Japanese Gundam Bubbles→

Here, watch this YouTube video, but first, do two things:

1. Skip past the first 6 minutes unless you want to see a bunch of middle aged men play soccer with robots.
2. Mute the damn thing. I can’t stand the reporter. Don’t worry about the content, I’ll tell you everything you need to know.

So anyway, the game those Japanese kids are playing is called Gundam: Bonds of War. You get 3-4 friends and you take over all these machines in an arcade. Congrats, now you guys are a unit. Using the power of the internet, competing groups of friends can do battle with each other in what looks to me to be a really bitching giant robot piloting experience. I want an American release so bad, but we don’t have arcades anymore. Truly, we are missing out.

Also, if you can read Japanese, this web site looks semi-official.