Information about the season 2 Battle Pass character, plus new events and location have dropped (along with a hefty update):

K-A0S arrives in the Arena. Her enhanced armaments take the brutality of the Empire's KX-series security droid to a whole new level. K-A0S can use the Bulwark ability, connecting her shields to protect herself and allies while also providing ranged support with her blaster. Don't let K-A0S get too close otherwise she will close the gap with her Lunged Uppercut before Backhanding enemies away. Her Ultimate ability, Aftershock, damages and knocks upwards all enemies around her, making them easy targets for allies to eliminate. As a formidable Tank, K-A0S can push her team forward to victory.

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Our new Hunter K-A0S is preparing to exact revenge on Grozz in THE POWER PARADOX event, this season’s Pinnacle Clash! You will be randomly assigned to K-A0S’ or Grozz’s team, and will need to complete challenges to earn unique rewards, including an epic K-A0S cos

Picture the scenario: You’re playing Star Wars: Hunters on mobile with a controller. Isn’t that better than those fiddly touchscreen controls where your thumbs take up most of the screen?

Fortunately, you can live out this wild fantasy thanks to Star Wars: Hunters controller support.

Zynga has confirmed that Star Wars: Hunters features controller support, but it is limited to a set of official console controllers - and you can’t do everything using a controller.

Don’t worry, you can use a controller to actually play the game, it just doesn’t work on all menus

Announced three years ago at a Nintendo Direct livestream, Star Wars: Hunters is one of those games that you can’t imagine suffered a long and difficult pitch process. Someone just had to say “It’s Overwatch but in Star Wars” and the development budget was in their account that afternoon. It is a no-brainer, and of all the entertainment projects the Star Wars brand has been slathered on to over the past three years, it’s certainly among the most understandable and well crafted.

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The fact that I’ve genuinely wanted to grind this game for upgrades is a good indication that it’s a fun way to spend a few hours. When you’re on a skilled team that actually functions as a unit, the fights are tense and exciting – there’s great, well-balanced interplay between the hero abilities, allowing you to really boss areas of the map, which is helpful when you move on from Deathmatch-style basic option to familiar online shooter modes such as Control, where you fight to overtake and keep th

It's been freely available for nearly a week now - what are your thoughts?

Overwatch was murdered by Blizzard and nothing replaced it. Overwatch 2? Never heard of it. Other hero shooters tried to keep the lights on, like Paladins, and one of them is even came back from the dead, albeit only for three days [Correction: It's actually back for real now]. But there's no way around it: the hero shooter is largely a thing of the past. Sure, Valorant is still doing its thing, but it lacks the playfulness and fun that made the early hero shooters such a joy to play. It's Overwatch for Counter-Strike nuts, and I can think of few things less appealing.

So when Star Wars: Hunters launched on Switch and mobile, I felt compelled to check it out. I'm exhausted by Star Wars, but still ultimately love it. So Star Wars x Overwatch? Yeah, of course I was going to download it. Not one part of me was surprised, however, to discover that it's basic junk food, wrapped up in a grotty free-to-play mobile business model.

It's constantly trying to sell me shite, and remind

Ahnald gives it 6/10.

Star Wars: Hunters has just released, and as Zynga's big pitch into the arena of Star Wars games made for mobile and Nintendo Switch, it's already making waves. One way they've been promoting the game is with a massive set of murals in London & Los Angeles.

It's no surprise they're eager to show off either. Star Wars: Hunters, which is a 4v4 class-based shooter, pits you in battles against other players with characters inspired by the wide Star Wars universe. These latest murals show off the characters in huge resolution on the side of buildings in two of the world's biggest cities.

You can check out the murals for both London and Los Angeles on Zynga's official social media channels, and play Star Wars: Hunters now on iOS and Android!

Games giant Zynga, known for its extended catalogue of mobile games, are no stranger to working with big IP names, from the wizarding world of Harry Potter to Game of Thrones' Westeros.

So, in 2018, news broke that Zynga had entered a partnership with Disney to create a mobile Star Wars game, it seemed that a hit was cards. And when Zynga charged its subsidiary NaturalMotion, which it acquired back in 2014 for $527 million, with developing the game, it felt like success was in the bag.

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Zynga’s executive vice president Yaron Leyvand picks up the story.

“Star Wars: Hunters was and is a labour of love by an international team across our studios in Brighton, London, and Austin. During development, the team evolved as they continued to add and expand content in the game," he says.

At one point the company had as many as 300 staff working on the game, PocketGamer.biz understands.

