Armored Core 6 gameplay trailer reveals August release date

Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon(opens in new tab), the next game from Elden Ring developer FromSoftware, will be out on August 25. The launch date was revealed in a gameplay trailer dropped today that, to put it mildly, is pretty damn spectacular.

Armored Core 6 was announced at the 2022 Game Awards with a trailer that was also pretty damn spectacular. It may have been all CGI and didn’t reveal much about the game beyond the fact that it existed, but for fans, that was enough.: A new Armored Core game had been rumored for ages, but the Game Awards reveal was the first confirmed action on that front in a decade.

The new video starts off with a similarly cinematic approach but then transitions to gameplay featuring huge, high-speed mechs doing battle on the not-very-pleasant looking planet of Rubicon. I generally prefer a more Battletech style of giant fighting robots—slow, lumbering, military—but I am undeniably impressed by the sheer scale of everything on display here. Some of those machines—I would assume bosses—are seriously big, but it’s the promise of huge, open environments to roam around in (while under fire, which isn’t really ideal, but such is the way of things) that really knocks my socks off. Elden Ring pulled me in that way, and maybe Armored Core 6 will too.