Hi-Rez Studios has officially shared the roadmap for Smite 8.3 update last night. The new update will be rolled out in three phases and will bring some quality of life improvements to the gameplay and servers while fixing dozens of bugs and balancing a significant number of Gods and items. Let’s dive into the details
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First Watch Games, a subsidiary of Hi-Rez Studios, finally revealed the first gameplay trailer for its upcoming multiplayer shooter Rogue Company in a new fun trailer. Although the exact release date is yet to be announced, you can sign-up for the Alpha version of the game as of now. Check out the trailer down below:
Paladins: Champions of the Realm is a multiplayer shooter from developer Evil Mojo Games and publisher Hi-Rez Studios. The game originally launched on PC, PS4, and Xbox One before coming to Nintendo Switch in 2018. And now it’s coming to the Epic Game Store, giving players even more ways to get into Evil Mojo’s character
During September’s Nintendo Direct we got our first look at Rogue Company, a new free-to-play multiplayer shooter for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One from Hi-Rez Studios and First Watch Games. While the SMITE publisher has not shown the game off much since then, they delved into it thoroughly during the Hi-Rez Expo 2019
Hi-Rez Studios’ SMITE remains an incredibly popular MOBA and is supported with consistent updates to this day, even as the company introduces new games like Rogue Company. The latest battle pass for SMITE is one of the most notable in a long time as Rooster Teeth’s popular show RWBY has taken over the battle pass’ contents.
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
Evil Mojo Games has revealed the next major character coming to Paladins: Champions of the Realm: Atlas. This has been a announcement built up over the past few months as Evil Mojo Games has teased it as part of their lore campaign. Part of it was through in-game hints such as portols in the Shattered
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)
During the heyday of battle royale last year, when PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite were novelties to the general public, everyone was right to assume that the genre would take off and inspire numerous clones in the near future. A year later there are several of these for sure — probably in early access on Steam
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
Heroic Leap Games, one of the studios that spun out of Hi-Rez Studios, has been relatively quiet about Realm Royale during the game’s closed beta. The studio has committed to updating their aspiring Fortnite and PUBG competitor in announcing the Founder’s Pack for the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game’s beta. This Founder’s
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
SMITE is getting a new pantheon heading into 2019: Arthurian. The first to “gods” to fill it out will be King Arthur (of course) and Merlin. DualShockers got the chance to speak with the Lead Designer on SMITE–AJ Walker–who listed some of the other Arthurian prospects that did not make the cut. N: “Now that
After a week of rumors and leaks, Hi-Rez Studios announced that SMITE, a 3rd-person MOBA, is officially coming to the Nintendo Switch. The announcement came during the company’s keynote at DreamHack Atlanta. The closed beta is set to become playable on January 24, 2019. Players can take part in the closed beta by purchasing the
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
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
E3 2018 is upon us, and supposed leaks are popping up left and right. However, ahead of the conference, developer Hi-Rez Studios has already confirmed one of the rumors. A Nintendo Switch version of Paladins is very real, and will be coming to Nintendo’s home console in under a week in Early Access. Those not looking to
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
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
Smite is amidst the top-downloaded free-to-play games on both Xbox One and PS4, though in recent months these platforms have been finding more and more challenges when it came to keeping up with the game as it lives and breathes on PC. With the game’s world championship in the rearview mirror, it seems the developers
While Hi-Rez Studios is ramping up to Season 5 and the 2018 Season Ticket for SMITE, they want to make sure the last season ends with a bang — namely a Double Everything Weekend. Those looking to grind Favor or Worshippers should clear their calendars, as the event starts this Friday. News comes by way of
In the beginning of any SMITE season, it isn’t any surprise to regular players that they will receive a flurry of news. Whether it is reworking the main conquest map or a list of God rebalances, most of the action and movement on development seem to happen in the beginning of the year. Included in this rework
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
Now that eUnited has taken home the Smite World Championship 2018 trophy, fans and competitors in and of the game alike can continue talking about the upcoming changes to the conquest map in Season 5. With significant aesthetic and mechanical overhauls, Hi-Rez Studios decided to go behind the scenes in one of their latest videos to
As far as SMITE goes, one may even contend that Cerberus is the best boy, though Skadi, Fenrir, and Erlang Shen might have something to say about it. As the newest god to be added from the Greek pantheon, Cerberus is a guardian whose offensive kit and unique passive make him a terror on the battlefield. You
Over the weekend, Hi-Rez Expo 2018 gave us a ton of news about the future of the developer’s many IPs like Paladins: Champions of the Realm and SMITE. On Friday, Hi-Rez Studios released a new video showcasing just how the audio for the studios’ games is designed and conceptualized. In the video, we get the chance to go hands-on
Hi-Rez Expo 2018 has been a hot-bed for both SMITE and Paladins: Champions of the Realm news, and that continues into the last day of the event. In a brand new video released earlier today, developer Hi-Rez Studios delves further into the background and characters in a way untouched in the series before. In the video (seen below) we
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
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
Following a plethora of announcements from Hi-Rez Expo 2018 this weekend, Hi-Rez Studios has revealed a new game, an RTS title for iOS and Android called Bot Smashers. It was revealed via a trailer that mixes cinematics with a brief glimpse of gameplay. Bot Smashers is described as a “1v1 base-building strategy game” by its