nWay's ChronoBlade is a fast-action fighting game on mobile.
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nWay’s ChronoBlade is a massive effort to create a hardcore fighting mobile game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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When it comes to ambition, you can’t get much bigger than ChronoBlade. The inaugural free-to-play mobile title from San Francisco developer nWay is expected to debut early next year, and it will be the latest test of whether hardcore games will begin to take a big chunk of the revenues in the $30 billion mobile game market.

ChronoBlade is a fast-action fighting game that will have high-end 3D graphics and a speed of 60 frames-per-second — the equivalent of console games. But it’s going to run on mobile devices with touchscreens or controllers. And it’s coming to the U.S. mobile gaming market early next year.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.