A digital-only release happened in Europe in June 2015, and it was brought to Microsoft Windows via Steam on December 9, 2015. The first Xrd game, Guilty Gear Xrd Sign, was released in arcades on February 20, 2014, as the 5th main installment, and for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan and North America in December of the same year.
Following the storyline of the last game in the series, Guilty Gear 2: Overture, it introduced seven new characters. Guilty Gear Xrd was developed using Unreal Engine 3, with cel-shaded graphics in place of the series traditional hand drawn sprites. Guilty Gear Xrd is a fighting video game sub-series by Arc System Works and part of the Guilty Gear series.
