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MS Gundam: Operation Troy alive and kicking


Thought by many to have been canceled, the newest Gundam game has just been given its Japanese release date. As a game that borrows a great deal from games such as Battlefield, it's a bit strange to see that Mobile Suit Gundam: Operation Troy isn't seeing a worldwide simultaneous release date. Announced via a press release on the Japanese version of xbox.com, Operation Troy will be seeing release June 26 in Japan.

As noted, the game is inspired by Battlefield, but replacing the copters and tanks are, as you likely guessed, Mobile Suits (nerd fact: not all Mobile Suits are Gundams). Despite the game's abysmal graphics, an open-world FPS with properly-scaled Mobile Suits has a lot of potential. And even though the Gundam games don't exactly have a history of exceptional quality, we'd like to give the devs a chance to get it wrong before we rip into it. So, here's hoping for an eventual localization.

Gallery: MS Gundam OP Troy

Pac-Man, Gundam, and more at Xbox 360 press conference


In addition to the news that anime is on the XBLM, there is plenty more from last night's Japanese press event. You can read the horrible machine translation of Famitsu's coverage here, or read on for the big
  • Arcade legends Pac-Man and Galaga are coming to the Xbox Live Arcade! No word on whether there's any bad blood between the two considering Ms. Pac-Man and Galaga have been spending an awful lot of time together. Both titles will support worldwide rankings.
  • Bandai Namco also announced Zegapain, "an anime/game collaboration that will boast downloadable content," as well as a new entry in the Culdcept series, Culdcept Saga. Xboxyde has screens of Zegapain XOR.
  • An as-yet-unnamed Xbox Live compatible Gundam FPS. GameBrink has five high-res screens, and Xboxyde is hosting a torrent of video from the press conference.
  • Tri-Ace studios, creators of the Star Ocean series, Radiata Stories, and Valkyrie Profile games, are working on an as-yet-unnamed RPG exclusively for the Xbox 360, to be published by Microsoft Game Studios. Sounds like the mystery Xbox 360-exclusive RPG has been revealed ... sort of.
  • Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's Mistwalker studios is bringing several games to the Xbox 360. They announced that the first of these, Blue Dragon, will be released (in Japan presumably) before the end of the year, while a demo disc for Lost Odyssey will be released "later this year." No word on Cry On.
  • Xboxyde has screenshots and video footage of the Square Enix/Gamearts collaboration, Project Sylph. A sequel to Gamearts' PS2 shmup Silpheed?
Microsoft is cognizant that the Xbox 360 hasn't been going over so well in Japan. Last night's press conference, and their intentions to hold a second console launch in June, are indicative of their determination to succeed in Japan; an opening salvo, if you will, of the oncoming console wars looming on Japan's ultra-competitive gaming landscape.

Read - Translated Famitsu coverage with images
Read - Microsoft Briefs Media in Japan (1UP)
Read - GameBrink's posts on the press conference

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