{"id":137467,"date":"2026-06-04T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-202027"},"modified":"2026-06-04T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:30:00","slug":"avatar-legends-the-fighting-game-has-been-slightly-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/04\/avatar-legends-the-fighting-game-has-been-slightly-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Has Been Slightly Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4f6646d24919b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4f6646d24919b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"4f6646d24919b\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4f6646d24919b\/avatar-legends-the-fighting-game.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4f6646d24919b\/avatar-legends-the-fighting-game.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"563\" alt=\"Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Gameplay Group<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/avatar-legends-the-fighting-game\">Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game<\/a> was on track for an early release in July, but fans of the series (and the fighting game genre) will now have to wait a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>In an update via the game&#8217;s official social media account, the developer behind the title has announced it&#8217;s shifting the release date from 2nd July 2026 to <strong>23rd July 2026<\/strong>. According to the statement, this will give the team some extra time to &#8220;cook up an exceptional Avatar adventure&#8221; and even add some &#8220;previously unplanned&#8221; content.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;To our Avatar community: To ensure AVATAR LEGENDS\u2122: The Fighting Game delivers the best possible experience at launch, we wanted to let you know that we\u2019re taking a little extra time to cook up an exceptional Avatar adventure, including brand new content previously unplanned!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;We can&#8217;t wait for you to master the elements and see how the Four Nations have come to life. Thank you for your patience and continued support!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This update follows on from the recent reveal of the character Azula, who can you see in action in the video below:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"4okUKkrX0Lo\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4okUKkrX0Lo?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\">\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As previously noted, Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game will include a single-player story mode, hand drawn 2D animation, a 12-fighter roster, offline and online versus, rollback netcode and crossplay support.<\/p>\n<p>Will you be checking out this game when it arrives on the Switch 2? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Gameplay Group Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game was on track for an early release in July, but fans of the series (and the fighting game genre) will now have to wait a little longer. In an update via the game&#8217;s official social media account, the developer behind the title has announced it&#8217;s shifting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}