If you’ve never heard of Blue Protocol, you’re actually one of the lucky ones. Bandai Namco’s anime massively multiplayer online role-playing game, which launched in Japan in 2023, has had plenty of players eager for its worldwide release, but now that day will never come. The publisher announced this week that Blue Protocol is canceling the game’s global launch, and winding down service in Japan on January 18, 2025. For a project that once looked like a promising challenger to Genshin Impact’s throne, the cancellation is a crushing blow to potential players, and the latest in a string of failures for co-publisher Amazon Games.
