Hytale is a new open world adventure game.
Hytale is a new open world adventure game.
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Riot Games acquires Hypixel Studios, maker of upcoming Minecraft-like game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Riot Games has acquired Hypixel Studios, a maker of an upcoming game that resembles the popular titles Minecraft and Roblox. Hypixel’s Hytale is going to be a user-generated content (UGC) game — a community-powered sandbox world with a blocky 8-bit art style.

The game originated from the creators of Hypixel, the world’s largest mod server. Riot Games has known the company for a while, as it provided initial funding for it. The team behind the Hypixel server network, the world’s largest independent game server, announced the game back in 2018. The game has already had 2.5 million sign-ups, and it will be available by 2021.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.