{"id":304163,"date":"2025-10-15T06:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/marvels-avengers-war-for-wakanda-begins-in-august\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:38:56","slug":"marvels-avengers-war-for-wakanda-begins-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/marvels-avengers-war-for-wakanda-begins-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel&#8217;s Avengers\u2019 War For Wakanda Begins In August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/marvels-avengers-war-for-wakanda-begins-in-august.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/03\/18\/marvels-avengers-announces-black-panther-expansion-for-later-this-year\">War for Wakanda<\/a> is easily the most exciting expansion to hit Marvel\u2019s Avengers, and we finally know when it\u2019s coming. On August 17, players will get to take control of Black Panther to explore a brand new story serving as the game\u2019s largest content update yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to adding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/07\/15\/god-of-wars-kratos-voices-black-panther-in-marvels-avengers-new-dlc\">Christopher Judge-voiced<\/a> T\u2019Challa to the roster of heroes, the free expansion (yes expansion and not an Operation like with Kate Bishop and Hawkeye) introduces new enemy types and two supervillains, one of which is Klaw. Black Panther\u2019s long-time nemesis has teamed up with AIM to invade Wakanda to steal its precious vibranium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wakanda, with its futuristic Royal Palace and surrounding jungles, offer a vibrant new biome to explore that contains the Birnin Zana Outpost, the laboratory of T\u2019Challa\u2019s brilliant sister, Shuri, and other locations. There&#8217;s also a\u00a0new drop zone for solo or team play. In addition to the story quests, players can engage in new threat sector missions and other superheroic activities. Of course, you can also expect plenty of new hero outfits as well as a power level increase.\u00a0<\/p>\n<article class=\"embedded-entity\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/marvels-avengers-war-for-wakanda-begins-in-august-1.jpg\" alt=\"Marvel's Avengers\" title=\"Marvel's Avengers\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/article>\n<p>For a deep dive into what War for Wakanda entails, Crystal Dynamics will stream an Avengers War Table on its Twitch channel on August 16 at 10 a.m PT. The presentation will share additional details and show off new footage of the expansion in action.<\/p>\n<p>If you love you some Black Panther but are on the fence about Marvel\u2019s Avengers as a whole, you can play the entire game for free thanks to an all-access period running now until August 1 for the PlayStation, PC, and Stadia versions of the game. During this time Marvel\u2019s Avengers is available at a 40% discount should you decide to buy, and your progress will carry over as well. There&#8217;s also a 400% XP gain in effect and 50% off sale for the in-game store. The Tachyon Anomaly event also makes a return. For Xbox players, Crystal Dynamics promises a similar all-access period will come to those platforms in the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marvel&#8217;s Avengers is currently available for PS5, Xbox Series X\/S, PS4, Xbox One, Stadia, and PC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/07\/30\/marvels-avengers-war-for-wakanda-begins-in-august\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War for Wakanda is easily the most exciting expansion to hit Marvel\u2019s Avengers, and we finally know when it\u2019s coming. On August 17, players will get to take control of Black Panther to explore a brand new story serving as the game\u2019s largest content update yet.\u00a0 In addition to adding a Christopher Judge-voiced T\u2019Challa to the roster of heroes, the free expansion (yes expansion and not an Operation like with Kate Bishop and Hawkeye) introduces new enemy types and two supervillains, one of which is Klaw. Black Panther\u2019s long-time nemesis has teamed up with AIM to invade Wakanda to steal its precious vibranium.\u00a0 Wakanda, with its futuristic Royal Palace and surrounding jungles, offer a vibrant new biome to explore that contains the Birnin Zana Outpost,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/marvels-avengers-war-for-wakanda-begins-in-august\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marvel&#039;s Avengers\u2019 War For Wakanda Begins In August | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"War for Wakanda is easily the most exciting expansion to hit Marvel\u2019s Avengers, and we finally know when it\u2019s coming. 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