Building up the esports infrastructure for Smite’s esports community has been a lot of work. Over six years, the community of players has grown to nearly 30 million. Todd Harris, cofounder of Hi-Rez ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Multiplayer online battle arena game Smite launched in March last year after a two year-long beta period. Highly competitive in nature, the game pits ...

Utterly obsessed with gaming, anime, and manga for the past 25 years, Carley attended Florida State University, graduating with a degree in Japanese in 2012. A professional Japanese/English translator ...

Layoffs are happening at Hi-Rez Studios as the group moves to reform its priorities around Smite 2. Alongside an layoff of allegedly 70 employees, several games in the Hi-Rez portfolio are halting ...

Today marks a very important moment for Smite 2. The Unreal Engine 5 sequel to the iconic, godly MOBA hasn't had the smoothest of rides in early access so far, but after plenty of hard work to improve ...

Update: An EA spokesperson shared the following statement with IGN. "Following incorrect reports suggesting that we are looking to introduce 'TV-style' commercials into our games, we wanted to clarify ...

When is the Smite 2 1.0 release date? Following some confusion around the Smite sequel thanks to a closed alpha period in May 2024 and an incorrect release date on Steam, the official free-to-play ...

If you've got a successful live service game on your hands these days, I can only imagine how careful you'd be to make sure to not mess it up. The best free-to-play games are crumbling en masse like ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Xbox One will soon be getting its first free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena game in the form of Smite, which launches into open beta on ...

The new game teased last week by Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios has been revealed as Paladins, a free-to-play team-based shooter with strategy elements and character progression enabled through decks ...

SMITE is an online battleground between mythical gods. SMITE is similar to DotA games but with a few significant changes including a third-person perspective and WASD movement. Players choose from a ...

Tim is an Australian Senior Editor based in Germany who has been passionate about video games since he first picked up a PlayStation 1 controller to play Crash Bandicoot as a kid. He started out with ...