A brand new Trademark reveals that Bandai Namco’s upcoming preventing sport could possibly be known as FATAL ICHOR.
Bandai Namco has been engaged on a brand new preventing sport, as prompt by job listings since March 2026. Whereas followers have been left to take a position what the mission could possibly be, Bandai Namco has filed a trademark which will have simply revealed the official identify.
Bandai Namco’s FATAL ICHOR
On November 9, 2026, Bandai Namco filed “Deadly Ichor” for courses 09 and 041, overlaying video video games and leisure companies. It’s an unannounced IP, and even the products and companies inform little or no in regards to the sport itself. Nevertheless, the identify hints at an motion/preventing sport, and since we already know a title is in improvement, it’s seemingly the trademark is for a similar mission.
The earliest reviews concerning a “new preventing sport” cite job listings from February 2026, however Bandai Namco has been steadily hiring extra expertise for this. We all know all of them belong to the identical mission as a result of they particularly point out hiring for a brand new preventing or motion preventing sport.
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These job listings are additionally constant and inform us rather a lot about what to anticipate. The place for Recreation Designer that was found some time in the past highlighted “On-line battles, on-line foyer, rankings, and so forth.” There was additionally point out of creating NPC characters and occasion scenes, which aren’t options you’d often discover in conventional preventing video games. The newest posts come from August, and so they corroborate these particulars.
Though followers had been excited and hoping for it to be the following Soulcalibur entry, that sadly will not be the case; this doesn’t imply that Deadly Ichor might be a small mission by any means as a result of many of the job listings require devs to have expertise or data of programs which are akin to larger titles. There are a number of positions on the Cinematics, movement seize, and VFX facet, and a few even point out “wrestling” as a related style to explain the sport.
Deadly Ichor could possibly be a brand new wrestling-styled motion sport with NPCs and different occasions, presumably some cinematics, much like Tekken 8. One other place for Recreation Design Director lists expertise with Person-Generated Content material as a desired ability, so who is aware of what route this new IP might take.
Even when it does find yourself being a special online game, it might imply Bandai Namco has one other massive mission apart from the one beforehand leaked. We are going to solely know for positive as soon as there’s an official announcement or some extra concrete, dependable rumours.
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