Bandai Namco Entertainment just announced a brand new action game to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Sword Art Online in the form of Sword Art Online Variant Showdown (via Gematsu). Sword Art Online Variant Showdown is in development for iOS and Android and it will be a free to play game. Sword Art Online Variant Showdown is the newest of the many Sword Art Online games in recent years. Prior games have been on mobile, PC, and console platforms with a new game release almost each year. Bandai Namco Entertainment hasn’t revealed many details about Sword Art Online Variant Showdown yet, but the publisher released a trailer for the game to go alongside pre-registration beginning. Watch the trailer for Sword Art Online Variant Showdown below:

Sword Art Online Variant Showdown will release worldwide this year. If you’d like to check it out, pre-registrations are now live on the official website and the official Facebook page for the game. App Store pre-orders are not live as of this writing and I imagine those will be available when the team has a more concrete release window in mind for Sword Art Online Variant Showdown. The official website also has pre-registration rewards listed alongside many tiers for the game. As with all new free to play games from Bandai Namco, I hope for worldwide servers so that we don’t see the Western versions shut down soon after launch as has been the case with some recent releases. Have you played the recent Sword Art Online mobile or console games and what would you like to see in Sword Art Online Variant Showdown?