Knockout City, the team-based multiplayer video game from developer Velan Studios and EA with a unique take on dodgeball, has been popular since first releasing several weeks back. How popular? Well, it was announced that Knockout City has already hit 5 million players. Granted, it initially launched as a free-to-play video game for a limited time before turning to be free until level 25, but even so, that is an impressive number of players in so short of time.
“Since launch, we’ve seen 5 million new brawlers join us in matches,” the Knockout City team stated in part, “there’s been amazing— and unexpected— gameplay, hundreds of thousands of Crews were formed, over half a billion KOs landed, millions of hours of gameplay were watched, and—dare we say it?—thousands of friendships were made along the way. Who knew you could bond over hitting one another in the face with a…
