Armored CoreTM: Verdict DayTM Now Available from Namco Bandai Games America

Customize Powerful Armored Core Units and Conquer the World with Improved Multiplayer Options

SAN JOSE, Calif., (September 24, 2013) – Leading video game publisher and developer Namco Bandai Games America Inc. today announced that ARMORED CORE^TM: VERDICT DAY^TM is now available for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360® games and entertainment system from Microsoft for North America. The world has been thrown into chaos. Important natural resources needed for the survival of competing factions are scavenged and fought across the world with deadly Armored Core units. A strong trigger finger, innovative customization and strategic teamwork will be all that stand between survival and complete annihilation.

Renowned Japanese game developer FromSoftware returns to its hardcore mech action franchise with ARMORED CORE: VERDICT DAY. Command a squadron of advanced Armored Core units in a dystopian future ravaged by war and stripped of natural resources. Players will form squads of up to 20 members and enlist into one of the various in-game factions to wrestle control of territories away from other players in the game's persistent multiplayer mode. New gameplay features will be implemented into ARMORED CORE: VERDICT DAY to ensure that players who choose to play alone will be able to recruit a squad of A.I. controlled Armored Core units and enjoy the robust feature sets of co-op and multiplayer modes, while new matchmaking system ensures that players will always find battles at a moment's notice.

Operator Mode returns to ARMORED CORE: VERDICT DAY with new upgrades, allowing players to tactically command a full squad of Armored Core units from a tactical top-down point-of-view. Operators will be able to set rally points, mark targets and receive real-time in-cockpit views from other players and computer-controlled squad mates to achieve real-time strategic command of the battlefield.

ARMORED CORE: VERDICT DAY will allow fans of ARMORED CORE V to carry over their save data to experience brand new content with their customized Armored Core from the previous title. Players will be able to further customize their Armored Core units with hundreds of parts ranging from guns, armor pieces, shields and boosters. The new robust customization options will help players synchronize their Armored Core unit loadouts with teammates to deliver maximum destruction on the battlefield.

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