Arc System Works is a Japanese video game company responsible for quite a few of the modern fighting games. Examples include
Guilty Gear,
BlazBlue and
Battle Fantasia. Most of their games are distributed in North America by
Aksys Games. The main team responsible for
Guilty Gear and
BlazBlue, originally named "Team Neo Blood", was composed of ex-
Darkstalkers,
Samurai Shodown,
Last Blade, and
The King Of Fighters developers, which explains why many characters in the first
Guilty Gear game are blatant
Expys 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.
Games and series developed by Arc System Works (in whole or in part)