Knockout City was today announced by
Mario Kart Live Home Circuit’s Velan Studios, a multiplayer dodgeball title that will be published by EA as part of its EA Originals label.
Velan co-founder Karthik Bala told Stevivor that the dodgeball game or, rather “dodgebrawl” according to the developer started off as a prototype around four years ago, built around a “deceptively simple mechanic that showed the promise of depth, skill [and is] something we’ve never tired of playing.”
Play is based around the principles of dodgeball throwing and catching the ball and is further videogameified with power-ups, hang gliders and special balls that change the state of play. Rather than playing in a gynmasium of the like,
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Recently I got some hands on time with Knockout City, a newly announced EA title developed by Velan Studios. It s a cartoony yet competitive dodgeball multiplayer game - sort of like if Fortnite s Tilted Towers was expanded into a bustling metropolis, and its legions of teenage flossers took to the streets to be a bit naughty before dinner time.
It s pretty easy to understand, because it s a big game of souped up dodgeball - but with some twists. And as much as I enjoyed flinging and catching balls, there was one aspect of Knockout City I was drawn to more than any other:
The EA Play service remains as one of the few options in which gamers can try out a number of games at a small price. The subscription has recently made a few additions to the vault, making it a bit better than it was back in 2020. Here is the updated list for the EA Play titles:
Steam
A Way Out, Battlefield (1, 3, 4, Bad Company 2, Hardline, and V), Burnout Paradise Remastered, Crysis (1, 2, and 3), Dead Space (1, 2, and 3), Dragon Age (Origins, II, and Inquisition, Fe, Jade Empire, Mass Effect (1, 2, 3, and Andromeda) Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Mirror’s Edge and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Need for Speed, Need for Speed Heat, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Need for Speed Payback, and Need for Speed Rivals, Peggle, Peggle Nights, Plants vs. Zombies and Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, Rocket Arena, Sea of Solitude, SimCity 4, Spore, The Sims 3, The Sims 4, Star Wars Battlefront and Battlefront II, Titanfall 2, Unravel (1 and 2
Spilt Milk Devlog 08 - 2020 retrospective by Andrew Smith on 01/22/21 11:04:00 am The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutras community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.
.Coming out of 2020 we ve basically become better, stronger and have a more exciting future than we could have hoped. Allow me to indulge as we take a look back at the year, and lay down some teases for the year ahead.
PATREON LAUNCH
In April we took the plunge and launched our Patreon, and we couldn t be happier with the support so far! It was a big decision for us - there s a certain amount of emotional exposure that comes from a thing like this, so it meant a lot that we instantly got a really great chunk of supporters who ve stuck with us throughout 2020. Hopefully, the content we post
Watch out, boy, she ll chew you up. Updated on 5 January 2021
Sony has revealed the next set of freebies coming to PlayStation Plus subscribers in January 2021: Maneater, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and GreedFall.
While the latter two are optimised for PS4, the former is the PS5 version, so the PlayStation Plus benefit [is] not applicable for Maneater on PS4 , apparently. PlayStation Plus starts 2021 with a bang. PlayStation Plus members will receive two PS4 titles - action-adventure Shadow of the Tomb Raider and action RPG Greedfall - on Tuesday January 5, wrote SIE s Adam Michel on the official PS Blog. On the same day, PS5 owners with a PlayStation Plus membership can play a terrifying apex predator in the open world (sea?) RPG Maneater.