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BlazBlue
is a fighting game series created by Arc System Works, and later localized in North America by Aksys Games and by Zen United in Europe. An anime series adaptation aired in 2013. The series has sold 1.7 million copies in August 2012. The game franchise's creator, Toshimichi Mori, left Arc System Works, and established NetEase's company Studio Flare. Games Main series Updated versions Spin-offs Other media Novels Manga Anime Other Characters The series has the roster with each game releases, with the wave of playable characters from ''Calamity Trigger'' and other ones with different personalities in ''Central Fiction''. They made appearances on game crossovers and other associated media. Events and merchandise Two official events, and (contraction of "BlueFestival"), were held in June 2009 and February 2010. It features a variety of posters, artbooks, apparel, and figurines. On February 11, 2017, Arc System Works announced a collaboration with Tecmo Koei's T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calamity Trigger
''BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger'' (ブレイブルー カラミティ・トリガー) is a 2D fighting game developed by Arc System Works. The game's name is a combination of the words "blaze" and "blue" when the title is rendered in rōmaji, and of the words "brave" and "blue" when rendered in katakana. As Japanese people usually follow the katakana rendering, the Japanese pronunciation is made similar to the word "bray", entirely omitting the "z" sound. The game was released for the arcade in 2008, and for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows. A port for the PlayStation Portable, titled ''BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Portable'', was released in 2010. It was the first game of the main series. Gameplay ''BlazBlue'' is a traditional 2D fighter where two characters participate in a duel. A round is called a "rebel" and one match can consist of one to five "rebels". To win a round, one player must either defeat the other by inflicting damage through various attacks to reduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aksys Games
Aksys Games Localization, Inc. is a video game publisher that specializes in translating and localizing Japanese video games for English-speaking markets. It was founded by Akibo Shieh in 2006. Some of its clients include Bandai Namco Games, Xseed Games, and Atlus USA. Aksys Games is best known for its involvement in the ''Guilty Gear (series), Guilty Gear'' series, as well as for publishing numerous otome games in English. It has become a full-fledged game publisher with the announcement of ''Eagle Eye Golf'' for PlayStation 2, and has expressed a desire to publish for all current platforms from Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony. The company's name is coincidentally similar to Arc System Works, with whom it has a partnership. Despite their similar names, and the partnership between them, neither company owns the other. Aksys Games publishes many games for Arc System Works in North America, and has even assisted the latter in releasing the ''Bit.Trip'' series in Japan. Aksys is als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arc System Works
, commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and video game publisher, publisher located in Yokohama. Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including ''Guilty Gear'' and ''BlazBlue.'' They have also developed other fighting games using external licenses, including ''Dragon Ball FighterZ'', ''Persona 4 Arena'' and ''Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Arena Ultimax'', Granblue Fantasy Versus and Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, ''Versus Rising'', ''Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls'', and others. History The company was founded in January 1988 and incorporated as Arc Co., Ltd. in May. The company spent early years as a contract developer for Sega, Sammy Corporation, Sammy, and Banpresto. It consisted at the time of around eight developers; most of whom had previously worked at Sega including founder Minoru Kidooka. It was renamed Arc System Works in 1991. In 1992 they developed a game for the Famicom called ''Pizza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisuke Ishiwatari
is a Japanese video game developer, illustrator, musician, composer, and voice actor. He is best known for creating the 2D fighting game series ''Guilty Gear''. He designed the characters and storyline, and wrote the music. He also formerly provided the in-game voices for the characters Sol Badguy and Order-Sol, as well as Freed Velez in '' Battle Fantasia''. Ishiwatari was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in Japan. Ishiwatari worked with Arc System Works on the first ''Guilty Gear'' as soon as he left school. Ishiwatari, along with Yoshihiro Kusano, also wrote the music for ''BlazBlue'', and painted the character selection portraits for the sequel, '' BlazBlue: Continuum Shift.'' Ishiwatari is also a metal and rock composer, with many of his games featuring his music. His compositions feature intricate guitar work. The albums ''Guilty Gear XX in LA'' and ''Guilty Gear XX in NY'' include his vocals, as do three albums in Japanese by the band ''Lapis Lazuli.' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mako Komao
is a Japanese author of several light novel adaptations of manga, anime and visual novel series. This includes a single novel adaptation of '' Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl'', a manga originally written by Satoru Akahori and illustrated by Yukimaru Katsura. Komao also wrote five light novels based on the ''Gift'' visual novel and wrote the original concept for the manga series the ''First Love Sisters''. Works * ''First Love Sisters'', serialized in ''Yuri Shimai'' and then ''Comic Yuri Hime'' magazine, 2003–08, 3 volumes, Story * '' Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl'', published by 2006, 1 volume * ''Togainu no Chi True Blood'', published by Kadokawa, 2009, 1 volume * '' Ange Vierge Linkage'', serialized in Kadokawa's ''Dragon Age'' magazine, 2014–15, Writer, 2 volumes * ''BlazBlue'' light novels, author ** ''Blazblue: Phase 0'', published by Kadokawa, 2010 ** ''BlazBlue: Phase Shift'', published by Kadokawa, 2010–12, 4 volumes ** ''BlazBlue 1: Calamity Trigger (above) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NetEase
