Hi-Rez Bringing Popular Hero Shooter 'Paladins' to Mobile with 'Paladins Strike', Sign-Ups...

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Hi-Rez Studios has announced that they'll be bringing their popular free to play class-based shooter (or "hero shooter" if you want to go by the more en vogue term)
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to mobile as a new spinoff game called Paladins Strike. Whereas the desktop and console version of Paladins is a first-person shooter, Paladins Strike is played from an overhead view and looks to have more in common with a MOBA than it does a first-person shooter. Probably for the best given how first-person shooters haven't quite taken off on touchscreens. Check out this first trailer for Paladins Strike which is looking quite awesome.

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This isn't Hi-Rez's first foray into the world of mobile gaming. Jetpack Fighter [
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] launched in January of 2016 and was something of an action platformer built with touchscreen controls in mind. It didn't seem to make a HUGE mark on the mobile world, but it's a solid game that found its fanbase. Then this past January, they
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Smite Rivals, which looked to take their popular MOBA Smite and give it the Clash Royale [
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] treatment. Sadly just a couple of months later the project was
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and it's unknown what its fate will ultimately be.

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Hopefully Paladins Strike can fulfill that promise of bringing one of their popular IPs to mobile in a form that makes sense and is successful, and just based on the trailer it looks like it's on the right track. Hi-Rez is currently taking Alpha testing signups for Paladins Strike on the
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so go fill out the form if you're interested in testing and we'll bring you any further news on the game as its development continues.

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