"Sparking! Zero is everything Dragon Ball fans will have wanted, but it's also just a blast for those unbothered by its extensive fan-service," Lewis Parker wrote in Eurogamer's Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero review .

Sparking! Zero sold over three million units on its first day, while another report suggests that Bandai Namco is cutting its workforce.

Sparking Zero's early access play period, Bandai Namco issues a message to a streamer who is leaking the game.

According to the report, Bandai Namco's approach to reducing staff is not to make them redundant, but to force them into leaving voluntarily. This "traditionally Japanese" method involves assigning people to rooms with no work-related tasks, where the staff members typically use their time to find other work before quitting.

Bandai Namco has assured struggling Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero players that it's okay to lower the difficulty as waves are being wrecked by Great Ape Vegeta.

It looks like Dragon Ball fans really have been eagerly awaiting a new entry in the Budokai Tenkaichi franchise, as its latest entry, Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero, has already managed to sell three million units in its first 24 hours of availability.

Many people have missed the Budokai Tenkaichi formula it seems like, as Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero returns to that series.

In a press release, the publisher confirms that Sparking! Zero has hit three million sales just a day after launching around the world, which is a pretty impressive milestone indeed. As pointed out by analyst MauroNL on X (formerly Twitter),