Riot Games acquires Hypixel Studios, maker of upcoming Minecraft-like game

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.