Paladins (video game)

Paladins: Champions of the Realm is a 2018 free-to-play online hero shooter video game by Hi-Rez Studios. The game was developed by Evil Mojo, an internal studio of Hi-Rez and was released on May 8, 2018, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, followed by a Nintendo Switch version released on June 12, 2018.

Paladins was initially announced on October 3, 2012. as Global Agenda 2 and was scheduled to be released in mid-2013, intended as the sequel or spiritual sequel to the PvP mode of Global Agenda according to developers. After the closure of Global Agenda, it was decided to turn the game into a new franchise, so the game had several delays and changed its name several times, in the end the developers renamed the game as Paladins in early August 2015. The game had pre-alpha and alpha versions during 2015 but were not shown until August 3, 2015, when outlets like IGN were given permission to show the game content. But in September 2014, much of the game's content was leaked, despite the developers' attempts to avoid revealing information about the game. The Paladins closed beta started on November 17, 2015. In the Open Beta, the game appeared on September 16, 2016, in the Steam Early Access program.

Evil Mojo ended support for the Nintendo Switch version on June 21, 2023. Following layoffs at Evil Mojo, active development of Paladins as a whole was halted on February 6, 2025.