Qanba introduces limited edition Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 Obsidian

Qanba USA has announced a collaboration with Arc System Works to create a new version of the Obsidian joystick featuring artwork from Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2.

The art was designed by Guilty Gear creator Daisuke Ishiwatari and features several characters including Sol, Ky, Jack-O, Baiken, May, Kum Haehyun, Sin, Dizzy and Millia.

The stick itself contains the same features of the standard Obsidian, from Sanwa parts to compatibility with PlayStation 3, 4 and PC platforms. It joins fellow LE versions of the Obsidian designed for Soul Calibur VI and the Tekken World Tour. It is currently available on the Qanba USA website.

Arc System Works announces ArcRevo World Tour

The makers of Guilty Gear and BlazBlue have announced a new circuit of events that will put more than $100,00 into the pockets of players.

ArcRevo World Tour will see players competing for cash prizes in BlazBlue Central Fiction, BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle and Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 at tournaments across the globe. The action will start in the fall of 2018 and run for one year, culminating in the finals at ArcRevo America 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

So far 10 events have been named as ArcRevo qualifiers—Evo, Frosty Faustings, CEO and Texas Showdown in the U.S.; Revolution, Brussels Challenge and Headstomper in Europe; ArcRevo Japan and Evo Japan; and South East Asia Major—with more to be announced.

For more information on the ArcRevo World Tour, readers can check out the series' official website and watch the trailer after the jump.

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Summer Steam sale brings discounts to many fighters until July 5

A new sale running through the beginning of July 2018 is bringing sizable price cuts to many popular FGC titles across publishers.

Games with dedicated pro tours such as Tekken 7, Street Fighter V, Injustice 2 and Dragon Ball FighterZ are included as well as BlazBlue Central Fiction, Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, Killer Instinct, Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code, King of Fighters XIV, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite and more. The DLC for most of these fighters is also on sale under the current offer.

The Steam summer sale runs from June 21 to July 5, 2018, and includes plenty of titles across all genres. Readers can check out the full list of discounted games at Steam.

Red Bull Conquest circuit to feature Guilty Gear, Tekken, Street Fighter

Red Bull has announced a new tournament circuit that will feature Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, Tekken 7 and Street Fighter V.

Red Bull Conquest will feature 15 qualifiers, named Rally events, all around the United States, culminating in a grand finals tournament in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 16-18, 2018. The winner of each qualifying event, including a last-chance tournament, will be put into a final 16-person bracket to decide the champion for each game.

Conquest events will be held in "Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco and Seattle," with the first taking place on April 28 in Chicago, Illinois.

For more information or to register for Red Bull Conquest, readers can check out the official Red Bull website.

Console update for Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 launches March 1, 2018

The most recent patch to Rev 2, which released on Feb. 14 in Japanese arcades, will be coming home for console players at the beginning of March.

Arcade version 2.1 includes changes for all members of the cast, with varying numbers of alterations and levels of significance.

For now, the revision will only be launching for the PlayStation 3 and 4 iterations of Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2. The Steam version currently has no release date at this time.

Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 version 2.1 released

The newest revision to Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 has landed in arcades in Japan, bringing with it a list of changes to each character in the game.

The main news coming out of the patch is that seemingly all the changes that were made for the location test have been retained in the update. This means big changes for both Baiken and Answer, and buffs for characters such as I-No while Chipp has gotten nerfs.

These tweaks and alterations have been translated by GreatFernMan and can be found on Evernote. While the update is only in arcades for the time being, it is scheduled to be released on PC and console platforms sometime in March 2018.

Evolution 2018 lineup announced

In a sit-down interview with Mark Julio on Red Bull eSports, Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar revealed the games that will be part of Evo 2018.

The Evolution staff has chosen eight games for competition at this year's Evo: Tekken 7, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Guilty Gear Xrd Rev. 2, Injustice 2, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Dragoin Ball FighterZ.

Cuellar also revealed that Rev 2, Melee, T7, SBFZ and SFV will be the five games that are featured in the stadium during Evo Sunday finals.

In addition, Arc System Works made two announcements in videos. The first showed BBTag's Toshimichi Mori revealing that RWBY's Yang Xiao Long will be coming to the game and that both her and Blake Belladonna will be free DLC coming out soon after the game's release. The second featured Guilty Gear's Daisuke Ishiwatari saying that the game's new balance patch will be coming to the PC and console platforms in March 2018. 

