Two classic Arc System Works fighters blow up on the Nintendo Switch today, with the physical launch of the Guilty Gear 20th Anniversary Edition in Japan and Europe. North American fans can get in on the retro rumble via Guilty Gear XX Acce...

Last week brought some exciting news for fans of Arc System Works' anime fighter (no, not that one... or that one either) Granblue Fantasy: Versus, which is headed to PS4 sometime this year.First up was the reveal of a closed beta. This dem...

For all of you waiting for a quartet of new fighters in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, it seems that the wait is almost over. Arc System Works has announced that Character Pack 7 will finally be arriving on all platforms on May 21.This set, wh...

A listing has popped up on the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee website that appears to confirm a new entry in luscious anime fighter series Under Night In-Birth.The listing states that the awesomely titled Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late...

While the main plot of the upcoming Kill La Kill: IF will star Kiryuin Satsuki, an additional side story featuring anime protagonist Matoi Ryuko will be playable as well. Upon completing the main story mode, the extra scenario will be unloc...

Arc System Works and Bandai are rolling out another version of Goku soon: Kid Goku (GT). Based on the Dragon Ball GT anime series, this shocker of a character will have the ability to morph into the memorable Super Saiyan 4 mode, ...

Arc System Works has announced that the arcade release of their crossover fighting game BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle will be arriving at locations across Japan from next week.The arcade edition of the kinetic fighter, which stars characters f...

Following on from the mysterious rating we reported last week, Shantae developer WayForward and anime game gods Arc System Works have officially confirmed they are working together on a new entry in the face-smashing River City series.Detai...

Having released a selection of trailers for the four new characters headed to BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Arc System Works has announced that this wave of roster additions will arrive as paid DLC in the anime crossover fighter in May.The fo...

Arc System Works' has released the final character trailer for their wave of DLC fighters coming to BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle this Spring. Sweetie-pie Heart Aino will be the first character from niche series Arcana Heart to make an appeara...

Arc System Works has released a trailer for the next character coming to anime fighter BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. It features Under Night In-Birth's moody assassin character Seth, who will be added to the roster as paid DLC.Super Serious S...

Arc System Works has announced that Kill la Kill: IF will be launching on July 26 for PS4, Switch, and PC in North America and Europe. Along with that, some free DLC characters were revealed that will be released sometime later in the summe...

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle was in kind of a weird spot after its mid-2018 launch. It didn't get much buzz and was kind of stagnant for a while, but it's really exploding in a big way in the past month or so. Not only was a new series of DLC ...

Arc System Works has released a trailer showcasing the next in the loooooong line of DLC characters headed to their crossover fighting title BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. The next big-haired boy throwing down alongside their anime brethren is...

[Update: An English dub is confirmed for the western release.] It's great to see Kill la Kill still in the spotlight all these years later, and thanks to PQube, the new fighter is now coming to Europe. As announced on Twitter, the company i...

I've been following Evo for a while now and have personally reviewed nearly every game announced for the main stage this year: 2019 is a huge shift for myriad reasons. It's not just the fact that Melee is missing: there's a lot to unpa...

This weekend, Arc System Works announced a new batch of characters coming to their crossover fighting title BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. The new scrappers will be added to the arcade version of the game - which launches this Spring - and wil...

It's a commonly-held belief that Square Enix Kingdom Hearts has one of the most convoluted stories in video games. A commonly-held belief, that is, because it's entirely true. But fret not, because publishers Square Enix has dropped a serie...

Bandai Namco has finally confirmed that Jiren will be heading to Dragon Ball FighterZ. While he was probably the worst kept secret around, the company also revealed another three characters that will be heading to the hit fighter in season ...

Arc System Works and PQube have teamed up to deliver Guilty Gear 20th Anniversary Edition, which is now slated for a spring 2019 release date on Switch. It's basically a re-release of the 1998 original plus the already announced Guilty Gear...

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R is a fine Guilty Gear. After deciphering the title code that would put Kingdom Hearts to shame, you'll realize that this is actually a far removed upgraded version of 2002's Guilty Gear X2, which was also a...

The Japanese eShop has updated and BlazBlue: Central Fiction Special Edition now has a Switch demo ahead of its February release (it's already on PC, PS3 and PS4). All you have to do to start playing is log in with a Japanese eSho...

Earlier this year at E3, I sat down with Cygames to talk about some of their upcoming projects. It was an odd meeting because, in truth, I couldn't talk about much of what I was shown. In the post I wrote about the meeting, I alluded to the...

This weekend at ArcRevo Japan 2018, Nintendo has announced that upcoming anime fighter Kill la Kill: IF will be launching on Nintendo Switch, alongside its previously announced PC and PS4 platforms.The brawler, currently in development at A...

Arc System Works has been busy. In addition to all the fighters they've been pumping out they're bringing the Psikyo Collections to Switch, propelling the shoot 'em up (shmup) genre back into the forefront. Just today they announced the thi...