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Killer Instinct Season 3 gets a specific release date

Rash included.

Killer Instinct Season 3 arrives 29th March on both Xbox One and Windows 10, Microsoft has announced.

In it are eight fighters although only four available at launch. They are Rash from Battletoads, Arbiter from Halo, Tusk and Kim Wu. There are embedded videos of the fighters' Ultra combos over on the Killer Instinct website (it's running slowly at the moment).

Price and pre-purchase options for Season 3 are to be confirmed.

On Windows 10, Killer Instinct will - via Xbox Live - remember all your Xbox One progress and follow on from there. And you'll be able to play the game across both platforms on Xbox Live.

Xbox 360 fightsticks will work on Windows 10 at Season 3 launch, with Xbox One fighstick support coming in a future OS update.

System requirements follow.

Minimum

  • CPU: Intel Core i5-750 @ 2.67 Ghz / AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.4 Ghz
  • Memory: 4GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 480 / AMD Radeon HD 5850

Recommended

  • CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.4Ghz / AMD FX-4300 @ 3.8Ghz
  • Memory: 8GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 670 / AMD Radeon HD 7950