[Wii] XSEED to publish Sky Crawlers in America

[Infernal Monkey]

Following on from the recent Fragile publishing deal, XSEED has announced that they'll also be bringing over Namco Bandai's Sky Crawlers. The full title will be The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, and it's due out towards the end of the year.

Based on the anime adaption of the novel series, Sky Crawlers is an arcade style flight game in the vein of Ace Combat - as it's by the exact same development team.

"I'm extremely pleased to be able to confirm The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces for gamers in North America," said Jun Iwasaki, president of XSEED Games. "The innovative control scheme and gorgeous visuals just go to show what a top-notch development team can do when creating a new game from scratch specifically for Wii."

Sky Crawlers appeared on several Australian retailer listings back in May, but has since been either dropped or listed as 'discontinued'. Still, with Namco Bandai games such as One Piece Unlimited Cruise managing to get a PAL release, there should be a good chance someone will pick this up for the local market. Rising Star Games would be a good bet.

Thanks to Zephyr for the news tip!

[Darkmessiah24]

This game has been under my radar for some time and I would be very happy if Rising Star Games pick this game up to publish here like they did with Fragile (which XSEED is also publishing in the US).