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Sword Art Online: Alicization Braiding Mobile Game Announced for Smartphones
posted on by Alex Mateo
Bandai Namco Entertainment announced the new Sword Art Online: Alicization Braiding role-playing game for iOS and Android mobile devices during the Sword Art Online Beater's Meeting 2019 at Belle Salle Akihabara in Tokyo on Sunday. The game will be free-to-play with in-app purchases. The company will announce more information on August 30. Bandai Namco opened a website and began streaming a teaser video:
Sword Art Online: Alicization premiered in Japan in October 2018 and is streaming on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and FunimationNow. The series is adapting the entire "Alicization Arc" of Reki Kawahara's original novels and will air for four cours, or four quarters of a year. The first two cours aired from October to March, and the second two cours, titled Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld, will premiere in October.
Sources: Sword Art Online: Alicization Braiding game's website, Bandai Namco Entertainment's YouTube channel via Siliconera
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