Million Arthur: Arcana Blood coming to Japanese arcades on Nov. 21

Square-Enix's upcoming 2-D fighter has a release date at the end of November 2017.

Million Arthur: Arcana Blood will be launching in Japan on Nov. 21, 2017, three days after a nationwide location test.

Originally announced in January, MAAB features anime-style gameplay and uses "Support Knight" cards that act as assists. The game also features characters from Square-Enix's classic Seiken Densetsu series.

Readers can check out the game's opening cinema scene after the jump.

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Seiken Densetsu characters join Million Arthur: Arcana Blood

Lise and Hawkeye from Square-Enix's Seiken Densetsu franchise, also known as Mana, will be making an appearance in the company's upcoming fighting game.

Announced in January 2017, Million Arthur: Arcana Blood is a 2-D fighter developed by Square-Enix featuring "Support Knight" cards that act as assists. It is currently being developed for Taito's NESiCAxLive 2 platform with a target release date of fall 2017. 

The characters Lise and Hawkeye appear from Seiken Densetsu 3, a game that has never been officially released outside Japan.

The official Seiken Densetsu Twitter account has posted a short clip of Lise, which readers can check out below.

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Square-Enix announces Million Arthur fighting game Arcana Blood

Japanese arcades will have a fighting game adaptation of a card-based mobile game series called Million Arthur this Fall.

Fully named Million Arthur: Arcana Blood, this Square-Enix published game influenced by the legend of King Arthur will be an anime-style 2-D fighter. Based on the footage after the jump, players can expect mechanics like air-dashing and bursts. Special to MAAB is the "Support Knight" cards which act as assists. Players can equip a set of three cards with each requiring a certain amount of assist points to use.

There are currently five characters confirmed so far and the game will have a playable build at this year's Japanese Amusement Expo on Feb. 10-12. The final release will be running on Taito's NESiCAxLive 2 platform.

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Persona fighters, Nitroplus Blasterz join US Round 1 NESiCA library

Round 1 locations in the United States are adding three games to their NESiCAxLive game selection on July 1: Nitroplus Blasterz, Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena and Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold.

While the first two titles are already available on consoles in North America, P4U2 was updated in Japan in January 2015 to version 2.0 on the NESiCA system but that update never reached home systems.

The P4U2 update contains many changes to both the system and individual characters, which left players in the U.S. disappointed by the seeming abandonment of support for the title.

King of Fighters titles added to US Round 1 NESiCAxLive library

Round 1 has announced that three more games are now available to play on their NESiCAxLive system all throughout the United States.

The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match Final Edition and King of Fighters XIII Climax are now playable. All three titles have all been previously released on Steam, but before that had received no release outside of Japanese arcades.

The addition of these three games is another step forward in Round 1's U.S. expansion of the NESiCA system, and brings hope to people who would like to see some of the service's more niche titles at U.S. Round 1 locations.

NESiCAxLive Comes to the United States

Update: Due to licensing issues with much of the NESiCA catalog, only BlazBlue Chronophantasma Extend and Ultra Street Fighter IV will be playable on the cabinets for the time being.

Original Story: The popular online-only service NESiCAxLive, which allows arcade cabinets to download the newest games, is coming to the United States at Round 1. The R1 location at Puente Hills Mall in the City of Industry, California, currently has the machines up and running and invited locals to come check the machines out.

According to Jyosua, the machines at Round 1 still have to download all the data from the service but once complete every NESiCA game will be available. This includes the update to Persona 4 Arena Ultimax that has not been available to console gamers.

The City of Industry location was the first Round 1 in the United States and has often been used to test systems that could be put in place at locations around the country. While there is currently no information about NESiCA spreading to the rest of the R1 locations around the U.S., this could be the first step in a countrywide expansion.