Mario Kart Live Dev Interested in Returning to Knockout City Universe “When the Time Is Right”
Although the multiplayer fighting game is free Knockout City closed last JuneDeveloper Velan Studios remains interested in revisiting this new IP someday.
in one Official update on its “big week”. where a new multiplayer shooter was announced Midnight Murder Club and VR titles Return gameincludes a brief message to Knockout City fans, mentioning that they “would love” to return to this special world when the “time is right”:
“As an independent studio, we love the ability to lean into 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 right now*. We spent over four years creating the first Knockout City, and we don’t want to rush the process of creating the next game in that universe. We love that world and can’t imagine not returning to it at some point, when the time is right.”
When Velan announced last February that they were shutting down the game, they mentioned it was unable to “attract and retain” enough players to make it sustainable, even though more than 12 million people have tried it.
Latest updates on Knockout City follows reports of layoffs at the same studio earlier this year in March after a “major project” was canceled by one of the external partners, leading to a reorganization of the team. The same team previously worked with Nintendo on Mario Kart Live: Race at Home.
