Last year, word came out that Namco Bandai had dissolved Namco Tales Studio and reabsorbed the employees into Namco Bandai's main development wing. Now we know that said acquisition has a proper name: Namco Bandai Studios

The new studio is a gathering together of all of their other studios, including Tekken, Soul Calibur and Gundam, just to name a few --- including Namco's Tales of series. The group, which totals over 1,000 people, will also be in charge of developing new IPs for the company.

Namco Bandai Studios will officially open on April 2. It will be located in Shinagawa, Tokyo and will be headed up by Hajime Nakatani, who has had a hand in many of Namco Bandai's titles with the most prominent being the company's long-running Tekken series.