Arc System Works is celebrating its 25th year of being in business and this arcade stick is a special item for the company’s anniversary. It’s a PS3 stick with interchangeable face plates.

Arc System Works is having a 25th anniversary sale and slashed 25% off the price of Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus. You can get the game from Xbox Live for 900 Microsoft points ($11.25) instead of the usual 1,200 Microsoft points ($15).

Why isn’t Chasing Aurora available? Well, developers need a company that’s owned in Japan (i.e. 51% or more of the shares) to publish a downloadable game for Wii U or Nintendo 3DS in Japan.

Arc System Works has three PlayStation Vita projects – BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core R, and NAX Music Player. We covered NAX Music Player a couple of times and just to be clear – it is not a game.

FK Digital shares a copyright for the title along with Arc System Works. They’re the studio behind the fighting game Chaos Code, which was shown running on a PS3 earlier this year.

Guilty Gear creator, Daisuke Ishiwatari, says that DLC and merchandise sales are affecting the way Arc System Works develop their games.

Famitsu’s list of New Year’s messages from publishers includes a note from King of Fighters developer SNK Playmore. The publisher says they plan to begin creating social games of various genres.

Fighting game developer Arc System Works also happens to be one of the biggest supporters of the Nintendo eShop.

With only three titles, the 3D games folder in the Nintendo eShop is tiny in North America. Japan’s 3D section is a tad bigger thanks to BlazBlue developer Arc System Works.

We shifted topics and discussed Toshimichi Mori’s ideas for an action game and the possibility of series crossovers in the BlazBlue universe.

After Sega and Sammy merged, Guilty Gear became an issue. Arc System Works developed the game, but Sega Sammy Holdings owned the IP. A trademark for Guilty Gear filed by Arc System Works shows the studio reclaimed the rights to the series.

When Siliconera spoke to Ishiwatari-san we asked him about the future of fighting games and the company he works for, Arc System Works.

Arc System Works made a charity BlazBlue collectable for Japan. They’re selling t-shirts with super-deformed Tsubaki, Ragna, and Noel holding hands around the word “hope.”

Aksys representative pegs Arcana Heart 3 for an April release in North America.

Arch rivals Bahamut and Leviathan can take down Tiberius together if you purchase a Hard Corps: Uprising downloadable content pack.