The first season of Marvel Rivals may have started, but it's brought an end to mods that let players be third-party characters.

Give the hype surrounding the game, it seemed somewhat likely that Marvel Rivals would beat its launch concurrent playercount. It did, and then some.

Marvel Rivals debuts on a new service that lets players play it on almost any device and not just gaming consoles and powerful PCs.

Marvel Rivals season 1 will start soon after its scheduled server maintenance which begins at 11 pm PST on January 9. With that in mind, here are the release times for Marvel Rivals season 1:

The Marvel Rivals season 1 battle pass, formally referred to as the Darkhold in-game, offers 10 new skins and a variety of other cosmetic goodies for both free-to-play players and those who pick up the paid “luxury” battle pass (or its upgrade). But is the Marvel Rivals season 1 battle pass worth its $10 price tag?

Want to learn how to play Marvel Rivals' Invisible Woman? Sue Storm, key member of the Fantastic Four, has been dropped as Season 1 begins, and players can take up this four-star complexity Strategist hero to utilise a mixture of healing and stealth to support their teammates.

We already knew that Marvel Rivals has proven incredibly popular since its launch last month - 10 million players joined online at launch - but now it's smashed another milestone, topping 600K concurrent players this weekend on Steam.

Susan Storm can do it all

The latest update to Marvel Rivals has killed support for PC mods that change the looks of its heroes, like turning Iron Man into Vegeta or Mantis into a goth. Just after season 1 started on Friday, players started asking in the Marvel Rivals Discord why their mods weren’t working.