This Sunday, Arc System Works is celebrating its 25th anniversary with ARC SYSTEM WORKS FESTIVAL (ArcFes). Its largest event in history, Arc will be commemorating the occasion with live music and programs, original products and their biggest national tournament ever, ARC REVOLUTION CUP (ArcRevo). ArcFes will be held at the Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall in [...]

This Sunday, Arc System Works is celebrating its 25th anniversary with ARC SYSTEM WORKS FESTIVAL (ArcFes). Its largest event in history, Arc will be commemorating the occasion with live music and programs, original products and their biggest national tournament ever, ARC REVOLUTION CUP (ArcRevo). ArcFes will be held at the Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall in [...]

Last weekend saw the start of the qualifier period for the ARC REVOLUTION CUP. ArcRevo consists of singles tournaments for Arc System Works’ three major arcade fighting game titles: BlazBlue Chronophantasma, Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena, and Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R. Players who qualify at their arcade store qualifier proceed [...]

Important Foreword: Winners listed below will need to specifically claim their prize, so please read this article in full! Prizes not claimed by 11:59 PM EST of February 24, 2013 (Sunday) will be forfeit and may be reassigned. In conjunction with Atlus USA, Shoryuken.com is pleased to announce the winners of the Persona 4 Arena PlayStation [...]

Another month, another Mix Up Night tournament! As the name implies, the MUN series has mixture of tournament games. Changing the pace from last month’s tournament, which featured SSFIV AE and UMvC3, this month’s event is for Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena and The King of Fighters XIII. And as usual, today’s tournament [...]

With Persona 4 Arena’s recent PlayStation Network release, Atlus USA and Shoryuken.com are teaming up to offer free copies to twenty-five (25) lucky readers. Read on for your chance to win! How to Enter: Leave a comment on this article, with your SRK forums username at the bottom of the comment, explaining why you want [...]

To commemorate its 25th anniversary, Arc System Works is holding an event in Japan called the ARC SYSTEM WORKS FESTIVAL (ArcFes). One of the events set to be a part of this convention is the ARC REVOLUTION CUP (ARC CUP or ArcRevo), the previously unnamed tournament announced in November 2012. ArcRevo will have tournaments for [...]

For those interested in picking up Persona 4 Arena in preparation for EVO 2013, now might be the perfect time to do so. Atlus and Arc System Works’ impressive fighter is currently on sale for the low price of $19.99 at Gamestop. This represents a substantial 60% discount for one of the best new fighting games [...]

Spike’s annual Video Game Awards show aired just a few days ago, bringing with it a number of nominees and winners decided by the show’s advisory board, which is made up of various personalities and writers from places like Kotaku, Polygon, and Giant Bomb. While it took breaks in 2007 and 2010, the Best Fighting [...]

2013 will mark the 25th anniversary of the creation of Arc System Works, the 15th anniversary of the Guilty Gear series and the 5th anniversary of the BlazBlue series. To commemorate this landmark year, Arc System Works has announced a massive scale tournament for Japan. In March 2012 was the BlazBlue series’ first official national [...]

During the recent election frenzy, many set their sights on the fighting game community and hypothesized on who deserved to lead us should the need arise. While an overall leader was discussed most frequently, individual subsets of the genre were overlooked in favor of the bigger picture. Enter SKD (aka Super Kawaii Desu, aka Kaqn’s [...]

LunaKage recently put together a great Persona 4 Arena combo video dedicated to Chie Satonaka. This video showcases her deadly pressure, and makes great use of One More Bursts and Power Charge to extend combos and add some extra flash to the proceedings. Source: LunaKage, tip via Daniel J.

Atlus USA recently posted a couple of vague messages regarding the v1.01 patch that hit Persona 4 Arena today on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. According to their official Facebook, the patch brought “an assortment of general, game balance, and network issues, in addition to a bug that was preventing some players from obtaining [...]

The folks over at Mayonaka Midnight recently uploaded two new Yu Narukami videos for Persona 4 Arena. The first is a tutorial by SKD that covers One More Burst combos and the best way to apply them to your gameplay, while the second is a general combo video created by Persona4Player and Katsuragi. If you’re [...]

Earlier this month, Jourdal uploaded a Persona 4 Arena video from Nico Video that served as a great tutorial on Mitsuru’s mid-screen combos. Come to find out, this video was actually part of a new tutorial series put together by Masahiro. Similar to his Kanji combo tutorials, these videos provide a great resource for new [...]