{"id":570407,"date":"2026-03-30T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570407\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:06:10","slug":"even-the-avatar-fighting-game-is-disrespecting-legend-of-korra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570407\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might recall that we\u2019re supposed to get a fighting game for the Avatar franchise<\/a>\u00a0sometime this year. Over the past few months, developer Gameplay Group International has held playtests and gradually revealed Avatar Legends\u2019 12-person roster. For Airbender\u00a0fans, the roster is more or less who you\u2019d expect, and if you like Legend of Korra<\/a>\u2026well, it\u2019s basically an honor to get anyone from that show this early into the fray.<\/p>\n

While Korra and an Avatar State variant made the cut, the only other person from her show included at launch is season three baddie Zaheer. In isolation, he\u2019s a good choice; certainly up there in the show\u2019s villain lineup, has arguably its coldest moment<\/a>, and adds some Airbender representation beyond Aang. That all tracks, and it\u2019s too bad we currently can\u2019t see how Zaheer plays to show how evil the fighting community will be with him.<\/p>\n

Even so, it\u2019s a strange move to be so Airbender\u00a0skewed\u00a0and leave\u00a0Korra with crumbs. Maybe not everyone in her version of Team Avatar is fighting game material\u2014sorry, Mako, but see one Fire guy, seen \u2019em all\u2014but surely some like Asami and Lin Beifong deserve a spotlight. This\u2019ll likely be addressed with DLC, but that all depends on if the game gets enough of an audience for the studio to make DLC. It\u2019s not the only fighting game based on a licensed IP<\/a> to come out this year, and a brand name doesn\u2019t guarantee a future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking of a future, we\u2019ve also got a release date for Avatar Legends: July 2 for PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 1 and 2, and Xbox Series X|S. And if fighting games aren\u2019t your thing, the animated Aang solo movie<\/a> hits Paramount+ in October.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might recall that we\u2019re supposed to get a fighting game for the Avatar franchise\u00a0sometime this year. Over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5959,117128,49,48,61,219397],"class_list":{"0":"post-570407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-avatar","9":"tag-avatar-the-last-airbender","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-the-legend-of-korra"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}