Dodgeball-Inspired Multiplayer Game Knockout City Launches Today

Today, Electronic Arts and Velan Studios released Knockout City, a team-based multiplayer game that delivers dodgeball-inspired action. This ain’t dodgeball, it’s dodgebrawl. Players can hop into Knockout City for free now through May 30th and participate in the 9-day Block Party, a festival-style series headlined by celebrity and gaming personalities including Academy Award-Winning actress Brie Larson, BrookeAB and Sykkuno who are teaming up to play against fans for dodgebrawl glory.

To celebrate the game’s launch, the Block Party runs May 21st @ 5am PT / 8am ET through May 30th @ 5am PT / 8am ET and includes a series of events including gameplay streams, team match-ups, developer challenges and more.

• May 21: Block Party goes live at 5am PT / 8am ET
• May 22: Community Crew Up gets under way as streamers invite their communities to help them reach in-game goals to unlock prizes for their audience. Watch Brie Larson, BrookeAB and Sykkuno form a team to play 3v3 live on Brie’s YouTube channel
• May 23: Start rocking custom Crew Logos, Crew Banners, and Player Icons from a few different content creators
• May 24: Join the Knockout City Discord to play rounds of Knockout City with the dev team, chat about the game and hang out
• May 25: Season 1 Kickoff: Welcome to Knockout City drops with a new map called Jukebox Junction, a weekly rollout of eight new Playlists, League Play, Season Contracts, Weekly Crew Contracts and more
• May 26: Round 1 of Dodge the Devs, where players can take a whack at knocking out devs in-game for special prizes
• May 27: Round 2 of Dodge the Devs!
• May 28: Community Tournament Day 1, where 64 teams in North America and 64 in Europe will compete for a chance to be crowned victor.
• May 29: Community Tournament Day 2, where the top 8 teams in both regions from Day 1 continue to compete for a $10k North American and $5k European prize pool
• May 30: Block Party ends at 5am PT / 8am ET