Bandai Namco announced the release date forSword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris.The newestSAOgame adaptation will be launching worldwide on June 24, 2025, on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Japan will get the day one day earlier, on May 21. A new trailer was published to reveal the date. For now, only theBandai Namco Latinoamericaversion of the trailer is available.Alicization Lycorisis the first consoleSAOgame adapting part of the Alicization arc, which is the longest arc in theSword Art Onlinenovels.Alicazation Lycoriswill be covering the story from volume 9, Alicization Beginning, to volume 14, Alicization Uniting. If you’re more of an anime person and have no idea what I’m talking about, this basically means the game will cover the first Alicization anime. However, it’ll also have some new story elements: Asuna joins Underworld earlier in the story,and there’s an original female character called Medina, following the same pattern they’ve been doing with all theSAOgames.That’s all the important stuff, you can find the trailer below.Personally speaking, the Alicization arc is my least favorite part ofSAO, and I believe Reki Kawahara should have made another novel altogether with it and endSAOwith Mother’s Rosario.Alicization Lycorislooks pretty interestingfromwhat we’ve seen of it so far,though it’s also obvious the game is far from being complete. I was actually expectingSword Art Online: Alicization Lycoristo have a late 2020 release date. May 2020 is pretty soon in my book.Anyway, If you likeSword Art Online, I suggest readingSAO Progressive, which is a remake with Kirito and Asuna living through Aincrad and the whole SAO incident together from the beginning. It’s pretty well written and shows how much Reki Kawahara improved over the decades. While it’s been rewritten with the light novel publication started in 2009,SAO’s global story was first written by Kawahara nearly 20 years ago now in a web novel version that ran from 2001 to 2008. I also recommendAccel World, Kawahara’s other novel which is unjustly nearly not as popular asSAO.Accel Worldis really awesome from what I’ve read of it.As a side note,Project Sakura Warshas part of its main character designed by Abec/Bunbun, the original character designer ofSword Art Online. You can read more about the gamehere,here,andhere.The second season of the Alicization anime, Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld, is currently airing and can be watched legally on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and FunimationNow.Update: The trailer was now removed, it was published too early by mistake by Bandai Namco Latinoamerica. As for the Japanese date, it was mistakenly revealed early through a video in theSAO Memory Defragmobile game.Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris’release date will probably be shown through a new commercial during the next episode of War of Underworld airing this Saturday. The trailer should be officially released during theSAOgames stream this Sunday, December 8th.In the meantime, you can find a reupload of the trailer below.Update 2;As expected, a commercial was published after the latest War of Underworld episode, officially revealing the Japanese release date. The trailer will be officially revealed on the Sunday 8th December stream. You can find the commercial below.