Guilty Gear's latest chapter is its most accessible one yet, a righteous display of power and attitude that unleashes the sickest of heavy metal guitar licks and unrelenting style. Its online matchmaking may still need some work before it's ready for the main event, but Arc System Works has delivered a captivating display of coolness and action.

Guilty Gear Strive is setting a new gold standard for online play and has reinvigorated my love for fighting games.

You wouldn’t hit a leather-loving sorceress wearing spectacles and a sorting hat from Harry Potter going through its heavy metal phase, would you? Game set and match.

Guilty Gear Strive won’t be launching in 2020. I’ll give you guess as to why, but here’s a clue: It rhymes with “lowered nine beans”.

The latest chapter in the Guilty Gear saga is heavenly for your thumbs, hell for your eyeballs.

After Dragon Ball FighterZ and a production hand in the rather spiffy Kill La Kill IF, Arc System Works deserves to slather a few tubs of butter all over itself because this company is clearly on a roll. HAW. The future look bright, their games are the cream of the crop within digital fisticuffs circles and the sky is the limit. So what’s their next project then? A return to their roots, with a brand new Guilty Gear.

With Dragon Ball FighterZ creating a super-powered bout of pugilism that relies less on overly-intricate movesets, Arc System Works is taking plenty of inspiration from that Big Bang Attack success story for the next Guilty Gear title.

Got an empty weekend? Fill it up with all the fighting action taking place at Evo 2015! There will be eight twitch channels providing almost constant action right up to Sunday evening!