Official Site:Â Paladins
Studio:Â Hi-Rez Studios
Launch Date:Â N/A
Genre:Â Shooter
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Xbox One, PS4
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Hi-Rez hit with layoffs as it reduces teams on Paladins and Classic SMITE in favor of SMITE 2
Hi-Rez Studios and its sub-studios are embarking on a wave of layoffs, CEO Stewart Chisam announced bright and early this morning. Chisam characterizes the...
Tarisland announces a global release date of June 21 – here’s the new trailer
There have been a lot of teases, previews, and tests over the past few months, but now Tencent's WoW-like MMORPG Tarisland has locked down...
Second Wind: The problem with World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight’s class design
It's time for part two of this four part Second Wind series on revisiting World of Warcraft after many years away. In the first...
Tarisland says male mages and female paladins are the next step in gender-unlocking
We're down to the last of Tencent's announced dev blogs for Tarisland focusing on how the studio has tweaked the game between the last...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on new job abilities for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail
I'm not going to lie: It feels as if Dawntrail kind of leaped into action with the Final Fantasy XIV fandom. The fan festival...
Perfect Ten: 10 times World of Warcraft was killed forever
As many of you reading this may know, World of Warcraft is a game that launched and then immediately died forever. It then proceeded...
Vague Patch Notes: When MMO designers build traps for players
So last week, I spent a whole lot of words talking about what "the meta" actually means when it comes to MMOs. Put very...
Neverwinter’s Spelljammer module sends players into Wildspace with today’s launch
As promised, today is patch day for Cryptic's Neverwinter, in spite of the shadow of studio layoffs hanging over the company thanks to Embracer's...
Neverwinter details Spelljammer’s updates to boons, the Paladin class, and several UI elements
It's easy to get lost in the sauce of Neverwinter's upcoming Spelljammer module being mostly about riding the titular airship around areas of Wildspace,...
BlizzCon 2023: WoW Classic panel reveals Cataclysm, Hardcore, and Season of Discovery
Despite shouts of "Classic Plus!" coming from the crowd at BlizzCon, Blizzard resolutely pushed forward the more predictable path for World of Warcraft Classic:...
Neverwinter previews Spelljammer’s Defense of the Moondancer trial
On Halloween, Cryptic rather abruptly announced Spelljammer, Neverwinter's next module, for November 7th. In addition to adding a new adventure zone and overhauls of...
Massively Overthinking: The ‘elements’ of MMOs
MOP reader Nibbana recently posed us a fun question: "As I play my Scrapper in Guild Wars 2, I thought to myself, man, I...
WoW Factor: What would World of Warcraft ‘Classic Plus’ even look like?
So before I start this column, I want to make something very clear: I do not for one moment, in my heart of hearts,...
WoW Factor: Long-shot potential additions for World of Warcraft’s next expansion
Last time we were here, I wound up just talking about potential class and race additions for the next World of Warcraft expansion. As...
WoW Factor: Potential features for the next World of Warcraft expansion
Last week I talked about potential destinations for the next World of Warcraft expansion, which is actually a pretty short list when you think...
Hi-Rez Studio president adjusts a contract rider for voice actors after being called out for potential AI use
If you've been on gaming Twitter anytime recently, you might have seen a thread started by voice actor Henry Schrader that was calling attention...
The Daily Grind: What MMO class concepts need a complete refresh?
Not all tropes are bad. Familiar patterns ease us into unfamiliar settings and systems, and so I understand why MMO developers aren't constantly reinventing...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever run MMO dungeons with a one-class group?
A few weeks ago, MOP's Colin mentioned that he's fond of Guild Wars 2 strikes specifically because there's no gear requirement or meta rules,...
The MOP Up: Destiny 2 will compensate fan whose art was misappropriated for a cutscene
Bungie has major egg on its face after a recent Destiny 2 cutscene was found to have copied fan art from a couple of...
Here’s how WoW Classic’s newly unveiled Hardcore servers will work
As we reported in May, World of Warcraft Classic is adopting the hugely popular Classic Hardcore server ruleset for future implementation. And while we...
