I’ve got a soft-spot as big as an AWACS plane for the Ace Combat series. Alternate-earth settings, military melodrama, rousing music and the occasional sci-fi superweapon to shoot down in your unrealistically well armed jet. It’s all good stuff, and today’s Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown trailer ticks every box. While there’s no release date confirmed, it’s nice to see that it’s development is still zooming along and looking lovely, and that it’s still coming to PC.

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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown [official site] will indeed come to PC too, Bandai Namco confirmed today. Since announcing it in 2015, they’d only mentioned a PlayStation 4 release, so huzzah! This will be the second game in the arcade-y fly ’em up series’ 25-year run to hit PC, following the disappointing Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, and it sounds like it may be more of a return to form. It’s returning to the alternate Earth of the ‘Strangereal’ universe, for starters. This here story trailer brings to mind the earnest oddity and technononsense of Metal Gear Solid, which I’m up for: … [visit site to read more]