New Marvel Rivals Winter Update Adds New Skins and More

Later this week, the popular character shooter Marvel's Rivals will launch its first major holiday-themed event. The new winter update will add new costumes for several characters, as well as a new Splatoon-like mode with only Jeff the Landshark.

Marvel's Rivals launched earlier this month on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. The free-to-play third-person shooter has quickly become one of the biggest games of the year, with hundreds of thousands of players logging in every day on Steam alone. And now, a few weeks after launch, developer NetEase has announced the first major in-game event for Marvel's Rivalsand as you might expect, it's Christmas themed.

On December 16, NetEase released a trailer For “The Winter Celebration”, a new update is coming to all platforms. The update goes live on December 20 and will bring with it new winter costumes for Venom, Magik, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot. All players will also be able to earn free ski-themed skins for Jeff the Land Sharka cute little healer that some players hate due to his small size and powerful ultimate ability.

Here is the trailer showcasing the next winter update Rivals.

And no, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. This trailer features four Jeff the Landsharks fighting four other Jeffs in a mode that seems designed to annoy people who hate this little healer. In the meantime, as someone who loves Jeff and plays with him a lot, I'm very excited about this new mode and Jeff's adorable ski outfit.

Interestingly, this new limited-time vacation mode appears to be essentially a copied version of Nintendo's vacation mode. Splatoon. Four Jeffs compete against four other Jeffs to spray snow across the map and try to cover as much as possible before time runs out. So it looks like NetEase is ready to pull off other games beyond Surveillance for “inspiration”.

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