Here’s your last look at Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon before it arrives later this week

From Software and Bandai Namco’s mech epic returns at long last this week, for the incredible looking Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon.

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After a decade in stasis, the Armored Core series returns, and it’s with a title that seems like it might be one of the best in a crowded gaming-year. Armored Core VI serves up the classic, omni-directional fighting that the series is known for, along with what look to be massive levels of mech-customization and strategic options for battle.

And of course, it looks flat-out jaw-dropping.

A mysterious new substance called Coral was discovered on the remote planet, Rubicon 3. As an energy source, this substance was expected to dramatically advance humanity’s technological and communications capabilities. Instead, it caused a catastrophe that engulfed the planet and the surrounding stars in flames and storms, forming a Burning Star System. 

Almost half a century later, Coral has resurfaced on Rubicon 3, a planet now contaminated and sealed off by the catastrophe. Extra-terrestrial corporations and resistance groups fight over control of the substance. ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON puts players in this desolate world, where they infiltrate the planet as an independent mercenary and find themselves in a struggle over the substance with rival corporations and rogue factions. 

Bandai Namco press release

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon hits both Xbox and PlayStation platforms, and the PC on August 25th, 2023.