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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.

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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). Despite their similar names, neither company owns the other. Aksys Games publishes many games for Arc System Works in North America, and has even assisted the latter in releasing the Bit.Trip series in Japan.

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Zen United was founded in 2009 as a game publisher for a consortium of Japanese developers to release their games in Europe. So far, they have been working with Arc System Works to bring Guilty Gear and BlazBlue to Europe.

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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 -


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BlazBlue 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.


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Official Sites:
Arc System Works, ArcSystemWorks Official website.
Aksys Games, Aksys Games Official website.
Zen United, Zen United's Official website.
Guilty Gear X Series, Official website of the Guilty Gear X Series.
BlazBlue, BlazBlue's Official Website.

Other Sites:
GuiltyGear.Ru Project, a fan-site with a vast database on Guilty Gear.
Dustloop, a Guilty Gear/BlazBlue community.
Mizuumi, for all your poverty (not mainstream) fighter needs.
Homing Cancel, an Arcana Heart community.
Shoryuken, diverse fighting community, but specializes in Street Fighter.
Melty Bread, a Melty Blood community.
VFDC, a Virtua Fighter community.
Orochinagi, a King Of Fighters community.
Tekken Zaibatsu, a Tekken community.
Neo Empire, diverse fighting community.
iPLAYWINNER, diverse fighting community, home to the BBVlog and, recently, Team Sp00ky.
BROKENTIER, clothing for virtual punchy game players!
shrine-write, MM-sensei delivers you fightan game tutorials~. Among other stuff.


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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

REMINDER: Please, do not forget to buy ArcSys/Aksys/Zen United 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. Or just support the fightining game scene overall so that we can keep it healthy.

tl;dr version: Just buy BlazBlue and Guilty Gear.. and other fighters.

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Club Comments
Tenno_Seremel | 8 hours ago
It's good to be alive :}

srwgfan | Today, 3:28 AM

Enjoy Guys :)


Massaki | Yesterday, 11:55 AM
Maybe it's time to revive this place, no?

Chronophantasma and now GGXrd coming our way.

And ArcSys seems hellbent on blowing GGXrd everywhere.


Larcenist | 03-15-13, 12:52 PM
Pretty sure Continuum Shift 1 only was delayed 6 or 8 months, at least in Sweden. So I guess we will start hyping about half a year after the NA release.

weika | 03-15-13, 6:56 AM
If P4U took this long, BBCP EU..... のヮの

Larcenist | 03-15-13, 5:13 AM
Hey, we're getting Persona 4 Arena in 28 days, I have no idea what you're implying.

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Category: Companies
Created: Jan 22, 2008


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