Official Site: SMITE
Studio: Hi-Rez Studios
Launch Date: March 25, 2014
Genre: Mythological Fantasy MOBA
Business Model: F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Xbox One
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Hi-Rez is basically maintenance-moding Hand of the Gods
Back in May, we covered the bizarre silence surrounding Hi-Rez's SMITE-infused free-to-play online card game Hand of the Gods. At the time, the information...
SMITE is getting a battle royale mode adventure of its very own in 5.10
Battle royale is the thing to do lately, and by Zeus, SMITE is doing that thing: In update 5.10, the Hi-Rez MOBA will introduce...
SMITE’s Dragon’s Fortune is live today as Hi-Rez works to fix server crashes
SMITE 5.9: Dragon's Fortune is technically live on all three major platforms today, with a pile of bug fixes, new skins, new chest items, and...
SMITE says it’s banned or suspended 20,000 toxic players in season five alone
Toxic players, beware: Hi-Rez may not be talking to its Hand of the Gods players, but it's cracking way down on SMITE miscreants. The...
It’s been three weeks since Hand of the Gods players have had any news from Hi-Rez
Stretch your mind back to February 20th, when Hi-Rez's SMITE-infused free-to-play online card game Hand of the Gods formally launched. The studio appeared to...
SMITE launches patch 5.8 with Chernobog and the Divine Uprising
If you've ever felt like SMITE has mined out a few pantheons for all the material that's available, you'll be happy to know that...
The Daily Grind: Would you like MMORPGs to have seasonal passes?
Between the waves of MOBA and battle royale phenomenons, I've noticed an alternative monetization model that's apparently proven quite successful in these games. Seasonal...
Hi-Rez founds e-sports production company Skillshot, preps Chernobog for SMITE
Hi-Rez is going all in on e-sports, founding its own e-sports production outfit called Skillshot Media and lending longtime COO Todd Harris to oversee...
Hi-Rez President Stewart Chisam vows to improve SMITE’s patch quality
Every year brings a lot of patches for SMITE. A new official post on the game's subreddit penned by Hi-Rez President Stewart Chisam puts...
SMITE parties hard with Patch 5.5
Even the gods like a good party every now and then. Actually, pretty much all of the time, if you read some of the...
The Stream Team: Celebrating SMITE’s 4th birthday
It's been four years since SMITE sped onto the scene; that's four years of gods smashing other gods on the battleground. It's been a...
Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen
Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...
Perfect Ten: A dozen MOBAs that didn’t make it
With the insane success -- both in terms of popularity and finances -- that Dota and League of Legends spawned, you can easily understand...
The Stream Team: SMITE’s new adventure is adorable anime
When you think of raging gods battling it out, do you think adorable? Well, now you do. SMITE's new adventure ups the cuteness meter...
Massively OP’s guide to Valentine’s Day 2018 across the MMORPG-verse
Is your Valentine's day about love, friendship, or free candy from mom? In MMORPGs, it's about questing, murder, and free loot! So, yeah, kinda...
SMITE-spinoff online TCG Hand of the Gods is launching on February 20th
Hi-Rez's online card game Hand of the Gods: SMITE Tactics is getting a real launch set for February 20th on both PC and console....
Da Ji and the Legend of the Foxes brings an anime adventure to SMITE
For a MOBA, SMITE sure doesn't play by rules, or at least any rules we recognize. Hi-Rez seems to be constantly reinventing the game...
SMITE 5.1 is a virtual do-over for the Conquest map
SMITE's massive 5.1 patch is live today on PC, complete with the heavily overhauled and graphically updated Conquest map. There's a new tutorial for...
Hi-Rez apologizes for SMITE recruitment video that cracked Paragon jokes
Hi-Rez has apologized for a brief video that invites soon-to-be-homeless Paragon players and everyone else to come play SMITE that was apparently taken as an...
SMITE promises improvements to the console experience for players in 2018
The nice thing about SMITE is that whether you prefer to play your games on consoles or on desktop computers, the game gives you...
