MultiVersus Season 1 release date announced for PC, PlayStation and Xbox

MultiVersus‘ Season 1 begins August 15 and Morty (from Rick and Morty) joins the Warner Bros. list. Ensemble Smash-style fighting game on August 23rd aloud the game’s official Twitter account.

It ends with a delay of about a week; Player First Games originally planned to launch season one on August 9, but backtracked last week, saying the game needed more spice and polish. MultiVersusStarring Warner Bros. characters like Batman, Bugs Bunny and Scooby-Doo’s sidekick Shaggy, the game has been in open beta on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X since July 26th.

The free-to-play game currently has a roster of 17 characters that can be unlocked with in-game currency earned while playing or with premium currency sold in the free-to-play game’s marketplace . A datamine leak in March said characters like Harry Potter, Fred Flintstone and even Gizmo from the 1984s gremlins would eventually come into play. These characters are unconfirmed.

Morty was supposed to join the game with the Season 1 tip and Rick sometime after that. Season 1 will also add a “classic arcade mode” that appears to be a PvE round-robin against AI enemies, and sometime after August 15th, a multiplayer leaderboard MultiVersus Twitter account advise players that “everything we bring to you in Season 1 isn’t going to be released on the same day,” and as such, stay tuned for further release date announcements.