Not too long ago, developer D-techno announced that it was working on a game based on the upcoming third season of “A Certain Scientific Railgun”, going by the working title of A Certain Scientific Railgun: Spectrum Story. The game is scheduled to be out for the Android and iOS platforms, and the release date has yet to be revealed.

In A Certain Scientific Railgun: Spectrum Story, the game takes on the role of a protagonist in the Academy City who accidentally stumbles upon a terminal equipped with a mysterious system dubbed experiment. You make contact with Mikoto Misaka, electromaster and one of the very few Level-5 espers in Academy City.

We finally have the first glimpse of the gameplay, and for better or worse, it is very fanservice-centric. The core gameplay seems to involve conversing with Mikoto herself, and depending on the choices you make, you will either gain or lose friendship points.

Once you reach a certain friendship level, you will be able to unlock more dialogue options, and Mikoto will start texting you, so yeah, this looks to be a dating sim of sorts set in the A Certain Scientific Railgun universe, which isn’t a bad thing at all. This should be a good way to occupy your time until the anime starts again.

A brief piece on the third season on the long-running series courtesy of ANN:

This year’s November issue of Kadokawa’s Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine revealed on Friday that the third season of A Certain Scientific Railgun (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun) anime will premiere in January 2020. The anime will air in Japan on AT-X, Tokyo MX, MBS, BS11, and Abema TV.

fripSide are performing the opening theme song, and Kishida Kyōdan & The Akeboshi Rockets are performing the ending theme song.

The staff announced the new season at the “Dengeki Bunko 25th Anniversary Fall Dengeki Festival” event in October 2018. The anime was originally slated to premiere in 2019.

Tatsuyuki Nagai is returning to direct the anime at J.C. Staff. Shogo Yasukawa is in charge of series composition. Kentaro Izumi is the art director, Jin Aketagawa is the sound director, and Shingo Fukuyo is returning as the director of photography. Yuichi Tanaka is returning as the character designer, Tomomi Andō is returning to work on color design, and Maiko Iuchi is returning to compose the music.