Native name 株式会社アークシステムワークス Type of business Video game developer | Industry Video game industry | |
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Romanized name Kabushiki gaisha Āku Shisutemu Wākusu Key people Minoru Kidooka (managing director) Products BlazBlue series
Double Dragon series
Guilty Gear series
Jake Hunter series
Kunio-kun series
Persona 4 Arena Revenue ¥680 million (July 2006) Headquarters Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Founded May 1988, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Video games Guilty Gear Xrd, BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma, Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator, BlazBlue: Central Fiction, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Profiles | ||
Arc System Works Co., Ltd. (株式会社アークシステムワークス, Kabushiki gaisha Āku Shisutemu Wākusu) is a video game developer and publisher based in Yokohama, Japan. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, Arc System Works is best known for its arcade 2D fighting game franchises, Guilty Gear and BlazBlue.
History
Founded in 1988 as Arc Co., Ltd., it spent its early years as a contract developer for Sega, Sammy and Banpresto. On June 11, 2015, Arc System Works announced they had acquired all intellectual properties of Technōs Japan from Million Co., Ltd. On February 6, 2017, Arc System Works announced that they had acquired the rights to the Jake Hunter, Theresia, Nazo no Jikenbo, and Koneko no Ie series from developer WorkJam.
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