{"id":20889,"date":"2018-05-18T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/blazblue_cross_tag_battle_enters_the_nintendo_switch_arena_on_22nd_june"},"modified":"2018-05-18T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:45:00","slug":"blazblue-cross-tag-battle-enters-the-nintendo-switch-arena-on-22nd-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/blazblue-cross-tag-battle-enters-the-nintendo-switch-arena-on-22nd-june\/","title":{"rendered":"BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Enters The Nintendo Switch Arena On 22nd June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/blazblue_cross_tag_battle_enters_the_nintendo_switch_arena_on_22nd_june\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/blazblue_cross_tag_battle_enters_the_nintendo_switch_arena_on_22nd_june\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news7.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/blazblue_cross_tag_battle_enters_the_nintendo_switch_arena_on_22nd_june\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/blazblue_cross_tag_battle_enters_the_nintendo_switch_arena_on_22nd_june\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news7.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Back in March we finally got news that PQube would be publishing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/blazblue_cross_tag_battle\"><strong>BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle<\/strong><\/a> in Europe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/the_fight_rages_on_as_pqube_brings_blazblue_cross_tag_battle_to_the_eu_this_summer\">putting an end to fears us 2D fighting fans<\/a> outside of Japan and North America would be left out in the cold. Well, that nebulous &#8216;summer 2018&#8217; release window has finally been whittled down to an actual date &#8211; 22nd June! Ta da!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re new to the series &#8211; and to this game in particular &#8211; it&#8217;s a 2D fighter which enables you to pick two characters from the BlazBlue universe along with those from Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth and RWBY. There&#8217;s a brand new Story mode, and an updated combat system to make it a little more palatable to newcomers.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\" readability=\"2.61403508772\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"7.84210526316\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The release date for BLAZBLUE CROSS TAG BATTLE in Europe is June 22nd on PS4 and Switch! The ultimate fighting crossover is almost there!<br \/>The open beta started today and boasts the full base roster of 20 characters on PS4! Offline demo (4char) from May 21st until release! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBTAG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BBTAG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oLP2CZJiiB\">pic.twitter.com\/oLP2CZJiiB<\/a><\/span>\u2014 PQube (@PQubeGames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PQubeGames\/status\/997425363000143872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Will you be picking up the latest entry in the BlazBlue series when it finally leaps &#8211; kicking and screaming &#8211; onto Nintendo Switch? Dust off your fighting shoes and leave a comment or two below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March we finally got news that PQube would be publishing BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle in Europe, putting an end to fears us 2D fighting fans outside of Japan and North America would be left out in the cold. Well, that nebulous &#8216;summer 2018&#8217; release window has finally been whittled down to an actual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}