Naruto! Naruto Naruto Naruto Naruto! WE LOVE YOU NARUTO. We love you so much we can't stop writing about you! Neither, apparently, can Namco Bandai Games America, because we get press releases about NARUTO approximately 26 billion times a week. That, oddly enough, is the exact same number of anime music videos that have been made by people and posted on YouTube with clips from Naruto, so we've little doubt that the news that Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes has finally gone gold.

"Gooooooooooold?" You ask your monitor in the hopes we can actually hear you (we can, don't worry).
"GOLD!" We respond every two seconds because we've gone NARUTO CRAZY.

Yes, that means it's done. It means the 3-on-3 battles that are pixel-perfect recreations of the very same combat you've come to love from the surprisingly decent Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series on the PS2, but, y'know, gone portable and with more stuff. What kind of stuff? New team-based skills, character-specific upgrades and abilities to unlock, full game sharing and Ad-Hoc multiplayer for starters.

The game has been locked down, finished up and certified gold. It's currently winging its way to manufacturing and will hit stores on August 28th. ARE YOU EXCITED YET? GOOD, BECAUSE SO ARE WE!