Bandai Namco cancels Blue Protocol release in the West

Title was due to be published by Amazon, servers also to be shut down in Japan in January 2025




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Bandai Namco has announced that it’ll shut down the Japanese servers for Blue Protocol in January 2025, and cancel its Western release.

A blog post on the game’s website said the partnership with Amazon Games to publish the online title in Europe and America has ended.

In a statement, Bandai Namco expressed its disappointment but said that despite hard work it has “come to the conclusion that it will not be possible to provide a service that satisfies all of you.”

Servers in Japan will close on January 18, 2025, a year and a half after its original release in the country.

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