Despite being owned by Riot, Minecraft spiritual successor Hytale says it hasn't been impacted by layoffs at the League of Legends studio
Hytale was purchased by Riot several years ago
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The “production plan for Hytale has not changed,” writes Hypixel in the tweet above, signalling that there’s been no impact to Hytale’s development at all. That’s a little bit surprising, considering the vast number of staff Riot laid off earlier this week, but it’s no doubt a major relief for anyone looking forward to the upcoming game.
If you’re unfamiliar with Hytale, it’s the ambitious product of the Hypixel Minecraft server, where the developers decided to make their own game instead of continuing in Minecraft itself, due to changes to Minecraft’s EULA. Hytale originally entered production all the way back in 2015, before being eventually announced three years later in 2018.
However, progress hasn’t been what audiences were expecting in the year since. Last month in December, Hypixel put …
