It's a Gundam! (Okay, actually it's like two Gundams and also they probably have teammates that are also Gundams?)

I woke up this morning to a dozen or so very excited tweets, many of which were just variations on my name plus a link to a Bandai-Namco post on the official Playstation Blog. The post outlines the company's 2016 localization plans, but in my heart of hearts I knew at least one of the items on the list before I even scrolled down the page: Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs-Force for the PlayStation Vita.

Force is the latest in the long running (and well loved) Gundam Extreme Vs 2-on-2, arena fighting game series. It's something like a faster paced, team-based Virtual-On with a much bigger battlefields and many more characters to chose from. I'm a huge fan of Gundam Extreme Vs Full Boost, so I'm thrilled to see the latest entry in the series coming stateside. Bandai-Namco had previously announced plans to release an English version of the game previous to this announcement, but only for the Asian market--so I'm also happy that I no longer need to import the game. The last time that Bandai-Namco tried to bring this style of game to the west was with the quickly-shuttered Rise of Incarnates. Hopefully ExVs-Force will do better. Check the bottom of the post for a trailer.

As excited as I am about this Gundam news, I know that other folks are likely as hyped over some of the other announcements Bandai-Namco made today:

Bandai-Namco didn't give specific dates for any of these games, but did refer to them as "plans for 2016 and beyond," so hopefully we'll see at least a couple of them next year. And by "hopefully we'll see a couple," what I really mean is "hopefully I'll get to pilot a Gundam in 2016."