{"id":121539,"date":"2020-12-03T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/wallace_and_gromit_studio_aardman_is_teaming_up_with_bandai_namco_to_create_brand_new_ip"},"modified":"2020-12-03T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T14:30:00","slug":"wallace-and-gromit-studio-aardman-is-teaming-up-with-bandai-namco-to-create-brand-new-ip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/03\/wallace-and-gromit-studio-aardman-is-teaming-up-with-bandai-namco-to-create-brand-new-ip\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallace And Gromit Studio Aardman Is Teaming Up With Bandai Namco To Create Brand New IP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2101eedd39b8f\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2101eedd39b8f\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Wallace And Gromit\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2101eedd39b8f\/wallace-and-gromit.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2101eedd39b8f\/wallace-and-gromit.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Wallace And Gromit\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Aardman Animations<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>UK animation studio Aardman Animations \u2013 famous for its <strong>Wallace and Gromit<\/strong> series \u2013 has inked a deal with video game publisher Bandai Namco to create a brand new IP which will cover a wide range of mediums, including video games.<\/p>\n<p>While details on this new property are thin on the ground, the two companies have said that the agreement will span multiple projects, and the first will exist &#8220;across multiple media.&#8221; Work begins in earnest on this project early next year, and the firms have revealed that the games will span both &#8220;current and future&#8221; systems \u2013 which means Switch owners <em>should<\/em> be included.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that the two companies have collaborated; World War One video game <strong>11-11: Memories Retold<\/strong> was published by Bandai Namco in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Aardman&#8217;s managing director Sean Clarke had the following to say about the deal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Interactive Entertainment is a huge growth area within the entertainment world. With new emerging technology blurring the lines of watching and playing, we are keen to develop strategic partnerships with partners such as Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe that share our vision of creating new IP that embraces this new world and cement our studio&#8217;s reputation as a multi-disciplinary creative hub.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aardman was founded in 1972, but it was the creation of Wallace and Gromit in 1989 which propelled the studio to international fame. In 1999 it released its first movie, <strong>Chicken Run<\/strong>, and has gone on to produce further films and TV shows since then, including the popular <strong>Shaun the Sheep<\/strong> and <strong>Timmy Time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Several of Aardman&#8217;s properties have been adapted into video games in the past, resulting in titles such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/wallace_and_gromit_in_project_zoo\">Wallace &amp; Gromit in Project Zoo<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Shaun the Sheep: Off His Head<\/strong>, which released on the GameCube and DS respectively, as well as on other formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Aardman Animations UK animation studio Aardman Animations \u2013 famous for its Wallace and Gromit series \u2013 has inked a deal with video game publisher Bandai Namco to create a brand new IP which will cover a wide range of mediums, including video games. While details on this new property are thin on the ground, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}