NAMCO BANDAI GAMES RELEASES OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE FOR ACE COMBAT® 6: FIRES OF LIBERATION™

NAMCO BANDAI’s flight action game lands on Xbox 360 This October

Santa Clara, Calif., (June 29, 2007) – Leading video games developer and publisher NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. announced today that its highly anticipated flight action title, Ace Combat® 6: Fires of Liberation™ will hit store shelves nationwide on October 23, 2007. Exclusively for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation brings the popular Ace Combat series to the next generation with a massive multiplayer online experience, photorealistic high-def graphics, an all new story, and brand new gameplay that includes features like the Allied Support System and Dynamic Operations System, that radically change the way missions can be completed.

“Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation is the most robust Ace Combat game to date and will be a killer flight action game to own on the Xbox 360 this Holiday Season, “Makoto Iwai, Senior Vice President and COO of NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. said. “With some of the most incredible and realistic HD graphics ever seen and extensive online multiplayer modes, there will be no other game out on the market like it.”

Players will be in full control of the battlefield in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation with the Allied Support System. This new gameplay mechanic allows players to call on a variety of allied vehicles including; fighter planes, tanks, heavy bombers and naval fleets. Each unit carries their own strengths and weaknesses into battle as they help even the odds against the swarming enemy. Allied forces react to the player’s level of success in real-time, with more skillful players bringing a more efficient fighting team of allies into battle. Allies will also report in with video updates from the battlefield, giving virtual pilots key strategic intel in managing their battle situation.

Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation will re-define the flight action genre as players will be able to take their planes online for the first time ever in the series, to compete in adversarial and team-based dogfights. The power of the Xbox 360 allows for a totally immersive living battlefield, where players will find more aggressive and smarter enemies in larger numbers than ever before. Calling upon allies with the new massive-scale Allied Support System will be the key for survival against such powerful foes.

ACE Combat 6: Fires of Liberation ships exclusively for the Xbox 360 on October 23, 2007 for an estimated retail price of $59.99. Launching on the same day, the exclusive limited edition Ace Combat® 6 ACE-EDGE™ Flightstick Bundle has an estimated retail price of $149.99.

For more information about Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, please visit http://acecombat6.namcobandaigames.com/

About NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.
NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., is a leading interactive entertainment software publisher and developer based in Santa Clara, CA. The company is a part of the NAMCO BANDAI group of companies known for creating and publishing many of the industry's top video game franchises including the PAC-MAN®, SOULCALIBUR®, Naruto™ and Tekken® brands. For more information about NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., and our products log onto www.namcobandaigames.com

About HORI

HORI is one of the oldest console peripheral makers in the world, with business operations existing in Japan for more than 20 years. The company develops a wide range of peripherals, including regular controllers, specialty controllers, memory cards, cables and remote controls. The company’s strongest part is that the products are licensed by Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and whole lot of collaborated special items with software company for the market. In January 2004, HORI (U.S.A.), Inc. opened to expand its business efforts worldwide to deliver the highest quality products in the US market. We are pleased to have NAMCO BANDAI Games to work as a partnership on this project again. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.hori.jp/us/ / www.hori.jp

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