Today at EVO 2018, Arc System Works made two announcements. The first was that a competitive pro-tour is to run next year on multiple ArcSys anime fighters, while the second was the slightly muted announcement of a new title in the long-run...

It's that time of year again, The Evolution Fighting Tournament 2018 - or EVO - is underway at the Mandalay Bay Hotel Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Many of the world's greatest fighting game players, along with commentators, personalities ot...

In celebration of EVO 2018, a few major fighting games have gone free to play for the weekend on Steam. The free-play event kicked off today and runs until Monday, August 6 at 10:00am Pacific. Some of the titles are merely discounted, but m...

EVO 2018 kicks off bright and early in Las Vegas on Friday morning with Dragon Ball FighterZ, and I feel like I need to clear my whole weekend to see just a fraction of the fighting-game-tournament fun. The EVO team shared the streaming sch...

We are happy to announce that Kinda Funny's Greg Miller and Nick Scarpino will be at our parent company's upcoming event, October 26th...

This weekend VS Fighting 2018 took place at Millennium Point in Birmingham, U.K. As expected, hundreds upon hundreds of FGC members gathered from across Europe to throw down for a three-day rumble on the the most popular fighters of today.T...

We're less than two weeks out from EVO 2018, a fact that both excites me (because it's fun to watch old rivalries play out on a big stage) and terrifies me (because time moves way too fast). As ever, the fighting game tournament will culmin...

In celebration of Guilty Gear's 20th anniversary, Arc System Works is bringing the original Guilty Gear to Nintendo Switch, PC, and PlayStation 4. The studio recently announced the ports on-stream. With Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Plus R s...

At the Nexon Developer's Conference in South Korea, developer Arc System Works announced that their classic anime fighter Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R is to be reborn on the Nintendo Switch.GGXX A Plus R originally launched in Japanese...

In case you were completely lost as to what BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle entails, developer Arc System Works just put out a four minute long plus overview on YouTube that reviews the cast and provides a general rundown of how the game wo...

Kinetiquettes has made a pretty solid name for themselves since they burst onto the scene several years ago. For the most part, they have focused on Capcom characters for their releases, specifically the shoto characters from Street Fighter...

Red Bull, purveyors of small cans of weirdly-popular energy drinks, have announced that they are throwing their hat into the eSports ring with the announcement of "Red Bull Conquest", a fighting game circuit featuring some of the genre's bi...

While its name doesn't necessarily conjure up fighting games, this week's Humble Brawler Bundle hits the mark where it counts: it has some good games for cheap. The $1 tier is pretty special. Pay $1 or more: Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus...

A few weeks ago, Arc System Works announced that a "Game Balance Refinement Update" would be heading to anime fighter Guilty Gear Xrd: Rev 2. Some new details have finally been uncovered for said update, which goes live on consoles next mon...

Daisuke Ishiwatari is a tireless man. If you haven't seen the toco toco game creator special on him, watch it immediately...I'll wait. That mini-documentary was two years ago, but when asked how long he was interested in making games, just ...

Arc System Works is holding a press event in the US this week, and I had the opportunity to speak with Toshimichi Mori (Producer and BlazBlue series creator), and Daisuke Ishiwatari (Director and Designer of Guilty Gear) regarding the ...

Fans of Arc System Works' classic Guilty Gear series will be happy to know that Xrd Rev 2 will be getting a balance update next month. There isn't much about who is getting tweaked or what is going to change, but the game will soon be updat...

This week sees the first ever EVO Japan fighting game tournament take place in Tokyo. Not that it has seen much pomp and circumstance, with little marketing, reports or Western media coverage leading up to the event. That hasn't stopped the...

My friend Johnny and I had a complicated relationship based around loneliness, a mutual sense of humor, drugs, booze, and video games. I’m not sure if we were ever really friends. One time he tried to open up to me about his dad and t...

Anime fighting game developers Arc System Works have released a video sending gratitude and good wishes to their fans at the start of 2018, which is set to be one of the company's most successful years in some time.In the light-hearted, sli...

This past week, I was handed a story from Soranews24 of a tweet about a Japanese father. What followed was his own personal chronicle of how he met his daughter's boyfriend and challenged him to a match of Guilty Gear as a show of dominance...

Developers Arc System Works, known the world over for their explosive and visually stimulating anime fighting games, have announced the establishment of a new branch of the company, opening in the good old U.S of A.The new division is situa...

This weekend saw the Celtic Throwdown fighting game tournament take place in Ireland, with some of the FGC's most recognisable names gathering to battle on all the top titles of today.The brawl erupted out of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Blanc...

It was a big weekend for fighting game tournaments across the globe. Having lent my private jet to a friend, it was easiest for me to travel an hour up the road to attend VS Fighting 2017 at Millennium Point in Birmingham.It was a fun weeke...

Another Evolution Fighting Championship has come to an end. Thousands of fight-fans descended on Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this weekend to test their mettle against the world's top players in major and minor tournaments. When the dust settl...

As we limp into summer, a couple of fighting game updates released with relative success in Japan last week. Although sales across the board are lower at this time of year, Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers and Guilty...