Registration for Evo 2018 starts on Feb. 15 at 12 p.m. PST on the official Evo wbesite. Evolution 2018 is coming Aug. 3-5 at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevadad.

Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 version 2.1 comes to arcades on Feb. 14

After a short location test, the next update to Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 will be released in mid-February.

The new version will arrive roughly a month after Arc System Works announced its existence during the ASW Fighting Game Awards 2017. The company added a lengthy list of changes to the game for the location test (translations by GreatFernMan), but it is unknown which modifications have stuck for the update and which have been discarded. Hopefully ASW will provide a document listing the changes closer to or on release of the patch.

Although the update will also roll out to the console and PC platforms, no date was given for its release at this time.

Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 changes revealed, location test ongoing

The balance update coming to Guilty Gear Xrd has started its first location test, and Arc System Works has posted the character changes online.

Rev 2 version 2.1 will bring alterations to every character in Guilty Gear, although the number and depth of the changes will vary across the cast. The test began in Japan on Jan. 29 at three arcade locations and will run for an unannounced length of time.

Arc System Works has made the changes available in Japanese on its website, and GreatFernMan is currently translating and compiling them on Evernote.

New balance update coming to Guilty Gear Xrd

After the Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 tournament at its Fighting Game Awards 2017 event, Arc System Works announced that a new balance patch will be coming to the game.

This will be the first major update to Guilty Gear Xrd since Rev 2 launched in May 2017.

The company confirmed that all characters will receive changes as part of the new patch. No time frame or any other information about the update was made available at this time.

Final brackets, player introductions released for Arc System awards

Arc System Works has released two new competitor trailers and the final brackets for the tournaments at its upcoming Fighting Game Awards 2017 broadcast on Jan. 13, 2018.

The ASW Fighting Game Awards will feature two double elimination events—Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 and BlazBlue Central Fiction—featuring some of the strongest players of their respective characters. For Xrd, Nage (Faust), Ruki (Dizzy), Ogawa (Zato-1), Daru (I-No), Takehara (Ramlethal), Rion (Ky), Samitto (Chipp) and Omito (Johnny) will square off, while Monster (Izanami), Dora (Bang), Matoi (Kokonoe), Meister (Lamda-11), Grover (Carl), Iwashi (Ragna), Fenrich (Jin) and Film/Gackt (Hakumen) will fight it out in BBCF.

Interested viewers will be able to check out the stream with English commentary on the Arc System Works Twitch channel or on Niconico. Past iterations of the awards have also included new game and update announcements from ASW, so it is possible the tournaments will not be the only excitement for the event.

Readers can check out the player trailers and brackets after the jump.

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Mikado's Tenkaichi Budokai returns for third series

Mikado arcade in Japan will once again be holding its eight-person Guilty Gear league, Tenkaichi Budokai, this time from December 2017 into January 2018.

Tenkaichi Budokai is an arcade-based, offline league where eight of the best Guilty Gear players in the world are split into two groups in a round-robin format. The player with the most points in each group is then moved into the final round. Those two players will be joined by a third player who wins a "last chance qualifier" comprised of the next-highest-placing competitors.

Omito (Johnny), Ogawa (Zato-1), Zadi (Raven) and Haaken (Sol) will make up group A, while Nage (Faust), Tomo (Leo), Tourio (I-No) and Fumo (Elphelt) will make up group B.

The first round of competition begins on Dec. 23, 2017, with Omito squaring off against Zadi. All the action will be broadcast on Jonio's Twitch channel, with English commentary by MajinObama.

For more information on Tenkaichi Budokai 3, including small player profiles, readers can head to TwitLonger. Readers can also follow MajinObama and Jonio on Twitter for updates including potential schedule changes.

Archive of Godsgarden 12, all about Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2

The long-running Japanese tournament series Godsgarden continues on with Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 being the focus in this latest iteration.

The twelfth edition of Godsgarden took place on Oct. 8, 2017, at Tokyo, Japan's Ikebukuro Storia. The stream archive, found after the jump, features part of the initial preliminary matches and all of top eight. Much like past editions of Godsgarden, this tournament is running on consoles setups instead of arcade cabinets.

