KRAFTON India today rolled out the BGMI 5th Anniversary Edition 4.5 Update, one of the biggest crossover seasons in the game’s history. After individually unveiling collaborations with Naruto, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and Ferrari over recent weeks, the update now brings them all together, live in the game at once - alongside new user generated games in WOW Mode, India-themed Card Collections, and a major creator collaboration items and events still to be revealed. Every BGMI update introduces something new for players. 4.5 brings together entire worlds.

The celebration kicks off for free. Every player who logs in during the season will receive Naruto-themed rewards, including dedicated gift tracks for both new players and returning veterans, Flash Crew rapport rewards, and Naruto lobby music to set the tone from the very first screen.

Three Global Icons, Faithfully Recreated

What sets the 4.5 season apart is not the scale of its collaborations, but their fidelity. Each of the three global IPs has been rebuilt inside BGMI with a level of authenticity designed to satisfy the fans who know these worlds best.

  • Naruto: Ninjas Assemble - the headline theme mode reimagines Erangel and Livik as the Hidden Leaf Village, recreated faithfully down to Hokage Rock, Ichiraku Ramen and the Ninja Academy. It introduces an all-new ninjutsu combat system with abilities including Rasengan, Chidori and Flying Raijin Jutsu, the Ninja Run movement mechanic, Voice-Activated Ninjutsu, multi-phase Kurama (Nine-Tails) boss battles, and Naruto skins via the Naruto Gold Spin, including Sage Mode and Six Paths Mode sets and

  • Kurama Defense: A massive, server-wide cooperative event that disables PvP combat, tasking the entire community with defending the Hidden Leaf Village against a multi-phase Nine-Tails assault.

  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day - brings superhero traversal to Erangel through Web Swing, Web Attack, Spider Climb and Spider-Sense, alongside the new Skyline Plaza vertical-combat district, Peter Parker’s apartment, and Aunt May’s grave. The mode swings in on July 30, one day before Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens in theatres - so Indian fans can watch Peter Parker on the big screen and play him on the Battlegrounds in the same week

  • Ferrari - makes its first-ever entry into BGMI with four legendary models, the Roma, Purosangue, LaFerrari and SF90 XX Spider, each in multiple colour variants, The collaboration with Ferrari and Scuderia Ferrari HP also parks a Formula 1 car on the battleground - players can trigger a special viewing sequence at display stands across the map and take in-game photos with the Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 car.

All three collaborations were revealed individually ahead of launch and are now live together as part of the 4.5 season - the most authentic representation of global IPs the game has ever delivered.

India Doesn’t Just Play BGMI - It Builds It

At the heart of BGMI’s evolution into a platform is its player-created WOW ecosystem, where more than 50,000 creators design maps that are collectively played tens of millions of times. The 4.5 update expands it with all-new experiences headlined by Steal a Brain Rot and its companion mode Shoot a Brain Rot, created in collaboration with DoBiG - blending fast-paced action with tycoon-style progression as players collect, upgrade and battle Brain Rot characters. From bank-heist maps to parkour challenges, WOW has become a reason players return every night, and a clear demonstration of what happens when a platform of BGMI’s scale hands its community the tools to create. Also Read | BGMI 4.5 Update iOS Download Link and Guide

India-Themed Card Collections

The 4.5 update evolves BGMI’s Card Collection System - a feature built on the same nostalgia Indians feel for the cricket trump cards they collected as kids. Cards are now easier to collect, exchange and complete, redeemable directly using theme tokens, with refreshed rotations and improved mutual-assistance and exchange features. The season introduces new India-themed and Naruto-themed cards, alongside a new Flash Card featuring the Karambit, Blazing Sun, deepening the collectible experience built around the moments Indian players love most.

And the Biggest Reveal Is Still to Come

BGMI’s celebration of India’s creator ecosystem continues this season, and the 4.5 update saves some of its biggest surprises for later. One of the country’s most-loved and most-followed creators, CarryMinati will feature heavily in the Battlegrounds in the weeks ahead, with an all-new set of in-game experiences - and a major reveal timed closer to Independence Day. Full details will follow soon. This is one moment the community won’t want to miss.

A Full Season of Rewards; Three New X-Suits

Beyond its headline collaborations, BGMI 4.5 delivers three new X-Suits with an exciting upgrade progression mechanic wherein players can choose 1 of the X-Suit forms and upgrade them while completing missions. For the first time, players can acquire upgrade materials by completing dedicated X-Suit missions and upgrade them all the way to it's highest form by pure grind.

The 4.5 season arrives as BGMI marks its fifth anniversary - and as KRAFTON India enters the second year of a multi-year shift from game to platform. The season also deepens the social layer that makes BGMI a daily habit. A new Flash Crew season arrives with Naruto-themed crew items, and squads can now schedule matches up to seven days in advance with Team-Up Reservation - the game reminds offline teammates as the slot approaches and brings the whole crew together when it arrives. A new Private Squad setting gives players full control over who sees their team-up status. For millions of players, BGMI is where the squad plans its evening, not just where it plays."Social hubs where players gather, and chitchat after an intense rank-push, a creation ecosystem that turns players into builders, a collectibles culture rooted in Indian nostalgia, and collaborations now fully Indianised across autos, fashion, sports and anime: together, they point to a future where BGMI is the full entertainment experience for India’s players. Five years in, it remains the game leading India’s gaming scene - and increasingly, the platform India builds together.

BGMI 4.5 Update: Key Dates

Jul 16: Naruto: Ninjas Assemble Theme Mode, Ferrari Speed Drift, Card Collection Bonus Event, Shinobi Spree and WOW Token Upgrade go live

Jul 19: Naruto Gold Spin and Naruto Mini Royale Pass launch

Jul 20: Buddy Spin begins

Jul 22: Friendship Day Exchange Event starts

Jul 23: Royale Pass A20 launches, along with Naruto-themed WOW experiences including Valley of the End and Konoha Village

Jul 24: AG Bonus Challenge Matches and the first AG Bonus Exchange begin

Jul 30: Spider-Man: Brand New Day Theme Mode arrives

Aug 1: Druvaen X-Suit and UC Up Event (30K Tier) begin

Aug 2: Independence Day Spin launches

Aug 6: Independence Day DSB Event begins

Aug 7: Brain Rot WOW experiences — Steal a Brain Rot and Shoot a Brain Rot — become available

Aug 8: Independence Day Exchange Event begins

Aug 15: Carry Minati Collaboration

Aug 26: Phantasia Siren Gold Spin begins

Aug 31: Second DSB Event starts

Sep 2: Ethereal Crate launches

Sep 7: Ferrari collaboration ends