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Arc System Works is a Japanese video game company. Founded in 1988 as Arc Co., Ltd., it spent its early years laboring in obscurity as a contract developer for the likes of Creator/{{Sega}}, Face and Banpresto before coming into its own as a publisher in 1995. Since then it has created quite a few of the modern {{fighting game}}s. Examples include ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', and ''VideoGame/BattleFantasia''.

Not to be confused with the similarly named but otherwise unrelated Creator/AksysGames, a North American distributor known for publishing many of their games in the US. They also have a European branch in the form of Zen United/[=pQube=].

The main team responsible for ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' and ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', originally named "Team Neo Blood," was composed of ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'', ''VideoGame/TheLastBlade'', and ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' developers from Creator/{{SNK}}, which explains why many characters in the first ''Guilty Gear'' game are blatant {{exp|y}}ies or amalgamations of characters from those games, and typical gameplay in their titles tends to be heavily high-damage and combo-oriented, with lots of juggling.

Since then, the company has split itself among two teams: [[RedOniBlueOni "Team Red" - focused more on ''Guilty Gear'', and "Team Blue", responsible for ''[=BlazBlue=]'' and other sprite-based games]].

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!!Early games developed by Arc for other companies:
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* ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'' (Platform/SegaGenesis version)
* ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' (Platform/SegaMasterSystem version)
* ''VideoGame/MichaelJacksonsMoonwalker'' (Platform/SegaMasterSystem version)
* ''VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}'' (Platform/GameBoy and [[Platform/TurboGrafx16 PC Engine]] versions)
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon''
** ''[[VideoGame/SailorMoonS Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S: Jougai Rantou!? Shuyaku Soudatsusen]]'' (uncredited, published by Angel)
** ''VideoGame/SailorMoonAnotherStory''
* ''[[VideoGame/SolomonsKey Zipang]]'' ([[Platform/TurboGrafx16 PC Engine]] version)
* ''VideoGame/Strikers1945 Plus'' (Platform/PlayStationPortable version)
* ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}''
** ''VideoGame/YsIVMaskOfTheSun'' (Platform/PlayStation2 version)
** ''VideoGame/YsVLostKefinKingdomOfSand'' (Platform/PlayStation2 version)

!!Games and series developed by Arc System Works (in whole or in part):
* ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart 3'' (console and PC ports only)
* ''VideoGame/ArcStyleBaseball3D''
* ''VideoGame/BattleFantasia''
* ''Birthdays the Beginning''
* ''Franchise/BlazBlue''
** ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger''
** ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift''
** ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma''
** ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction BlazBlue: Central Fiction]]''
** ''VisualNovel/XBlazeCodeEmbryo''
** ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle''
* ''[[VideoGame/ShikigamiNoShiro Castle Shikigami III]]'' (co-developed by Alfa System)
* ''VideoGame/ChaosCode'' (publisher)
* ''VideoGame/CodeShifter''
* ''Damascus Gear''
* ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonIV''
* ''Franchise/DragonBall''
** ''Anime/DragonBallZ: Supersonic Warriors''
** ''Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden''
** ''VideoGame/{{Dragon Ball FighterZ}}''
* ''VideoGame/DNFDuel'' (co-developed by Creator/EightingRaizing)
* The ''Family/Okiraku [X]'' game series on [[/index]]Platform/{{WiiWare}} and on Platform/{{Nintendo 3DS}} via eShop
* ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarTwinBlueStarsOfJudgment''
* ''VisualNovel/GetsueiAcademyKou'' (a former doujin game in collaboration with Creator/TomokazuSugita)
* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasyVersus'' (co-developed with Creator/{{Cygames}})
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear''
* ''VideoGame/{{Hoshigami|RuiningBlueEarth}} [[VideoGameRemake Remix]]''
* ''Inferno Climber''
* ''VisualNovel/JakeHunter''
* ''VideoGame/KillLaKillIF'' (publisher)
* ''Magical Beat''
* ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood Actress Again Current Code'' (publisher, Platform/{{Steam}} version)
* ''VideoGame/{{Mistover}}'' (publisher)
* ''Of Mice and Sand''
* ''Manga/OnePiece: Grand Pirate Colosseum''
* ''VideoGame/PizzaPop''
* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}} 2nd Encore'' (publisher, Japan)
* ''VisualNovel/TokyoTwilightGhostHunters'' (co-developed with Toy Box, Inc.)
* ''VideoGame/UnderNightInBirth'' (co-developed with French Bread)
* ''Wizard's Symphony''

!!Games and series acquired by Arc System Works from Technos Japan
* ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon''
* ''VideoGame/KunioKun''
* ''VideoGame/SuperDodgeBall''

!! Games and series developed by Arc System Works (in part):
* ''[[VideoGame/AnotherCode Another Code: Recollection]]'' (in collaboration with Creator/{{Nintendo}})
* ''VideoGame/HardCorpsUprising'' (co-developed with Creator/{{Konami}})
* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}''
** ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' (in collaboration with Creator/{{Atlus}})
** ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'' (in collaboration with Creator/{{Atlus}})
* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasaraX'' (in collaboration with Creator/{{Capcom}})
* ''VideoGame/DNFDuel'' (In collaboration with Neople and Creator/{{Eighting}})
* ''VideoGame/RWBYArrowfell'' (co-developed with Creator/WayforwardTechnologies in collaboration with Creator/RoosterTeeth)
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