{"id":396668,"date":"2025-10-31T02:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/knockout-city-gets-free-new-gen-enhancements-next-week\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:41:43","slug":"knockout-city-gets-free-new-gen-enhancements-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/knockout-city-gets-free-new-gen-enhancements-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Knockout City Gets Free New-Gen Enhancements Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/knockout-city-gets-free-new-gen-enhancements-next-week.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Knockout City, EA\u2019s wacky multiplayer dodgeball game, ranks among 2021\u2019s most pleasant surprises. The game is a riot and will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/10\/28\/november-ps-plus-lineup-includes-knockout-city-and-kingdoms-of-amalur-re-reckoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">join November\u2019s batch of PlayStation Plus games<\/a> after already appearing on Xbox Game Pass. If you\u2019ve enjoyed lobbing exploding balls into the faces of friends or strangers on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X\/S, your matches are about to look and feel even better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On November 2, new-gen enhancements will hit the PS5 and Xbox Series X\/S versions of Knockout City\u00a0free of charge. Players who obtained the game through Game Pass or PS Plus are eligible for the upgrade as well. What are you getting? Here\u2019s the full breakdown below:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PlayStation 5:<\/strong> Native 4K at 60FPS or 1440p (upscaled to 4K) at 120FPS<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xbox Series X:<\/strong> Native 4K at 60FPS or 1620p (upscaled to 4K) at 120FPS<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xbox Series S:<\/strong> 1440p at 60FPS or 1080p at 120FPS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Options for Performance and Quality modes will appear in the main menu. Developer Velen Studios\u00a0has also improved Knockout City\u2019s overall lighting and added effects such as ball lights. High-fidelity textures arrive across the board after only being present in the Series X and PC versions of the game, too. You can read more about the enhancements\u00a0at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/knockout-city\/news\/knockout-city-ps5-xbox-series-x-s-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knockout City website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re curious about Knockout City, be sure to check out our review to find out why we scored it an 8.5 out of 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/review\/knockout-city\/knockout-city-review-dodgeball-delight\">right here<\/a>. You can also check out this opinion piece on why there should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/opinion\/2021\/08\/09\/its-about-time-video-games-remembered-that-dodgeball-is-super-rad\">more dodgeball video games in general<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/10\/29\/knockout-city-gets-free-new-gen-enhancements-next-week\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knockout City, EA\u2019s wacky multiplayer dodgeball game, ranks among 2021\u2019s most pleasant surprises. The game is a riot and will join November\u2019s batch of PlayStation Plus games after already appearing on Xbox Game Pass. If you\u2019ve enjoyed lobbing exploding balls into the faces of friends or strangers on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X\/S, your matches are about to look and feel even better.\u00a0 On November 2, new-gen enhancements will hit the PS5 and Xbox Series X\/S versions of Knockout City\u00a0free of charge. Players who obtained the game through Game Pass or PS Plus are eligible for the upgrade as well. What are you getting? Here\u2019s the full breakdown below:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PlayStation 5: Native 4K at 60FPS or 1440p (upscaled to 4K) at 120FPS Xbox Series&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/knockout-city-gets-free-new-gen-enhancements-next-week\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396668","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 v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Knockout City Gets Free New-Gen Enhancements Next Week | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Knockout City, EA\u2019s wacky multiplayer dodgeball game, ranks among 2021\u2019s most pleasant surprises. 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