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With its progenitors watching from the arcade past, this fledging screams onto the scene, engines a-blazing, looking fast, fun, and full of promise.

Genre: Flight
Expected release date: Winter 2007
Published by: Sega
Developed by: Planet Moon Studios

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Latest Stories

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News

Free DS/PSP magazine Issue 3

The third issue of GamerZine's free handheld gaming magazine is out and includes reviews of Ratchet...

News from N4G Apr 5, 2007

After Burner: Black Falcon - multiplayer hands-on

We go full-throttle with the game that puts the "moo" in "multiplayer"

Feb 13, 2007

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Quirky developer Planet Moon to go serious with PSP revival

Oct 10, 2006

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Review

A classic arcade flight shooter refuels, but buys the cheap gas

Mar 26, 2007

Its very tough to update old-school arcade games gracefully. Change too much, and people accuse you of ignoring the franchises heritage. Change too little, and people will say the series is stuck in a rut. This second situation is unfortunately how we feel about After Burner: Black Falcon, an update to publisher Segas beloved arcade flight shooter series After Burner. Its not as bad a collision with the past as would be, say, taking Mick Jagger shopping for Speedos, but it isnt exactly plugging ...

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Previews

After Burner: Black Falcon - multiplayer hands-on

We go full-throttle with the game that puts the "moo" in "multiplayer"

Feb 13, 2007

It struck us as kind of weird when we first heard that publisher Sega had handed off its classic After Burner franchise to Planet Moon, the oddball developer behind Infected, Armed and Dangerous and Giants: Citizen Kabuto. And now we've seen the result of that decision: cow-themed jet fighters with giant, milk-spraying udders. Granted, the cow jets are just part of After Burner: Black Falcon's "Mad Cow" deathmatch mode, in which one player becomes the Mad Cow (hence the new paintjob) and ... » Read Full After Burner: Black Falcon preview

After Burner: Black Falcon buzzes the tower

Hands-on with the PSP entry in the classic arcade series

Dec 18, 2006

"Do you feel the need - the need for speed!?" If your answer involves dubs, vinyls, or Brooke Burke, you need to go to the video store, or to the Netflix, or wherever you whippersnappers get your movies these days, and rent Top Gun. Keep it real, son. Cars don't go fast. Jets go fast. First released by Sega as an arcade game in 1987, After Burner capitalized on the fact that fighter pilots were widely viewed as totally freakin' awesome, thanks in no small part to Tom Cruise and the Cold War. ... » Read Full After Burner: Black Falcon preview

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