Gundam Rogue Orbit has just been announced, and the new game shakes things up more than expected. You see, Gundam has been around for almost 50 years; it's one of the best anime series, and releasing a new entry has always been the same – a new anime launches with a new generation of mobile suits, we snap up the model kits that follow, and eventually a game gives us the chance to step inside the universe and play a new story.
But Rogue Orbit spins it all around, as Bandai Namco looks to develop its new world in a Marvel-like connected universe way. Instead of taking an established Gundam story and adapting it into a game, the publisher is creating a brand-new corner of the franchise where the anime, game, Gunpla model kits and card game are all being developed as connected parts of the same world from the start.