Featuring the best players from Japan, including Samitto, FAB, Nage and more, the six-hour archive of Godsgarden 12 is something to watch if you play Guilty Gear!

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Seven games announced for Evo Japan

Seven titles have been announced for the inaugural Evo Japan.

Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, King of Fighters XIV, Smash Bros. for Wii U, ARMS, BlazBlue Central Fiction and Street Fighter V round out the current roster of titles for the 2018 event. 

Evo Japan will be held on Jan. 26-28, 2018, at Akihabara UDX, which is close by Akihabara Station in Tokyo.

Readers can check out the new trailer after the jump.

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Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 update adds new digital figures, improvements

A new patch has been released in Japan for the PlayStation 3 and 4 versions of Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 containing a big update to Digital Figure Mode along with improvements and bug fixes.

The update brings new characters and poses to Digital Figure Mode, including nonplayable characters such as Ariels, Zappa, Robo-Ky, Gabriel and more. These can all be earned through fishing like other models.

The rest of the update includes small changes, like the ability to see a combo's list of inputs in training mode via "Combo Recipe Display," and fixes to bugs that prevented players from receiving the money bonus for clearing Answer and Baiken's combo trials or sitting at a machine in an online lobby. 

Though currently not available outside Japan, the update should be heading to other regions soon. Arc System Works did not reveal details on when the Steam version of the patch is coming, but did note that more story mode content will be added to Rev 2 in a different upcoming update.

"Tension Pulse" Rev 2 exhibition series debuts on June 22

The successor to the "Super Steam Xrd Exhibition League" will have its first event as June 2017 nears its end.

Originally scheduled to begin with the release of Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 on June 1, "Tension Pulse" was delayed because of unstable connections in the Steam version of the game. Now that Rev 2 has been patched, the exhibition series is ready to start again.

The first matches will see Blaze's Raven take on Woocash's Baiken and Faultydefense's Answer will fight TheArm's Ramlethal. The matches will take place starting at 9 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. PDT) with commentary from BeautifulDude and Samifish on Silva's Twitch channel.

Arc Revolution Cup returns on Oct. 21, 2017

Arc System Works has announced the date and titles that will be part of the 2017 edition of Arc Revolution Cup.

The competition will take place during Taito's Toushinsai event and includes Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, BlazBlue Central Fiction, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] and Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold.

Guilty Gear and BlazBlue will both be held as team events—Xrd will be teams of three, BBCF teams of two—while the other two games will be single player. Each competition will consist of 32 teams or players.

In the past, both teams from both Europe and the United States were given a chance to qualify for Arc Revo, but nothing has been announced at this time. 

'Execution Woes' takes on micro-dashing

Guilty Gear player and commentator Samifish's ongoing journal dedicated to improving his own execution in fighting games has now added an entry on micro-dashes.

While simple in theory—a micro-dash is just a small dash used to make moves combo when they otherwise would not—micro-dashes can be a tough concept for players to understand and execute properly.

Much like in his first entry, Samifish breaks his problem with a micro-dash combo into pieces and describes the thought process by which he tackles each issue individually until he is successful.

Readers can check out the article at Medium.

Rev 2 league brings online Guilty Gear to Europe starting June 13

With the release of Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2, a European league looks to bring the strongest players in the continent together with online play.

MechaGS and Dr_McN1njer will present the competition, which features 96 players broken up into 16 groups. Two players will advance out of each group to form top 32, and all matches from top 16 matches on will be streamed. 

The league will run every Tuesday and Thursday starting on June 13 at 7 p.m. British Summer Time (12 p.m. PDT, 2 p.m. EDT) with streaming on MechaGS' Twitch channel. For more information, readers can message Dr_McN1njer on Twitter.

'Execution Woes' explores Guilty Gear's jump install mechanic

Guilty Gear player and commentator Sami "Samifish" Nash has started a new journal chronicling his attempts to get better at combos and advanced techniques in Xrd.

Traditionally a Ky player, Nash realized that he had never needed to learn how to properly perform a jump install, and discusses his thought and playing process while trying to complete one of Chipp's trials. Nash first defines what a jump install is—with the help of Dustloop—and then breaks the whole sequence down into pieces that it was easier for him to later put together in the full combo.

Nash's take is an interesting read for players new to Guilty Gear or just those wondering how other competitors look at system mechanics. Readers can find it on Medium.