{"id":613876,"date":"2026-05-31T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T15:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:47:42","slug":"ace-combat-8-wings-of-theve-just-popped-up-on-pegis-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613876\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve just popped up on PEGI’s website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, has popped up on the PEGI website<\/a> with a “pre-release date”: 30th May, 2026.<\/p>\n

As a quick peek at the game’s official website<\/a> shows, up until now, publisher Bandai Namco has only committed to a vague “2026” window.<\/p>\n

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve – Official Trailer | The Game Awards 2025.Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

PEGI warns of violence and in-game purchases, which is why the game has been allocated a 16 PEGI age rating, but that’s it. The listing unusually provides absolutely no advice for consumers, outline of the game, or content-specific issues.<\/p>\n

And what, exactly, PEGI means by “pre-release dates” is hard to say \u2013 not least because it’s 1st June tomorrow, and there’s been no shadow-drop release just yet.<\/p>\n

It does, however, intimate that we could be playing Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve sooner rather than later, so watch this space \u2013 I suspect we’ll find out more at Summer Game Fest or Sony’s State of Play presentation.<\/p>\n

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X\/S, and PC, and was announced during last year’s The Game Awards<\/a>. It’s been seven years since Ace Combat 7, so this next entry is being developed on Unreal Engine 5 for the first time. Bandai Namco is promising an “emotionally charged” campaign and multiplayer modes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, has popped up on the PEGI website with a “pre-release date”: 30th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}