It’s a Residing…

Writer Warner Bros and developer Participant First Video games have introduced the rescheduled season one launch date for MultiVersus — And followers will likely be super-stoked to listen to that they gained’t have for much longer to attend, as platform brawler’s first wave of latest content material will start its drip-feed as quickly as August 15.

From Monday, gamers can dive into the free-to-play fighter’s first battle cross, which is able to supply up skins, power-ups, and different goodies as you bash your method by MultiVersus’ roster of popular culture superstars. The battle cross will embrace bonus gadgets for all, although gamers who’ve stumped up the greenback for the Premium model will, in fact, earn much more gadgets and unique in-game rewards.

Participant First Video games has been fast to remind the participant base that each one of season one’s anticipated characters, modes, and updates is not going to all be dropping on August 15 — this date is simply when the season premieres. Morty, of Rick and Morty fame, will likely be MultiVersus’ first post-launch character and is predicted to reach on August 23, with extra content material to be rolled out over the approaching weeks/months.

MultiVersus, which was at all times going to be one thing of a dice-roll launch, launched in open beta on July 26 and located quick success, pulling in 144,000 gamers on Steam alone inside its opening 24 hours. Since then, these numbers have continued to develop, with Participant First proudly saying that someplace within the area of a staggering 10.6 million gamers in a bit of over two weeks. Unbelievable.

After all, the honeymoon interval is actual. Simply ask Fall Guys, which noticed its equally spectacular numbers fall off fairly sharply as soon as the sport hit its second season, (although it has since discovered a resurgence). This isn’t to say that the identical destiny will befall MultiVersus, merely that it stays to be seen whether or not Warner Bros can hold the hype ball rolling for the rest of this yr and into 2023. MultiVersus is, for certain, an thrilling and pleasurable brawler, and its latest Evo 2022 look solely served to carry extra followers into the fold. It’s going to be an fascinating season.

MultiVersus is out there to obtain now on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox platforms.