{"id":10778,"date":"2025-11-18T19:39:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hypixel-studios-buys-its-ip-from-riot-so-hytale-is-back-in-development\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:39:46","slug":"hypixel-studios-buys-its-ip-from-riot-so-hytale-is-back-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hypixel-studios-buys-its-ip-from-riot-so-hytale-is-back-in-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypixel Studios buys its IP from Riot, so Hytale is back in development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Hypixel Studios has officially purchased the license to <em>Hytale <\/em>from Riot Games, <ins>according to a report by <\/ins><em><ins>Game Developer<\/ins><\/em>. This means that <ins>development will continue<\/ins> just months after <ins>Riot shut everything down<\/ins> and cancelled the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The developer is also rehiring 30 staffers that were laid off as part of the cancellation. We write so often about <ins>layoffs in the industry<\/ins>, so it&rsquo;s always a distinct treat to cover the opposite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Hypixel co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme calls this a &ldquo;new and exciting chapter&rdquo; for the game, which has been in development for nearly ten years. He says he is &ldquo;grateful to Riot Games for making this possible.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_5jipqtialuknpfmlbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_9jipqtialuknpfmlbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Riot Games, which is owned by the conglomerate Tencent, <ins>purchased Hypixel Studios back in 2020<\/ins> for an undisclosed sum. However, <em>Hytale<\/em> was riding high at that point. The game had attracted over 2.5 million signees for an upcoming beta and was supposed to be officially released in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Years passed, and still no <em>Hytale<\/em>. This eventually led to Riot canning the project entirely. &ldquo;After years of pushing forward, adapting, and exploring every possible path, it became clear we couldn&rsquo;t bring <em>Hytale<\/em> to life in a way that truly delivered on its promise,&rdquo; <ins>an official post<\/ins> on the Hypixel website once read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The studio hasn&rsquo;t disclosed how it got funding for this move, but Collins-Laflamme said that the founders are &ldquo;personally committed to funding for the next 10 years.&rdquo; Here&rsquo;s to hoping the game is actually playable by that point. To that end, the company does plan on announcing an early access release date in the near future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\"><em>&ldquo;Hytale<\/em> has had a long and challenging journey. It&rsquo;s taken longer than anyone hoped, and it&rsquo;s changed a lot along the way,&rdquo; the company wrote. &ldquo;This is not going to be easy. This is not going to be fast. This is not going to be perfect. But it&rsquo;s going to be ours. Built together: one feature at a time, one bug fix at a time, one mod at a time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">For the uninitiated, <em>Hytale<\/em> is a nifty-looking adventure game that can be described as an open world riff on <em>Minecraft<\/em>. It certainly looks like <em>Minecraft<\/em>, but it has a much bigger emphasis on action and RPG mechanics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Hypixel Studios buys its IP from Riot, so Hytale is back in development<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypixel Studios has officially purchased the license to Hytale from Riot Games, according to a report by Game Developer. This means that development will continue just months after Riot shut everything down and cancelled the project. The developer is also rehiring 30 staffers that were laid off as part of the cancellation. We write so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hypixel-studios-buys-its-ip-from-riot-so-hytale-is-back-in-development\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Hypixel Studios buys its IP from Riot, so Hytale is back in development&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}