20 September 2026
The front door and the game part ways
kingstrikers.com became this site; the game moved to play.kingstrikers.com. Everybody signed in at the
old address was signed out once — a session belongs to a web address and nothing can carry it across.
Accounts, players and records were untouched.
19 September 2026
The league gets shorter and faster
A division is now a smaller group playing home and away, with a round every couple of days. The old
calendar ran on fixed weekdays and took over a month. A season now runs in weeks, and it is the same
length wherever you play.
19 September 2026
Injuries are gone. So is composure
Injuries punished you for playing, which is the one thing the game asks you to do, so they were taken
out whole. Composure went a couple of hours later: the injury roll had been the only thing left reading
it, and a number nothing reads is not a mechanic.
Every stored match was replayed against the new engine after each removal, and not one of them came out
differently — which is how we know neither deletion quietly changed the football.
19 September 2026
The energy bar comes down a notch
A tighter daily budget, so choosing between a drill and a shift at work is an actual choice rather than
a formality.
19 September 2026
Home becomes a hub, and the world gets its own screen
The home screen is now the place you start from rather than a dashboard of everything at once, and the
league, the map and the rest of the world moved into Explore.
19 September 2026
The crown, everywhere
The logo went onto every page, the crown became the tab icon and the home-screen icon, and the app took
the navy game skin. The old baked-colour avatar library was deleted along the way — a great pile of
parts that nothing new was going to use.
18 September 2026
The game is called King Strikers
It had been RiseXI, and the XI means eleven a side. This game is seven. The name changed, the code
followed the next day, and the old web address still forwards here.
17 September 2026
Training becomes drills
A drill moves several of your stats at once, instead of pushing one at a time. Same energy, same total
gain, and a real decision about the kind of footballer you are building.
17 September 2026
A club keeps one plan
Instead of a team sheet per fixture, a club now saves one shape, one mentality and one side, used for
every match until somebody changes it. Setting up once should not be a weekly chore.