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Ah February, a month of blossoming love, the promise of spring and a massive PlayStation Network sale from Namco Bandai Games! Starting tomorrow, Namco Bandai Games will be holding a four-week 50% off sale of selected digital games and downloadable content across the PlayStation family brand of systems.

If you’ve been holding off on riding the high seas with One Piece: Pirate Warriors, unlocking the mysteries of the past in Dark Souls: Atorias of the Abyss, rolling around town in Touch My Katamari or stretching to new worlds in Noby Noby Boy, now is your chance. The sale will start Tuesday, February 5th and run until Tuesday, March 5th. The following list features the games and downloadable content featured in this month’s sale.

PlayStation 3

• RIDGE RACER 7: 3D License Version – $9.99
• NAMCO MUSEUM ESSENTIALS – $4.99
• NOBY NOBY BOY – $2.49
• ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS – $24.99

PlayStation Vita

• RIDGE RACER – $12.49
• TOUCH MY KATAMARI – $12.49

PSP

• SOULCALIBUR: Broken Destiny – $19.99
• TEKKEN 6 – $19.99
• NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja Impact – $19.99

DLC

• ACE COMBAT ASSAULT HORIZON DLC – prices vary from $1.99 to $7.49
• Dark Souls: Atorias of the Abyss – $7.49
• ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS DLC Pack – $7.49

When I grow up, I want to be an airplane. I want to soar and spin and shoot all the bad guys with my jet lasers. At the moment, unfortunately, my relative youth is the one thing (that’s it; there’s nothing else) standing between me and that dream. It’s not all bad news, though, because now I can make do with Ace Combat: Assault Horizon – Enhanced Edition on my personal computing device. Sure, that means there’ll be tiny people yammering on inside of my planes, but I’ll just ignore them. I am the sky.

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Namco Bandai (which still sounds like an exciting shiny-plastic toy name for a company in my head) have sent word that their dogfighting game Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is coming to PC. The Windows computer version, which is apparently due early next year, “features controls and graphics that have been optimized specifically for PC users. The PC version will include many of the DLC items released on the console versions of the game. Players will have immediate access to additional aircrafts and numerous aircraft skins as well as skills and maps.” So that’s sounds good. But also: “on the console versions of the game. Players will have immediate access to additional aircrafts and numerous aircraft skins as well as skills and maps. The multiplayer portion of the game will feature support through Games for Windows Live from Microsoft.” Mmpf.

Still: zoom! As you can see below.(more…)

After yesterday's Gears of War 3 deal, Best Buy continues its savings streak, offering Ace Combat: Assault Horizon for a $30. The deal is valid today, and it's online only, so hop over to Best Buy if you're looking to take off (about half the price, that is).

#acecombat QTEs, or Quick Time Events, are a way for video games to let the player feel like they're interacting during a mostly cinematic sequence. More »

We think Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is pretty cool, but even after release Namco continued deluging us with media, which had the unfortunate effect of dulling our interest in any of it. We can only look at so many pictures of airplanes!

... is what we thought yesterday. Today, Namco sent us screens from the new DLC, coming out October 25. This is the airplane screenshot to get us interested in airplane screenshots again. That's the special "Halloween Pumpkin" color scheme for the F-14D Super Tomcat. The DLC includes another special color scheme, along with an entirely new support fighter, but neither of those have pumpkins on them.

#acecombat After we ran our "Yes" Gut Check for Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, I noticed a lot of skepticism about the game. Is it really any good? It seems weird, and cold, and soulless. More »

It didn't hit me until I started getting into the current game, but it's been too long since we got an Ace Combat. Some of you may have got your fix with the PSP version last year, but for console gamers (especially PS3 centric ones), Ace Combat has been off the radar for years. So Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is a nice answer to our distress call, though it's not really the game you may have been hoping for...

#acecombat For nearly two decades fans of arcade-simulation jet combat have found safe haven in Namco Bandai's Ace Combat series, so the developers decided to change everything. Yay? More »

Ryan and Jeff shoot mithssiles at some MIGs in Ace Combat Assault Horizon.

If you're not a devotee of the franchise, I'd forgive you for not keeping track of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon.

