To celebrate the release of Top Gun, Sam baked us an awesome cake… Maverick would be proud! not to mention the lovely cupcakes displaying a tiny Top gun logo!

Nice work.

Now let’s eat it!

First off, thanks for all the e-mails and tweets from people about our new Top Gun game. We’ve even had a fair amount of interest over the game’s two hidden trophies (naturally, they’ve been figured out already). The reviews have been mostly positive too, from Gamespot to Kotaku and for those curious about the game’s script and narrative, then PS3 Attitude also has an interview with Jack Epps Jr about the work he did on that for our game. Even Ironstar’s wonderfully balanced appraisal, with the video version below, was very much appreciated in the studio.

Top Gun is finally released in the US today for the princely sum of $14.99. To commemorate the release we’ve uploaded a new YouTube video of the game’s Horde mode, along with some helpful annotations about how the game works. Enjoy!

After a fair bit of waiting, the trailer for our Top Gun game has finally been shown to the world. We’ve also had some more previews for the game too, from Daily Joypad to NXTGamer and even Strategy Informer. Again, these were hands on demos and it seems that they really liked what they played (which is always encouraging). Still no word on the European release date but we’ll know soon hopefully. In the meantime, enjoy the trailer below…

Earlier in the week we were busy in giving hands on previews to the press for our upcoming Top Gun game. From CVG to PS3 Attitude, the game’s been covered in a fair bit of detail. Even places like BeefJack, Girl Gamers UK and Electronic Theatre managed to give a good amount of coverage for the game, the latter even made some lovely comparisons to Star Fox 64 – so thanks for that! Our favourite piece was by Resolution Magazine though, if only for the barrel roll mention.

For those curious, the build we demoed was actually the final US release (that’s out on August 17th in case you’re wondering). We’re still waiting on the European release date but once we get that we’ll let you know. In the meantime, make sure to check out our developer diary over at IGN.

Over at thesixthaxis, they’ve covered the upcoming Top Gun game we’ve been working on. In the photo above you can also see a flight stick in the background, which is the Saitek Aviator in case you’re wondering. Whilst it’s only briefly mentioned in the preview, the game does support the stick – to the extent that we created a custom button mapping specifically for it. We’ll be having more updates regarding Top Gun in the oncoming weeks, so stay tuned!

For those that grew up in the 80′s, we hope you’ll like the news that our next game is none other than Top Gun for the PlayStation 3. We’ve all been hard at work on this for a good while and at its core the game is an arcade flight shooter in the same vein as Ace Combat and HAWX (though much faster and more visceral). Naturally, we’ll be talking about the game in the oncoming weeks and maybe even showing our suitably l33t skillz to boot.