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Arc System Works has been highly visible over the past few years with its release of—and subsequent updates of—BlazBlue. However, the frenetic fighting game developer’s most famous and beloved creation, the Guilty Gear series, had fallen into the hands of Sega Sammy Holdings following Sammy Corporation’s merger with Sega. Since Sammy owned the Guilty Gear IP, it stayed with them during the merger. Now, evidence has surfaced, suggesting that Arc System Works has regained its fan-favorite fighting license. The studio recently filed a trademark for Guilty Gear in Japan, an action they could not have undertaken had Sega still held the rights to the property.  With any luck, this will herald the development and release of a true sequel to the highly acclaimed Guilty Gear XX—one informed by the studio’s compelling work on its BlazBlue series of 2D fighters—and wash the lingering taste of the DotA-esque mediocrity that was Guilty Gear 2: Overture from gamers’ collective palette. |