Riot is shutting down studio behind its Minecraft-like game

Riot Games is closing the workplace down Hytale, its Minecraft-like crippled that has been successful improvement for astir a decade. Hypixel Studios, which Riot acquired successful 2020 for an undisclosed sum, is shutting down “over the adjacent fewer months,” according to Hypixel CEO Aaron “Noxy” Donaghey.

“After years of pushing forward, adapting, and exploring each imaginable path, it became wide we couldn’t bring Hytale to beingness successful a mode that genuinely delivered connected its promise,“ says Donaghey successful a post connected X. ”This is simply a achy decision. We inactive judge successful Hytale. We judge successful the team, and are everlastingly grateful to each member, past oregon present, who poured their emotion into the game.“

Hytale has been successful development since 2015, erstwhile Hypixel was founded arsenic a tiny indie workplace by members of a fashionable Minecraft server network. A trailer was released successful precocious 2018, and Hypixel was expected to present a beta of Hytale successful 2021 pursuing the Riot acquisition a twelvemonth prior. That beta ne'er arrived, and successful 2021 determination was a large alteration to the crippled motor powering Hytale that acceptable improvement back.

“Our method ambitions grew much complex, and adjacent aft a large reboot of the crippled engine, the squad recovered that Hytale inactive wasn’t arsenic acold on arsenic it needed to be,“ says Donaghey. ”It became wide we’d request a batch much clip to get it to a spot wherever it could enactment the ambitious imaginativeness for the game.“

The Hypixel closure won’t impact the Hypixel server connected Minecraft, which is tally separately from Hypixel Studios. Despite the workplace closure, Donaghey says he’s “deeply grateful to Riot” and that the squad is being “supported with generous severance and resources to assistance them find what’s next.”