Blue Protocol is coming to the West in 2024.
Blue Protocol is coming to the West in 2024.
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Blue Protocol brings an anime world to life | hands-on preview

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Amazon Games is planning to launch Bandai Namco’s massively multiplayer online game Blue Protocol to the West in 2024.

Already on the market in Japan, the MMO is coming to Western markets on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC. At the recent Summer Game Fest Play Days, I was able to play with the game, which has a cell-shaded art style that is like “anime come to life.”

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. 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.