NetEase, Inc. () is a Chinese Internet technology company founded by Ding Lei in June 1997. It provides online services with content, community, communications, and commerce. The company develops and operates online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services, and e-commerce platforms in China. It is one of the largest Internet and video game companies in the world. The company owns multiple pig farms. NetEase has an on-demand music-streaming service ( NetEase Cloud Music). The video games include, '' Fantasy Westward Journey'', ''Tianxia III'', ''Heroes of Tang Dynasty Zero'', and ''Ghost II''. NetEase operated the Chinese version of Blizzard Entertainment games from 2008 to 2023, such as ''World of Warcraft'', '' StarCraft II'', and '' Overwatch''. NetEase trades on the Chinese and American stock markets. The company trades as 9999 on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and NTES on Nasdaq. History Ding Lei founded the company in June 1997. It grew due in part to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fighting Game
The fighting game video game genre, genre involves combat between multiple characters, often (but not limited to) one-on-one battles. Fighting game combat often features mechanics such as Blocking (martial arts), blocking, grappling, counter-attacking, and chaining attacks together into "Combo (video games), combos". Characters generally engage hand-to-hand combat, often with martial arts, but some may include weaponry. Battles are usually set in a fixed-size arena along a two-dimensional Plane (mathematics), plane, where characters navigate the plane horizontally by walking or dashing, and vertically by jumping. Some games allow limited movement in 3D space, such as ''Tekken (video game), Tekken'' and Soulblade while some are set in fully three-dimensional environments without restricting characters' movement, such as Power Stone (video game), ''Power Stone'' and ''Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm''; these are sometimes referred to as "3D arena" fighting games. The fighting game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Lockout
A regional lockout (or region coding) is a class of digital rights management preventing the use of a certain product or service, such as multimedia or a hardware device, outside a certain region or territory. A regional lockout may be enforced through physical means, through technological means such as detecting the user's IP address or using an identifying code, or through unintentional means introduced by devices only supporting certain regional technologies (such as video formats, i.e., NTSC and PAL). A regional lockout may be enforced for several reasons, such as to stagger the release of a certain product, to avoid losing sales to the product's foreign publisher, to maximize the product's impact in a certain region through localization, to hinder grey market imports by enforcing price discrimination, or to prevent users from accessing certain content in their territory because of legal reasons (either due to censorship laws, or because a distributor does not have the rights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime News Network
Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan. The website offers reviews and other editorial content, forums where readers can discuss current issues and events, and an encyclopedia that contains many anime and manga with information on the staff, cast, theme music, plot summaries, and user ratings. The website was founded in July 1998 by Justin Sevakis, and operated the magazine '' Protoculture Addicts'' from 2005 to 2008. Based in the United States, it has separate versions of its news content aimed toward audiences in five separate regions: the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and India. History The website was founded by Justin Sevakis in July 1998. In May 2000, CEO Christopher Macdonald joined the website editorial staff, replacing editor-in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo 3DS
The is a foldable dual-screen handheld game console produced by Nintendo. Announced in March 2010 as the successor to the Nintendo DS, the console was released originally on February 26, 2011 and went through various revisions in its lifetime, produced until 2020. The system features backward compatibility with the Nintendo DS's library of video games. As an Eighth generation of video game consoles, eighth-generation console, its primary competitor was Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony's PlayStation Vita. The most prominent feature of the 3DS is its ability to display Stereoscopy, stereoscopic 3D images without the use of 3D glasses or additional accessories. Other features of the 3DS include its StreetPass and SpotPass tag modes that were powered by Nintendo Network, #Augmented reality, augmented reality capabilities using its Stereo camera, 3D camera system, and Virtual Console, which provides a method for users to download and play video games originally released for olde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock, Paper, Shotgun
''Rock Paper Shotgun'' is a British video game journalism website. It was launched in July 2007 to focus on PC games and was acquired by Gamer Network, a network of sites led by ''Eurogamer'', in May 2017. History ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' was founded by Kieron Gillen, Jim Rossignol, Alec Meer and John Walker in August 2007. Gillen announced that he would no longer be involved in posting the day-to-day content of ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' in 2010, focusing more on his work with Marvel Comics. Rossignol founded his own game studio, Big Robot, in 2010. Meer and Walker left in 2019. In June 2010, ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' began an advertising partnership with the Eurogamer Network. Also in the year, ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' partnered with ''Eurogamer'' to create Rezzed, a PC and indie games show spun off from the Eurogamer Expo. In May 2017, Gamer Network acquired the site outright. A year later, website has partnered again with EGX to launch a new game jam, designed to showcase a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo Switch
The is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. Released in the middle of the Eighth generation of video game consoles, eighth generation of home consoles, the Switch succeeded the Wii U and competed with Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One; it also competes with the Ninth generation of video game consoles, ninth generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox Series X/S. The Switch is a Tablet computer#Gaming tablet, tablet that can either be docking station, docked for home video game console, home console use or used as a handheld game console, portable device, making it a Video game console#Hybrid video game consoles, hybrid console. Its wireless Joy-Con controllers function as two halves of a standard controller and alternatively as individual controllers, featuring buttons, directional analog sticks for user input, motion sensing, and tactile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
