Hi-Rez Studios

In a space dominated by PUBG, Fortnite, Call of Duty’s Blackout, and more recently Apex Legends, Realm Royale from Heroic Leap Games and Hi-Rez Studios has mostly been in the background. The fantasy battle royale game may be looking to expand its audience, with a now-taken down trailer on Nintendo’s Portugal YouTube account seemingly confirming
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SMITE recently hit 100 playable gods following this year’s SMITE World Championship, but they also announced that they’d be bringing their game to the Nintendo Switch. Now, players can access a closed beta of the game on Switch by purchasing the Founder’s Pack. The Founder’s Pack costs $29.99 and includes every god (including future releases)
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A Reddit post recently relayed possible information from Chinese gaming forum NGA. According to the translation from Reddit user /u/ZeroWolfe547, China’s Online Gaming Ethics Review Committee looked over 20 popular online games for potential “ethic risks,” reportedly banning 9 of them, including PUBG, Fortnite, and Paladins. The Chinese gaming community may have another crackdown on
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It’s the biggest time of the year for SMITE. Hi-Rez Expo features the game’s world championships on PC and console as well as cosplay and announcements for the Georgia-native developer’s 3rd-person MOBA.Hi-Rez Studios has combined its expo with DreamHack Atlanta this year to bring eSports together on an even larger scale. I got the chance
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After having been in Early Access via Steam for nearly two months, Hi-Rez Studios today announced that Realm Royale will be arriving on Xbox One and PS4 next week. This announcement comes alongside Hi-Rez also revealing that 4 million players have checked out Realm Royale so far on PC. The PS4 and Xbox One versions of Realm Royale have
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We aren’t even into the first sentence of the article, and I know what you are already asking. “Lou, are you kidding me?” Fortnite is a worldwide phenomenon — lightning in a bottle. Any comparison to it must be hyperbolic. And yeah, I usually agree there. But that doesn’t mean Hi-Rez Studios isn’t setting themselves
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It’s been a whirlwind month for Hi-Rez Studios. After finally launching their hero-based shooter Paladins out of Early Access in early May, they have come to a minor PR setback: one of their contracted art studios pretty obviously plagiarized Paladins’ heaviest competitor, Overwatch. Seen in the gif above (created by Redditor Arcieth) you can notice the obvious artwork rip of Overwatch‘s Lijiang
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Today SMITE developer Hi-Rez Studios announced something rather peculiar, in the form of the next SMITE Adventure, which is an anime-style horde mode experience titled Da Ji and the Legend of the Foxes. The adventure comes with an entirely different anime-inspired art style and prompts players to defeat relentless waves of enemies. The mode’s protagonist, Senpai
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While the fate of Paragon is hanging in suspension, the MOBA’s main competitor on console — SMITE — seems to be simply building up steam. Following the SMITE World Championships and HRX 2018, developer Hi-Rez Studios is already detailing all the major changes for Season 5 of SMITE. While Hi-Rez already released a video earlier last week detailing in general terms
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It’s only been a few days since the reveal of Paladins: Battlegrounds — the battle royale mode of Hi-Rez’s class-based shooter — and the studio has revealed pre-Alpha gameplay footage of the game in motion. Though some may notice a lot of similarities between Paladins: Battlegrounds and other games on the market, the game mode makes a name
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Earlier today it was revealed that Paladins: Champions of the Realm will be opening up a brand new mode title Paladins: Battlegrounds, a battle-royale take on Hi-Rez Studios’ hero-based shooter.  And it didn’t take long for fans and critics alike to note the similarities between Paladins: Battlegrounds and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds — most specifically, the name. DualShockers got a moment to speak exclusively
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