Not only are there a lot of games in this series, but "Assault Horizon" has to be the most forgettable subtitle since ... well, we can't remember, naturally. (Seriously, guys, you once subtitled a game "Electrosphere." How you've fallen!)

I was just like you, dear reader. I barely realized the thing existed until my lousy brother/reviews editor conned me into playing it. Heck, I'm not even a huge fan of flight games, generally speaking. I make these revelations in the hopes that you'll believe me when I say this next bit.

You have to play this game.

Namco-Bandai has revealed huge download figures for the Ace Combat: Assault Horizon demo. The publisher confirmed to Eurogamer that the demo has been downloaded over 1.2 million times across Xbox Live and PlayStation Network...

With Ace Combat: Assault Horizon all done and flying into retail October 11, the team can't just sit around and take a breather. No, it's time to put on an oxygen mask and start working on future DLC, like the Tokyo multiplayer map shown in this latest trailer.

Straight out of TGS, the video above and the screens below will give you a good look at what's in store for next month's Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, including some really "fly" aerial online combat ... and a pretty pink jet fighter (with pink missile smoke!). We've got new 3DS screens in here, too.

#acecombat After being sorely disappointed by the helicopter combat of Apache Air Assault last year, it's nice to see there's still some hope for the well-armed whirlybird enthusiast in Ace Combat: Assault Horizon. More »

This ten-minute Ace Combat: Assault Horizon sees a barrel-rolling whirlybird destroying everything that has a motor or gun. Ace Combat assaults retail on October 11.

#acecombat Whenever a racing game like Forza or Gran Turismo is released, the internet is flooded with car porn. Ace Combat isn't a car game. It's got jets and helicopters. Bring on the flying vehicle screens! More »

#acecombat It's Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Friday once again, and this week Project Aces gives us a detailed look at what we'll be flying when the fighter jets are grounded. More »

It's Ace Combat Assault Horizon Friday, boys and girls, and you know what that means: Project Aces is parading four sexy fighter craft players will be slipping inside when the game drops October 11. More »

#acecombat Do you know what today is? It's Ace Combat Assault Horizon Friday, that's what day it is! Starting this week, Namco Bandai promises to show off a different set of their game's mighty list of aircraft every Friday. More »

NAMCO BANDAI Games America has just released extensive intel on the incredible fleet of more than 30 aircrafts players can pilot in ACE COMBAT ASSAULT HORIZON, the intense and visceral flight action-shooter videogame coming out on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 11, 2011. Starting today a...

This week's Famitsu magazine reveals the first details of Ace Combat Assault Horizon multiplayer modes. The game will feature two kinds of online play: a cooperative "Domination" mode, and self-explanatory "Deathmatch" mode...

For many years, developer Project Aces has been 'top gun' in the genre of flight combat action games. While Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's HAWX series attempted to take aim at the crown, a lack of positive reception from critics and gamers has left that franchise stalled on the tarmac, if you will...

Project Aces is hard at work at a new Ace Combat game. The new title, Assault Horizon, doesn't have a number in its name (this would technically be 7), but that doesn't mean it's not looking interesting. What does this new Ace Combat have in store for players this fall? What's the Ace Combat seri...

Namco Bandai sent out a 10-minute video of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon gameplay, which should prove to be an accurate gauge of your interest in the game, and your ability to tolerate it.

If, after 10 minutes of squelchy noises, shaky camera movement and the back of an airplane, you're still totally engrossed in the video (and not suffering any effects of motion sickness), then you are prepared for Assault Horizon. Congratulations!

Sorry if you do end up feeling motion-sick, though.

Fly high with 10 minutes of glorious gameplay footage from Assault Horizon in this dogfighting tutorial level!

#watchthis Namco has released a 10-minute tutorial video for their upcoming Ace Combat: Assault Horizon game. The video gives an in-depth look at what to expect from the Close-Range Assault Mode in this fall's air-combat game. More »

Strike enemy craft from the skies.

Pilot an attack chopper through hostile territory with this walkthrough.

Evade the rooftop RPGs and eliminate hostiles on the ground and in Miami Beach in this gameplay.