Marvel Rivals Season 2 Welcomes You to the Hellfire Gala

Season 1 brought a whole family of fantastic heroes to a vampire fight, but the rapidly-incoming sophomore season for Netease’s hero shooter Marvel Rivals is getting its glam on for a trip to Krakoa. This morning Netease revealed the first look at Season 2 for Marvel Rivals, confirming that Emma Frost and Ultron will be the latest additions to its playable roster. And, given the theming, presumably some of this season’s map additions will whisk players to the idyllic lands of the mutant sovereign nation on the living island Krakoa. Introduced in 1975’s Giant Size X-Men #1 relaunch by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum, Krakoa was originally something of an antagonistic threat to the X-Men, after Charles Xavier was pushed to put together a new international taskforce of mutant heroes to be the latest incarnation of the X-Men, in order to save his original five students after they were captured and trapped by the living island. But it rose to even greater prominence in Jona ... Read full article.