl

  • Generalmojo

    Posted Jan 27, 2009 12:35 pm PT

    hopefully they dish out better DW games, im a huge fan hehe

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