Independent game studio Vlambeer (Ridiculous Fishing, Nuclear Throne) and patriotic publisher Devolver Digital have announced that the much-anticipated realistic aerial dogfighting simulator LUFTRAUSERS will launch on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PC, Mac, and Linux via Steam and Humble on the 18th of March.

Read on after the break for the full press release and trailer for LUFTRAUSERS.

Independent game studio Vlambeer (Ridiculous Fishing, Nuclear Throne) and patriotic publisher Devolver Digital have announced that the much-anticipated realistic aerial dogfighting simulator LUFTRAUSERS will launch on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PC, Mac, and Linux via Steam and Humble on the 18th of March.

“OH DEAR GOD FINALLY YES,” said Rami Ismail, 50% of developer Vlambeer.

Potential recruits and amateur rauser pilots can visit LUFTRAUSERS.com to learn more about the war effort, train on the original LUFTRAUSER web game, and pre-order LUFTRAUSERS on Steam and Humble for 10% off the $9.99 price.

The most patriotic of citizens and tycoons of industry that wish to help with the recruitment effort on a more grandiose level can invest in the $749.99 LUFTRAUSERS Air Raid Pack that yields 1 DRM-free download of the game and 100 giftable Steam keys. Purchasers of this special bundle of aerial firepower are encouraged to recruit new rauser pilots from their ranks of friends and aid in the war effort by any means necessary.

“I honestly thought LUFTRAUSERS released back in 2012,” said Devolver Digital CFO Fork Parker when reached for comment. “Ironically, I spent what I thought was LUFTRAUSERS royalties on a private jet.”

News reports and details from the front can be found via Twittergraph via @Vlambeer and @DevolverDigital.

Vlambeer Clone Tycoon is the newest game from Vlambeer. The game is a fun commentary on their continued problem with other developers launching clones of their upcoming games and trying to beat Vlambeer to retail first. In the game you literally read news and e-mails to find out about new games Vlambeer is working on and then steal the idea and develop the game to beat them to market.

Vlambeer being good guy programmers tend to release prototypes of their game to the public to try out which are then cloned and sold on mobile platforms. Cloning is a huge problem that especially hurts indie developers and happens to be the actual business model of Zynga.

You can keep an eye on what players are doing with the game by following @VlambeerCloning, which is live tweeting when players release games ahead of Vlambeer’s titles.

“We want to demonstrate how dismal it is to clone games by letting people experience this activity themselves,’ the duo wrote on the game’s website. “And what could possibly be a better way to experience something outside of your reality than through a game? That is why we have created Vlambeer Clone Tycoon, which is exactly that: a game in which the player assumes the role of a cloner with the single goal of ripping off Vlambeer as hard as possible.”

The idea is genius quite frankly and hopefully it brings some attention to this problem.