Oh my gawd, weird crossover alert.

I sooo love it. :D

What is the iDOLm@STER? I've never quite got that.

miki is the best idol :3

dammit if i can't shoot them down, at least i can sing them to death!!

it worked in Macross!!!

Christ, I wish this was coming to the US version.

I love how the next headline down's first word was "Ludicris." Because that was the first word that popped into my mind.

@Revenge_of_Nekojin:
it might...

iDOLM@ster gamer pic HAS been out in US Xbox Marketplace so i have high hopes of flying Miki Flanker...

400 MS points...lol

At least Namco understand how to bring Japanese gamers to the 360.

Ridge Racer with Idolmaster cars...theres a crossover hit.

I'd SO get this. But before that, I wish Idolmaster would be working on a European 360...

BTW, can you paint the planes in AC6 (like the cars in Forza)? That would be cool.

@RobTheBuilder: Not so sure about that; the Ace Combat forums have been full of flaming pissed folks for the last day or so thanks to this news. While Imas fans are obviously (generally) happy to see the news, esp. since it's _only_ 40% the cost of a schoolgirl swimsuit costume (1000MSPs), fans of the actual Ace Combat series, along with anyone else disguising as one, are pissed that Namco is 'tainting' their beloved series. They should be happy to know that they say this is "first in the series," which means you'll be seeing F117 B-72 ver, A-10 F-91 ver, and 9 other (more if they go through the sub characters) planes very soon.

Stats are already available on the official site, btw [www.acecombat.jp] . Missile and special weapons payload are linked to character stats [www.idolmaster.jp] .

Why do you have to pay for all these planes? I say they should have given you more to start off.

OMG I want this!

Too bad you can't pick which plane you want the art on though, I'm not too crazy about the SU-33. Rather see it on the F-22, if we're going for dogfighting.

Why the fuck doesn't this post mention anything about the other two planes for download? No one cares about idolmaster.

If they dont make an 王子 and 王 planes also to offset this, I will be joining the pissed off crowd.

@muu: Aye. The Ace Combat series is just pure awesome, and their motto of "Noone else comes close" actually works for them. Too bad the Ace Combat community are a bunch of gibbering idiots. They've been this way since Ace Combat 5. Too many fanboy prejudices and too many closed minds.

@Nick The Newbie: Case in point.

If the really wanna make nerd dreams come true they would localize iDOLMA@STER!!!! We have crazy kooks over here who wanna play that stuff too. And we dont need, nay we dont even WANT english audio, just give us some damn subtitles and be done with it.

@RPharazon: I'm not saying the idolmaster skin shouldn't be in the game. It's completely up to namco what goes in there, and who am I to argue with that.
What is miffing me is the fact that there is more to this DLC update, but ashcraft is too caught up on the fact that there's an anime girl on one of the paint schemes to even mention it.

@Nick The Newbie: I -only- care about Idolm@ster.

More Idolm@aster related posts Brian! I still need to buy a Japanese 360 so I can play this game!

I gave up on Ace Combat after the demo kept restarting me at a checkpoint where I was upside-down and flying six feet above the ocean.

That flight stick looks awesome though. I'd like to buy it just for that. There's no cockpit view though, right? That's a deal breaker for me.

The plane looks awesome though.

Now I know who to aim for. I'll shoot down team mates sporting that paint job.

Holy shit! You have to pay 400MS Points for that plane? It does not pay to be a nerd sometimes.

What heck? Seriously? And I am sure this will be the most downloaded bundle ever.

Truly itasha have hit new heights!
*groan*

oh that sucks. They take one of the most beautiful planes ever made and tart it up with pap? I'd pay extra for an unskinned version, this is just laughable. I thought they meant it to be a serious game? I haven't picked it up yet but I played the demo and it sure didn't come across as a comical game...

Yet even more reason to shoot the planes down!

This isn't just a screenshot - it's a photograph from the future. A dystopian nightmare where anime fans and console fanboys are actually gathered into their own super powered militias, complete with air force. Dear god, please let this time machine work, so I can contact Sarah Connor....

Awesome. Keep up the iM@S news, I love hearing about it.

Wheres my Rafale M paintjobs ???!?! Oh and i'm still stuck on the last level damnit.

@Mansteak: The future is history, then: [www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp]

Couldn't find the picture again, but there're also versions with Ah my Goddess characters.

@MakiMaki:

She is such a creepy perv. Give me Yukiho, thanks.

FWIW, cartoon drawings on warplanes is nothing new anyway - since they actually do it in real life. Pretty sure that in WW2 some American ones has them too.

Psh, I like the plane, myself. Has anyone stopped to notice that the missile trails are green instead of grey? Now, I do admit that it's a little expensive, and rather than releasing them one at a time, they should just make the entire Idolm@ster pack available in the future for like, 1000, which is way less than they'd all cost seperately... Lol, another thing I'd like to see is a namco arcade pack, pac man on my F-22 XD

I tried to make the image video for you
[jp]

+ Watch video

LOLO
It began the fighter