Guilty Gear Strive has been carrying the banner of Arc System Works’s tenured fighting game franchise since 2021, with four seasons of downloadable characters following in the years since launch. The game was conspicuously absent from the recent Arc System Works Showcase, and a new report may have revealed why; the next Guilty Gear has reportedly been cancelled.
Via Insider Gaming and according to anonymous sources, the follow-up to Guilty Gear Strive has been internally cancelled by Arc System Works. The cancellation, per the report, happened “within the last couple of weeks,” and while the new title is reportedly “back to the drawing board,” the Insider Gaming article says the game is not completely dead.
The news comes after other recent reports say that Arc System Works still has “something big and exciting” planned for the franchise. Speaking with Dexerto at Anime Expo, series producer Ken Miyauchi said while some may think Strive will no longer receive updates after season four, “that’s actually not true” and that the team is “preparing something big and exciting that people probably won’t expect.”
While the future of Guilty Gear may be unknown, the same cannot be said for Arc System Works itself, as the firm has announced multiple projects both being developed and published by ASW. The PlayStation State of Play last month ended with Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls–a 4v4 fighting game starring Marvel heroes and villains–while the Arc System Works Showcase revealed multiple upcoming titles, including a new Bubble Bobble.
Guilty Gear Strive is available now for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
