Hi-Rez Studios Introducing New Arena Game Mode

ATLANTA. November 1, 2012. Hi-Rez Studios, independent developer of AAA free-to-play online games, today announced that the action MOBA game SMITE will get an additional game mode with the next patch.

The new mode, called Arena, is a very action-oriented, team death match and takes place on a brand new map with a Colosseum setting.


Arena is played 5 versus 5 with minions and side-objectives including buff camps and Gryphon Guardians. But rather than a single end objective, in Arena your team earns points for killing enemy players and minions with the first team to deduct 500 points from their opponents being crowned the winner.

"SMITE is all about action combat," says Hi-Rez Studios Chief Operating Officer Todd Harris. "So we wanted an additional game type that allows players to get into the action even faster. One of our level designers took the initiative to put together this more open Colosseum map concept on his own time. We've enjoyed playing it so much that the team has worked overtime to get the new mode quickly into the hands of our Beta community and we look forward to their feedback"

This looks awesome! And very appropriate for the story and such as well. ^^

Well, I guess I'll have to take down my blog post now >.<

Can't wait to test it out!!

It's fine to leave it up! Haha. Some people might check blogs that don't check the news section. :)

This mode is AWESOME!! I don't think I can really play the normal mode again after this one. This mode is just so much more calm and casual and I'm glad I'm not getting yelled at every 5 seconds like I would be when I play Conquest.

I know it's a bit too early to judge, but thank god it didn't end up like dominion from LoL. Dominion took 8 months to develop or something like that, and look how big of a flop it was.

I actually prefer it to the normal games atm