Holy crossover, Batman!
The crossover throwdown ofMultiVersuswill return to officially launch on the 28th of May, Warner Bros. announced today. The return will come almost a year after theyclosed its open beta, which ran for a striking 11 months. The platform fighting game sees Batman, Bugs Bunny, Arya Stark, Steven Universe, and other characters from across different WB shows and movies coming together for a Smash Bros.-style square go.
So what have developers Player First Games been up to? According to today’s announcement, “MultiVersus will release with a new PVE mode, more heroes and personalities added to the roster, additional stages based on reimagined universes and environments, first-class online play, improved visuals, and much more.”
In its initial open beta state,our Ed thoughtmaybe it wasn’t Smash Bros. but it’s “huge” that it was on PC and free-to-play to boot. “And despite my misgivings, it still has a level of polish that surpasses any free-to-play Smash-likes,” he said. After that, mind, other folks in the RPS treehouse did come to call it one of the bestmultiplayer gamesand the bestfree games.
MultiVersus is due to hitSteamand the Epic Games Store on the 28th of May, as well as the PlayStations 4 and 5 and Xboxes One and Xeries XS. It will boast “full cross-play and cross-progression support,” WB say. And yup, it’ll be free-to-play again.
While Warner Bros. are bringing MultiVersus back, they’re also taking away a great many other games. Several developers who made games with Adult Swim Games (a publisher nested several levels deep inside WB) are finding WB are nowremoving their games from salewithout good explanation nor much warning. One of the affected developers responded byreleasing their game for free, while some are trying—with limited luck—to get control of Steam pages from WB. Many other developers haven’t heard anything and don’t know if their games will be affected.
