Arc System Works

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Note: At heart, this is still a dedicated Guilty Gear & BlazBlue club, the name change is just to generalise it.

Arc System Works (アークシステムワークス, Āku Shisutemu Wākusu) is a video game developer based in Yokohama, Japan. It was founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988. Arc System Works is best known for its arcade 2D fighter, Guilty Gear and its sequels.

There is also a kind of a "subdivision" of ArcSys in the United States named Aksys.

Aksys Games was founded by Akibo Shieh in 2006 as a localization company specializing in Japanese-to-English translation of games and anime. Some of their clientele include Namco Bandai, XSEED, and Atlus USA. Aksys Games is best known for its involvement in the Guilty Gear series. The company's name is derived from Arc System Works with whom they have a partnership (Arc System Works).

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Guilty Gear is a series of sprite-based fighting games by Arc System Works and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. It is popular with fans for its detailed anime-style graphics, original characters, hard rock/heavy metal soundtrack, unique gameplay, and its numerous references to rock and heavy metal music as well as its Gothic nature.

Even though the release of it's first game, Guilty Gear: The Missing Link for the Playstation One back in 1998 received praise from some video game presses, it didn't make much of an impact in the video game market, becoming more of a cult hit. However, with the release of Guilty Gear X for the Dreamcast in 2000, the series began to amass fans from all over the globe, reaching it's peak with Guilty Gear XX and it's consecutive revisions until now.

Guilty Gear is now hailed as one of the most competitive fighting games ever created, alongside other games like King Of Fighters, Street Fighter and others.

- Taken and adapted from Guilty Gear's Wikipedia Entry -

Games

Soundtracks

Drama CDs

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BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (ブレイブルーカラミティトリガー, Bureiburū Karamiti Torigā) is a two-dimensional fighting arcade game by Arc System Works, the staff behind the Guilty Gear series. It was released on November 19, 2008 in Japan and November 20, 2008 in the United States. It is a spiritual successor to Guilty Gear. The game is currently released for the Taito Type X2 arcade system board, with a 16:9 ratio and 768p resolution.

- BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger — (2008) Taito Type X2 (2009) PS3, 360
- BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Premium Edition (2009) PS3, 360
- BlazBlue Original Soundtrack (2008)
- BlazBlue Original Soundtrack ~Consumer Edition~ (2009)
- BlazBlue: Happy Trigger Drama CD (2009)
- BLAZBLUE Drama CD (2009)

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Official Sites (JP):
Arc System Works, ArcSystemWorks Official website.
Aksys Games, Aksys Games Official website.
Guilty Gear X Series, Official website of the Guilty Gear X Series.
BlazBlue -Calamity Trigger-, BlazBlue's Official Website.

Other Sites:
GuiltyGear.Ru Project, a fan-site with a vast database on Guilty Gear.
Dustloop, a Guilty Gear community.
BlazBlue - Calamity Trigger, fan-site.

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Asketh Ky to Sol, "Heaven or Hell?" and Sol, being of Gear did say "Let's Rock."
Roman Cancels 1:14

MEMORIZE IT.

REMINDER: Please, do not forget to buy ArcSys/Aksys games and merchandise whenever you can/want/have to. Why? Because they well so deserve all the support they can get. Or else we wouldn't have gotten what we have now.

tl;dr version: Just buy BlazBlue!