Patch Is Live, DLC Purchases Go Live Later Today
PS Blog Post: Kat & Emmett Join The Battle Royale
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has a pretty significant content update hitting today, with a patch already live on both the Vita & PS3 versions that adds a hefty dose of new material. Included in the update are:
Fearless: The new Heavenly Sword/Wipeout mashup stage. The stage will be $1.99 to download for offline matches, but anyone can play in ranked online fights with this stage once they download the free patch.
Rival Arena: Originally only available as the final arena for the arcade mode in All-Stars, today's patch opens up the Rival Arena for versus and ranked matches. Here's a cap from the Vita version.
Kat (Gravity Rush): Everyone's favorite Vita heroine, complete with her cat Dusty and her gravity-defying moveset from her 2012 game. She can alter gravity and suspend enemies, not to mention zip around the screen as she did in her Vita debut. She'll have alternate costumes, three cutscenes, and everything else an All-Stars character comes with. She's free DLC for the first two weeks and then $4.99 to purchase after that.
Emmett Graves (Starhawk): LightBox Interactive's addition to the All-Stars roster. Emmett brings along his build-and-battle abilities to the game, allowing him to bring down turrets, new weapons, and even a hawk mech suit itself for one of his supers. Like Kat, Emmett will have his own arcade "story," rivalry, and alternate costumes. He's also free for two weeks and then $4.99 after that.
22 New Minion Characters:
*Free unlockables with patch
Both Kat & Emmett are 100% free for those who download them between today and Tuesday, February 26th (afterward you'd have to pay $4.99 to download them, but if you get them for free you have them for life). Fearless is a $1.99 download but can be played for free online, and the minions will be priced in bundles and individually later today when the store updates. There seem to be other small changes too, such as Dante getting a new character-select image, Rival Arena is now playable in versus and ranked matches, etc.
PS Blog Post: Kat & Emmett Join The Battle Royale
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has a pretty significant content update hitting today, with a patch already live on both the Vita & PS3 versions that adds a hefty dose of new material. Included in the update are:
Fearless: The new Heavenly Sword/Wipeout mashup stage. The stage will be $1.99 to download for offline matches, but anyone can play in ranked online fights with this stage once they download the free patch.
Rival Arena: Originally only available as the final arena for the arcade mode in All-Stars, today's patch opens up the Rival Arena for versus and ranked matches. Here's a cap from the Vita version.
Kat (Gravity Rush): Everyone's favorite Vita heroine, complete with her cat Dusty and her gravity-defying moveset from her 2012 game. She can alter gravity and suspend enemies, not to mention zip around the screen as she did in her Vita debut. She'll have alternate costumes, three cutscenes, and everything else an All-Stars character comes with. She's free DLC for the first two weeks and then $4.99 to purchase after that.
Emmett Graves (Starhawk): LightBox Interactive's addition to the All-Stars roster. Emmett brings along his build-and-battle abilities to the game, allowing him to bring down turrets, new weapons, and even a hawk mech suit itself for one of his supers. Like Kat, Emmett will have his own arcade "story," rivalry, and alternate costumes. He's also free for two weeks and then $4.99 after that.
22 New Minion Characters:
- Ashelin – Jak & Daxter
- Buzz – Buzz
- Carmelita – Sly Cooper
- Colossus of Rhodes – God of War
- Curtis the Panda – Carnival Island*
- Dr. Nefarious – Ratchet & Clank*
- Elena – Uncharted
- Eucadian Soldier – Warhawk
- Kuro – Doko Demo Essyo
- Lil – Escape Plan
- Logan Graves – Starhawk
- Lucy Kuo – inFAMOUS
- Mr. Grimm – Twisted Metal
- Ninja – Fat Princess
- Pirate – Fat Princess
- Polyphemus – God of War
- Raven – Gravity Rush
- Rico – Killzone
- Suzuki – Hot Shots Golf
- Sydney Cutter – Starhawk
- The Professor – Ape Escape
- Visari – Killzone
*Free unlockables with patch
Both Kat & Emmett are 100% free for those who download them between today and Tuesday, February 26th (afterward you'd have to pay $4.99 to download them, but if you get them for free you have them for life). Fearless is a $1.99 download but can be played for free online, and the minions will be priced in bundles and individually later today when the store updates. There seem to be other small changes too, such as Dante getting a new character-select image, Rival Arena is now playable in versus and ranked matches, etc.