{"id":123802,"date":"2022-02-25T09:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T07:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123802"},"modified":"2022-02-25T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T07:14:53","slug":"ea-dropped-by-velen-studios-knockout-city-going-f2p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/123802-ea-dropped-by-velen-studios-knockout-city-going-f2p","title":{"rendered":"EA dropped by Velen Studios \u2013 Knockout City going F2P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Velen Studios has announced that they are dropping Electronic Arts (EA) as the publisher for Knockout City this spring and shifting the game to Free-to-Play.<\/p>\n<p>The developer will handle publishing the team-based multiplayer game in-house and explained how this will impact players in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/knockout-city\/news\/knockout-city-season-5-year-2-free-to-play-details\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the work required to shift to the new business format, there won\u2019t be a new Brawl Pass, new maps or balls for Season 5, and there will also be fewer bundles and cosmetics.<\/p>\n<p>The developer assured fans that this reduced content is only temporary, as they have promised new maps, balls, cosmetics, and features with future seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Season 5 of Knockout City will begin on 1 March; you can watch the season&#8217;s announcement trailer below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/psq9kGWPYO8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Knockout City is available on PC (Steam, Epic Games, Origin), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X\/S, and Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/123791-why-i-hate-hunt-showdown\">Why I hate Hunt: Showdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Velen Studios has announced that they are dropping Electronic Arts (EA) as the publisher for Knockout City this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":123804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[175,813,20582,25760,25761],"class_list":["post-123802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-electronic-arts-ea","tag-knockout-city","tag-velen-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}