The bidding took place at the Taj Hotel in Dubai on Monday and it is the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group (RPSG) (Lucknow) and CVC Capital Partners (Ahmedabad) who will join the cash-rich league as the new owners.įilm bodies, filmmakers condemn Bajrang Dal's alleged attack on sets of Prakash Jha, Bobby Deol's Aashram Season 3 IPL: Lucknow and Ahmedabad announced as two new teams with RPSG, CVC Capital Partners making winning bids The games feature a roster of characters from their respective animes who battle it out in an arena. One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum and Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden are fighting games along the lines of Tekken or Mortal Kombat. Does this mean western fans will have to wait till 2017 before they get their hands on One Piece? That would be a sad state of affairs indeed. The sad news for those not living in Japan is that it took more than four months for Dragon Ball Z to make its way to western markets. Since the games appear to use the same engine, cross-game multiplayer would have been less taxing on the developers. The games will reportedly offer local and multiplayer cross-game combat and gamers can choose to battle each other with whichever game they own.īoth games have been developed by Arc System Works and published by Bandai Namco. To those Dragon Ball Z and One Piece fans salivating at the prospect of pitting Vegeta against Nami, note that these games are Nintendo 3DS titles and are not available on any other platform. The former is set for a Japan launch on September 21, while the latter has been out since 2015. One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum and Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden are the two games involved. Two games based on two of the biggest anime franchises of all time are set to bring cross-game multiplayer to the masses!