Well known for the Guilty Gear license, Arc System Works studio is currently working on a new fighting game, by the name of DNF Duel, announced at the Dungeon & Fighter Universe Festival which was held in South Korea this weekend. end. It is also Nexon, a South Korean publisher, who will take care of the game worldwide and at the same time specifies that DNF Duel is developed in collaboration between Arc System Works and 8ing, another Japanese studio used to Versus Fighting, since we owe them titles such as Bloody Roar 3 & 4, Naruto: Clash of Ninja (GameCube, 2003), Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 3 (GameCube, 2004), the Bleach: Heat the Soul series, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom (Wii, 2008) and more recently Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds.
This announcement was accompanied by a first 40-second video teaser that allows us to recognize without any difficulty the very dynamic style of Arc System Works which seems to use the same manufacturing diagrams to make its 2D game ultra dynamic, with change camera shots and zoom on the fly, thanks to the subtle and clever use of 3D. If we do not yet know what are the platforms on which DNF Dual will be marketed, but the PC is already confirmed. Obviously, the Dungeon & Fighter Universe license is unknown to Western players, but it will be an opportunity to give an international dimension to the franchise. For the record, know that Nexon specifies that there are more than 700 million registered players in the world, and that the series has already generated a turnover of 15 billion dollars. China and Asia in general have obviously been there.