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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Key people Minoru Kidooka (managing director) Products BlazBlue seriesDouble Dragon seriesGuilty Gear seriesJake Hunter seriesKunio-kun seriesPersona 4 Arena Revenue ¥680 million (July 2006) 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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