Overview
- Number of Players
- 2
- Genre
- Release Date
PlayStation 5
11th Jun 2021
11th Jun 2021
PlayStation Store
- 11th Jun 2021
- 11th Jun 2021
- Also Available On
- Series
- Tags
- Official Site
- guiltygear.com
Reviews
Ride the fire
Guilty Gear has always been massively underappreciated as a fighting game series. The franchise, which first threw punches on the original PlayStation all the way back in 1998, has steadily accumulated an incredibly loyal fanbase over the last couple of decades, but it's never been able to crack a more mainstream crowd. And that's a...
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Guilty Gear Strive Guides
Guide Evo 2025 Schedule: All Games, Times, and Livestreams (Sunday, 3rd August)
Your local times included
Looking for the Evo 2025 schedule? Well look no further than this handy guide. Below, we've categorised the whole event by day and game, complete with relevant time zones — including your own local time — and links to each official livestream. This year, Evo is based around eight major fighting games: Street Fighter 6,...
Guide Evo 2024 Schedule - All Games, Times, and Livestreams
Complete with your local times
Need an Evo 2024 schedule? Well, look no further than this guide. We've gathered all of the tournament times that you need to know if you plan on watching this year's event, complete with times for different time zones — including your own local time — and links to each livestream. This year's Evo is built around...
Guide Evo 2023 Schedule Day 3: All Start Times and Where to Watch
Stream all the action
When is Evo 2023? If you're asking that question, you're probably set on watching the world's largest fighting game tournament unfold over the course of the weekend. The Sony-backed event runs over the course of three days, and all of it is being streamed live on Twitch. Just so that you don't miss out on the action, we've put...
Guilty Gear Strive News
News Guilty Gear Strive Shocks Players with Confirmation of a Second Guest Character
Coming in winter 2026
Guilty Gear Strive raised eyebrows over the weekend with an announcement that took players — including myself — completely by surprise. Developer Arc System works confirmed that the fighter will be getting a second guest character, as part of the game's ongoing Season 5 offering. You may recall that back in August of last...
News These 4 New Challengers Are Coming to Some of PS5's Best Fighting Games
Ready, fight
The annual EVO fighting game championships are taking place in LA right now, which means we’re seeing a bunch of announcements trickle out of the event. While I’d expect more major reveals on the final day later tonight, several new character announcements and gameplay trailers have dropped over the past 48 hours for a variety of...
News Legendary Guilty Gear Creator Offers a Warning to AAA Game Developers
"It's very dangerous"
The main brain behind Guilty Gear, Daisuke Ishiwatari, has recently expressed some concern for the direction of AAA game development — and it's difficult to downplay said concerns when the man's such a creative icon. Speaking to 4Gamer (as translated by Automaton),
News Guilty Gear Strive 2.00 Reworks the Whole Game Five Years After Release
Jam packed
Guilty Gear Strive update 2.00 will arrive on the 9th April, essentially refreshing the entire game. In a move that's reminiscent of re-releases like Guilty Gear Xrd: Rev 2, Strive 2.00 will see the introduction of a new mechanic and a significant rework of existing characters. 2.00 will also pave the way for Season 5, which of course...
News Guilty Gear Strive 2.00 Will Get Its Big Reveal Later This Month
Blame the beasts
March is going to be an important month for Guilty Gear Strive fans, as the fighter, er, gears up for its big 2.00 reveal on the 22nd March. That's when developer Arc System Works' Arc World Tour 2025-2026 comes to a close, after a weekend of tournament play. The studio's confirmed that a trailer's going to be shown after Strive's...
News Guilty Gear Strive 2.00 Still on Schedule Despite Months of Silence
Still Striving
Announced all the way back in the summer of last year — during Evo 2025, to be precise — Guilty Gear Strive's 2.00 update is set to be a significant overhaul. The only problem is that we're still waiting on the details. Developer Arc System Works attached a very vague '2026' window to version 2.00, and it's been silent on the...
News Guilty Gear Producer Rubbishes Cancelled Game Rumour
Not Guilty
Last month, a report stated that a new Guilty Gear project had been cancelled at developer Arc System Works — but now, producer Ken Miyauchi says it was simply a made up rumour. Speaking to Dexerto, Miyauchi doesn't even try to dodge the question, replying: "It’s kind of funny, but I didn’t know about it. It was just a rumor...
News Guilty Gear Strives Tops a Once Unthinkable 3.5 Million Players
Still my heart is blazing
Guilty Gear Strive has now surpassed 3.5 million players since its launch in 2021. Given the series' obscure and incredibly niche roots, that's a seriously impressive figure. Strive has been an immense success for Arc System Works — and truth be told, it's probably surpassed the company's wildest expectations. This time...
Preem
It doesn't come as any huge surprise, but Arc System Works will continue its support for Guilty Gear Strive beyond Season 4, and into 2026. Guilty Gear Strive 2.00 will arrive next year — a major update that'll seemingly bring new characters to the fold. Said characters were teased after the game's Evo 2025 grand finals — and you can see...
Feature 4 Big Reasons Why You Should Watch Evo 2025 This Weekend
A huge year for fighting games
Evo 2025 is just around the corner, and the world's biggest annual fighting game event promises to be a true spectacle for a number of key reasons this year. We don't want to jump the gun and say that the fighting game scene is at a crossroads, but Evo is always a great barometer for how "healthy" the current crop of...
Previews
Hands On Guilty Gear Strive Is Shaping Up to Be the Next Great Fighting Game
Let's rock
Boy are we impressed with Guilty Gear Strive. We sank hours and hours and hours into the game's open beta over the last weekend, and we were still itching to play more when it shut down midweek. In short, we haven't been this excited for a fighting game since... Tekken 7, maybe, and that turned out to be a banger as well. Now don't get...
About The Game
The cutting-edge 2D/3D hybrid graphics pioneered in the Guilty Gear series have been raised to the next level in “GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-“. The new artistic direction and improved character animations will go beyond anything you’ve seen before in a fighting game!
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