Discover your Killer Instinct! The legendary fighting franchise is back with stunning 60FPS visuals, over-the-top action, a wild cast of combatants, rocking reactive music, and C-C-C-COMBO BREAKERS!!!

Choose your ultimate combatants each with fluid animations, unique combat tactics, and enthralling special attacks.

Use the open-ended combo system to rack up huge combos as your opponent looks for openings to break you and turn the tides of battle. Go online and compete against players from all over the world, or master your combat skills with in-depth tutorials and intelligent AI combatants.

Dear Combo Breakers, 

This winter will be Killer Instinct’s 10th year on Xbox Live. Throughout that time, Xbox platforms and services have been constantly evolving. We have been able to keep KI operating and adapting to many of these changes behind the scenes. Over the last five years, however, it has become more challenging to deal with issues that crop up due to KI’s reliance on legacy services. We have been working on solutions to address these concerns. Thank you for being patient and amazing fans through any bumps in the road. 

We have started migrating KI’s legacy services to PlayFab services, a process which will happen over the next several months. This is a quality-of-life (QOL) update and does not have any new content or tuning changes: it ensures the game you know and love continues to provide the best possible player experience.

Today, we’ve kicked off the first migration build for Xbox consoles, Windows PC, and Steam. Here is what to expect when you launch your updated KI for the first time: 

• Your game version will update to 3.9.30917.1.290283. 
• You can expect a longer than normal load time (normally 40-60 seconds, but potentially minutes depending on your connection speed).  
• You may see a warning ‘Refreshing DLC Timeout.’ We encourage you to select ‘Wait’ as this will continue the sync.  

Once complete, you should notice no change. All content you’ve purchased or unlocked will be available, and all progression will be the same. That’s it!  

There is one important change on Xbox consoles only: Purchasing KI Gold is temporarily disabled in the Xbox Store. This does not affect your ability to redeem KI Gold. Until a larger backend change is completed, KI Gold can be purchased at https://www.xbox.com/ in the Killer Instinct Store Page, under Add-Ons. 

Additional Fixes:  

• Fixed an issue where both players would lose points after leaving Ranked mode on Steam.  
• Fixed an issue where characters would appear locked for some PC Game Pass or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate users playing Definitive Edition on PC. All characters should now be unlocked.

For additional troubleshooting needs, please visit our dedicated thread in the forums here.

Key Features:

• Includes all 26 characters from Seasons 1-3, including Shadow Jago, Rash from Battletoads, Arbiter from Halo and General RAAM from Gears of War
• 20 stages with intense stage destruction
• Killer Instinct Classic 1 & 2 for Xbox One
• Explore the lore, characters and history of Killer Instinct with all-new behind-the-scenes videos, trailers and art
• All the music of Killer Instinct, including Killer Cuts
• Competitive online multiplayer matches with state-of-the-art fighting game netcode
• Test your skill online in Monthly Ranked Leagues
• Cinematic story modes
• Extensive Dojo tutorial teaches all the core mechanics for Killer Instinct
• Train an AI combatant and challenges your friends to asynchronous matches in Shadow Lab
• Xbox Live Features:
  • Play Anywhere with online multiplayer Cross Play with Windows 10 and Cloud Save between Xbox One and Windows 10
  • Killer Instinct includes rich Xbox Live features like Achievements, Game DVR, Leaderboards and more