Paladins: Champions of the Realm | |
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![]() Xbox store artwork, featuring the game's playable characters | |
Developer(s) | Evil Mojo Games |
Publisher(s) | Hi-Rez Studios |
Engine | Unreal Engine 3 |
Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch[a] |
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Genre(s) | First-person shooter, hero shooter |
Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Paladins: Champions of the Realm is a 2018 free-to-play online hero shooter video game by Hi-Rez Studios. The game was developed by Evil Mojo, an internal studio of Hi-Rez and was released on May 8, 2018, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, followed by a Nintendo Switch version released on June 12, 2018.
Paladins was initially announced in 2012 as Global Agenda 2 and was scheduled to be released in mid-2013,[1][2] intended as the sequel or spiritual sequel to the PvP mode of Global Agenda according to some developers.[3] The game changed its name several times; in the end the developers renamed the game as Paladins in early August 2015.[4] The game had pre-alpha and alpha versions during 2015 but were not shown until August 3, 2015, when outlets like IGN were given permission to show the game content.[5] Despite attempts to hide it, there were leaks about much of the game's content.[citation needed] The Paladins closed beta started on November 17, 2015.[6] In the Open Beta, the game appeared on September 16, 2016, in the Steam Early Access program.[7]
Evil Mojo ended support for the Nintendo Switch version on June 21, 2023.[8] Following layoffs at Evil Mojo, active development was halted on February 6, 2025.[9]
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