Bandai Namco announcedMobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs MaxiBoost ONwill launch in Japan and America on July 30, exclusively on PlayStation 4. The announcement was made during theGundam Console Games Festival Spring 2020 stream,held today on March 23.Moreover, a Closed Beta forGundam Extreme VS. MaxiBoost ONwill be held from April 25-27. Registrations are open from now to April 10on this page.Selected participants will be notified on April 17, and a pre-download for the Beta will happen from April 17-25.Gundam Extreme VS. MaxiBoost ONhas split-screen local multiplayer and online multiplayer. It also has 185 playable mecha from 36 differentGundamworks, from the original series toGundam G no Recongusita, Gundam Build Fighters,andGundam Iron-Blooded Orphans. It also includes many mecha and characters from spinoff manga or novels which sometimes never left Japan. Early print copies ofMaxiBoost ON  will include a DLC code to getGundam IBO' Barbatos Lupus Rex. It’s one of the three new playable mecha units added in this console version alongside Zaku Amazing and Montero.

Lastly, as usual in Japan only, the game will get a special Limited Edition with 33 tracks from variousGundamanime series. Nowadays, Bandai Namco always do these kinds of Limited Editions for their crossover mecha games, such asSuper Robot Warsgames,SD Gundam G Generationgames, andGundam Extreme VSgames. If you’re interested in importing this version, more details are at the end of the Japanese version of the trailer.

The new trailer forGundam Extreme Vs MaxiBoost ON,both the English and the Japanese version,are included below.

The game’s staff and the seiyuu who appeared on the stream posing together. Kengo Kawanishi (Mika) and Ryōta Ōsaka (Genius Klim).

If you’ve never heard of theMobile SuitGundam Versusseries, it’s basically a 2 vs 2 arena battler initially inspired by Sega’sVirtual-Onbut which gradually became its own pretty different thing. The Gundam Vsseries is a long series of arcade games that started in March 2001 in Japan. Some of the games in the series end up getting console ports nowadays. Gundam Extreme VS. MaxiBoost ONis actually already available on arcades in Japan since March 2016. Another new arcade game,Mobile SuitGundam Extreme VS 2, was released in October 2018, and has yet to get a console port.