Although free-to-play multiplayer brawler Knockout City was shut down last June, developer Velan Studios is still interested in revisiting this new IP one day.
In an official “big week” update where he announced a new multiplayer shooter Midnight Murder Club and title VR Bounce Arcadeincluded a short message for fans of Knockout City, mentioning how they would “love” to return to this particular world when “the time is right”:
“As an independent studio, we love our ability to build on ideas that excite us, and rest assured that we love KO City as much as you do and want to bring it back, *just not yet*. We’ve spent over four years creating Knockout City for the first time and we don’t want to rush the process for the next game in that universe. We love that world and can’t imagine not returning to it at some point, when the time comes.”
When Velan announced last February that he was shutting down the game, he mentioned that he couldn’t “attract and retain” enough players to make it viable, even though over 12 million people have tried it.
This latest update on Knockout City follows reports of layoffs at the same studio earlier this year in March after one of its external partners canceled a “major project,” resulting in a reorganization of the team. The same team previously worked with Nintendo on Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit.
