Rumbleverse Hopes To Power Bomb The Battle Royale Genre
If the battle royale genre was an actual battle royale wrestling match, the ring would be crowded with dozens of contenders vying to come out on top. Heavy-hitters like Fortnite and Warzone might be the odds-on favorites to win it all, but up-and-comers are entering the squared circle every few months, it seems.
The latest of them is Rumbleverse, a free-to-play battle royale launching on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation consoles this Thursday, August 11. With its focus on melee and wrestling moves, Rumbleverse almost looks like the intersection of Fortnite and Super Smash Bros. in gameplay videos, and the team at Iron Galaxy is hoping its cartoonish grapplers can help the game get over with fans of wrestling or battle royale, and certainly anyone who likes both.
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Speaking with Chelsea Blasko, co-CEO of Iron Galaxy, GameSpot learned how Rumbleverse came to be, what the team thinks of its new place in a highly competitive genre, and learned a handful of the game's wrestling-themed puns you'll find around Grapital City.
«I think at Iron Galaxy, it's not like we don't do competitive research or, you know, pay attention to what's going around us,» Blasko told GameSpot. «But we really always think about competing with ourselves. I try not to get too in my head about what's going on with the rest of the genre.»
Blasko said that Rumbleverse has been in development for four years. Its original pitch came out of an Orlando bar during a studio event. «A few of us were
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