Bandai Namco shows off One Piece: Burning Blood

Bandai Namco showed off its new title in the One Piece fighting game series. One Piece: Burning Blood is coming to the PlayStation 4 as a new installment in the anime-style action-fighting series.

The Japanese company made the announcement at Sony’s press event at the Tokyo Game Show. The action looks pretty insane, very Japanese, and as violent as it can be. It shows that the Japanese video game makers are still investing heavily in games that have their main audience in just the Japanese market. But you never know. This kind of title just might make it overseas as well.

One Piece: Burning Blood
One Piece: Burning Blood

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.