BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma, released in Japan as BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, is a 2-D fighting game developed by Arc System Works. It is the third game of the Blazblue series, set after the events of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift. The game was originally to be released first as an arcade game in the early fourth quarter of 2012,[3] which was later pushed forward to November, 2012.[4] A PlayStation 3 version of the game was released in Japan on October 24, 2013,[5] while it was released in the North America on March 25, 2014. Due to limited hardware and disc space the game was not released on the Xbox 360.[6]
An updated version of the game titled BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend, dubbed as BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma 2.0 in the Arcade version, was originally released for Arcades in October 2014, and for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in April 2015.[7] It was released on June 30, 2015, in North America,[8] with the European region version releasing on October 23, 2015.[9]