It was ready to break cover at Nintendo Direct in 2021, where the first official t

Optimistic article from November 2021:

In the final issue of Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters, the bounty hunter Imara Vex makes her debut in the comics before the upcoming release of the Star Wars: Hunters video game. While the massive crossover event saw the entire galaxy going to war over the still-carbonized Han Solo after Empire Strikes Back, it's been revealed that the resurgent Crimson Dawn was using the conflict to further their own goals, led by the Lady Qi'ra. Furthermore, Qi'ra has assembled a collection of impressive warriors and agents to join her organization for the upcoming Crimson Reign event, and Imara Vex is among their ranks, serving as her first official appearance in the Star Wars canon.

While not much is known about Imara Vex, the website for the upcoming Star Wars: Hunters game has confirmed that she's a highly-skilled bounty hunter who never loses. Furthermore, she's also seen in the game's trailer claiming that she has the highest score in the arena

There are 12 different characters to choose from in Star Wars: Hunters at launch.

They are all originally designed but some are reminiscent of fan favourites already featured in the franchise, such as Zaina, who is a Rebel war hero not unlike Han Solo.

Players will also have three character classes to choose from, including Tank, Support and Damage, which all have different perks and abilities.

A Mandalorian called Aran Tal is also coming to the game eventually, once an Arena Pass has been released, but at launch he is unavailable. We’ll update you once more information has been published.

Our Gaming Editor, Rob Leane, went along to a Star Wars: Hunters event recently, and here are his thoughts on the best characters in the game.

From my time playing all the different modes across multiple matches at the preview event, regularly switching between characters while the other players also mixed it up, I would argue that Sentinel is the most consistently reliable char

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In Star Wars: Hunters, you can play as two Jawas in a trench coat, a precariously balanced sibling duo that slings scrap metal. It’s the kind of wacky, creative premise that should tell you all you need to know about the newest Star Wars video game — this time from gaming behemoth Take-Two (the parent company behind everything from Grand Theft Auto to NBA 2K). The new game, available now on Nintendo Switch and mobile (with cross-platform saves), combines the hero-shooter genre with the familiar locales of everyone’s favorite galaxy far, far away.

“We have to make that something that is approachable to people, so that it’s not too unusual where they can’t pick up and play those things,” design director Scott Warner tells Inverse. Warner cites games like Overwatch and Apex Legends as influences on Star Wars: Hunter.

Traipsing through the world of Hunters, I was struck by how similar it felt to taking a tour of Galax

The tie-in novel landed over a year ago:

With all the hype for Jedi: Battle Scars, it was easy to miss another video game tie-in novel that was released on the same day — Star Wars Hunters: Battle for the Arena. And while the game it’s based on has yet to come out, the middle-grade novel penned by Mark Oshiro has just as much action and thrills as it does world-building.

Hunters: Battle for the Arena is set some years after the Battle of Endor and the end of the Empire, following an orphaned Force-sensitive young woman named Rieve. Originally from Corellia, Rieve has bounced around because of some trauma in her past and ends up on Vespaara, where she trains to become a Hunter.

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Some of the best parts of this middle-grade novel come when Rieve finally realizes it’s possible and important to open yourself up and let others have your back. Your family — found or otherwise — is there for you on your best days and your worst. Though not a Jedi, Rieve also learns the crucia

Yes, Star Wars: Hunters is canon to the overall Star Wars universe!

The main arena of the game exists on an Outer Rim planet and the action is beamed over the HoloNet like a TV show to entertainment fans around the galaxy. Turns out what the people want in this universe is deathmatches, who knew?

The whole operation is run by one of the Hutts (not that one). Each battle arena is an elaborate set that has been put together to look like famous things from Star Wars, such as the Death Star and the Battle of Endor.

It’s all fake, though, and the biggest Star Wars fans will notice the purposefully unconvincing nature of the arenas.

Inspiration for the whole thing was taken from pro wrestling, with the development team explaining that the characters – all larger-than-life archetypal heroes and villains when the cameras are rolling – are normal citizens of the galaxy the rest of the time.

Rieve, for example, plays the role of a Sith when they’re in the arena, but in real

Three years in the making, Star Wars: Hunters has seen multiple delays that set it back from a 2021 release date to 2022 and finally 2024. Star Wars fans have had some hands-on experience with the title in the interim - playing in soft launch in select regions so that Zynga subsidiary NaturalMotion could collect data and improve the game.

But today, June 4th, 2024, marks the first time everyone on the planet is able to play, whether on Android, iOS, or Nintendo Switch and it’s a landmark moment for Zynga and for Star Wars.

Hunters was Zynga’s first game in development for Nintendo Switch, broadening the company’s horizons; meanwhile, for Star Wars, Hunters was the brand's second game revealed after EA’s exclusivity deal came to an end.

Hunters is also canon to the wider Star Wars universe and further broadens the series’ transmedia reach, with NaturalMotion having worked with Lucasfilm to ensure the game stays true to the films and other media. The game iteself is set af