On November 2, 2017, the company announced the establishment of a North American branch in Torrance, California, known as Arc System Works America, Inc. On February 6, 2017, the company acquired the rights to the Jake Hunter, Theresia, Nazo no Jikenbo, and Koneko no Ie series from publisher WorkJam. Following the transaction, the company took the publishing duties from Aksys Games for Virtual Console releases in North America, though some Technōs games were already published by Arc System Works. Even prior to its acquisition of Million's library, the company had been the publisher of Technōs' video games for Virtual Console in Japan. On June 11, 2015, the company acquired all intellectual properties of Technōs Japan, such as Double Dragon and Kunio-Kun, from Million Co., Ltd. They published their first title in 1995 which was Exector for the PlayStation. The company produced a series of Sailor Moon video games for publisher Angel including Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon S: Jōgai Rantō!? Shuyaku Sōdatsusen which was the first fighting game they produced. In 1992 they developed a game for the Famicom called Pizza Pop!.

It consisted at the time of around eight developers most of whom had previously worked at Sega including founder Minoru Kidooka. The company spent early years as a contract developer for Sega, Sammy and Banpresto. The company was founded in January 1988 and incorporated as Arc Co., Ltd.

Founded by Minoru Kidooka in 1988, the company is known for arcade 2D fighting game franchises, including Guilty Gear and BlazBlue, as well as other license-based fighting games for Dragon Ball, Persona 4 Arena ( Ultimax), Granblue Fantasy Versus ( Rising) and others. ( アークシステムワークス株式会社, Āku Shisutemu Wākusu kabushiki gaisha), commonly referred to as ArcSys, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher located in Yokohama.

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