While the full breadth of the fighting game community came together to celebrate the Evolution Championship Series, more commonly known as Evo, in Las Vegas this August, one developer was particularly prominent and prolific at this year’s event: Arc System Works. The Japanese video game studio had three games represented at the tournament’s main stage competitions – Guilty Gear Strive , Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising , and Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] – and two additional titles as part of the event’s extended lineup – Guilty Gear Xrd REV2 and BlazBlue: Central Fiction . There are more games represented from one company than any other studio at Evo’s marquee competitions this year.
Beyond the main stage and extended competitions at Evo 2025, Arc System Works presence cou