{"id":2308207,"date":"2026-03-02T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2308207"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:16:07","slug":"konami-digital-entertainment-confirmed-as-a-global-sponsor-for-the-2026-world-baseball-classic-continuing-from-the-previous-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/konami-digital-entertainment-confirmed-as-a-global-sponsor-for-the-2026-world-baseball-classic-continuing-from-the-previous-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Konami Digital Entertainment Confirmed as a global sponsor for the 2026 WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC\u2122, continuing from the previous tournament!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"19020\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>WINDSOR, UNITED KINGDOM \u2013\u00a0March 2nd, 2026\u00a0\u2013 Konami Digital Entertainment, B.V.\u00a0<\/strong> (KONAMI). is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a global sponsor for the 2026 WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC\u2122, to be held in four cities worldwide: Tokyo (Japan), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Houston (Texas, USA), and Miami (Florida, USA) from Thursday, March 5, 2026, to Wednesday, March 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC\u2122, is the premier international baseball tournament featuring national and regional teams, organized by World Baseball Classic, Inc. since 2006. The sixth edition, the 2026 WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC\u2122, will feature 20 countries and territories from around the world competing in intense battles for the title of world baseball\u2019s best.<\/p>\n<p>Konami Digital Entertainment will continue its support as a global sponsor for the 2026 WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC\u2122, following its sponsorship of the 2023 tournament. Through our sponsorship of this event watched by baseball fans worldwide, we will deliver the appeal of baseball to more people and will contribute to the promotion and sustainable development of sports culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u3010About Konami Digital Entertainment\u2019s Baseball Content\u3011<\/p>\n<p>The PAWAPURO series is Konami Digital Entertainment\u2019s flagship baseball game, enjoyed for over 30 years since its debut as a home console game in 1994. The series has sold over 26.3 million copies across console games (as of the end of December 2025) and has surpassed 53 million downloads for its mobile games (as of November 2025). The Professional Baseball Spirits series, a real professional baseball game, has been beloved by many professional baseball fans for over 20 years since the release of its first console title, Professional Baseball Spirits 2004, in 2004. Furthermore, since 2015, the mobile game Professional Baseball Spirits A has been available, with cumulative downloads exceeding 70 million (as of February 2026). Furthermore, in October 2024, the official MLB mobile game \u201ceBaseball\u2122: MLB PRO SPIRIT\u201d was released.<\/p>\n<p>Trademarks, copyrights, names, images and other proprietary materials are used with permission of World Baseball Classic, Inc.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.konami.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINDSOR, UNITED KINGDOM \u2013\u00a0March 2nd, 2026\u00a0\u2013 Konami Digital Entertainment, B.V.\u00a0 (KONAMI). is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a global sponsor for the 2026 WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC\u2122, to be held in four cities worldwide: Tokyo (Japan), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Houston (Texas, USA), and Miami (Florida, USA) from Thursday, March 5, 2026, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2308208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2308207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Konami-Digital-Entertainment-Confirmed-as-a-global-sponsor-for-the.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308209,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308207\/revisions\/2308209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}