Announced just a few weeks ago, it seems that Bandai Namco, as well as the official Top Gun film page (Japan) have pulled the announcement of the Ace Combat 7 and Top Gun collaboration.

Update: The company has re-issued new tweets, as well as a trailer confirming that the collaboration is still on.

Original story:

Originally set to release sometime this spring as a paid DLC, both the official Twitter accounts of Project Aces and Bandai Namco, have mysteriously deleted any mention of the Ace Combat 7 Top Gun collaboration.

This isn’t just from the publisher and developer side either as the official Japanese page for the movie have also deleted the announcement post from their site, routing readers to a 404 page.

While there is no formal announcement that the collab has been cancelled, it is odd of both parties to remove any mention of the DLC, especially since it was just announced a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps they are letting the movie’s collaboration with Microsoft Flight Simulator to gain steam, bumping the release of the Ace Combat 7 DLC collab to later this year? Who knows, but we did reach out to Bandai for any possible comment and will update you should we hear back.

For those unaware, the Top Gun collab was set to introduce a new paid DLC for Ace Combat 7 that featured the following content:

• F/A-18E Super Hornet
• F-14A Tomcat 
• Top Gun themed emblems
• Music rearrangement of Top Gun Anthem by Ace Combat composer Keiki Kobayashi.

No pricing was given at the time, though the publisher did note that we would be hearing more about it soon, presumably around the release of the film. Of course with their mentions now purged from social media accounts and websites, we may have to wait a bit longer than anticipated.