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The Latest Breaking News from Hopoo

‘Half-Life’ Developer Valve Gobbles Up An Indie Studio For An Unknown Project

'Risk of Rain' creator Hopoo Games is closing its doors as its staff joins Valve on an unknown project.

Inverse · Sep 3, 2024

Risk of Rain 2's creators, along with 'many other' devs from Hopoo, have been snapped up by Valve—which means the end of the studio's unannounced game

Going the way of the Campo.

PC Gamer · Sep 3, 2024

After Gearbox's disastrous Risk of Rain 2 DLC launch, the roguelike's original devs announce their move to Valve: "We love making games – and will continue to do so, for years to come"

Many of Hopoo Games' devs - including its co-founders- are now at Valve

GamesRadar · Sep 3, 2024

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Amid Risk of Rain 2 DLC blowback, the roguelike's creators say "it sucks" for fans and the new devs at Gearbox, but those new devs say fixes are coming and this is "just the beginning"

"It's great to see new content for the game, but it's hard to see growing pains," says Hopoo co-founder

GamesRadar · Aug 30, 2024

"My poor baby": As Risk of Rain 2's first Gearbox-made DLC takes a hammer to the beloved roguelike, the game's original programmer fears it "must have been rushed out"

Risk of Rain 2 programmer weighs in on Seekers of the Storm

GamesRadar · Aug 30, 2024

Risk of Rain 2, one of our favorite roguelikes, is getting a game-changing character: the Seeker, a team-reviving beast inspired by classic RPG monks and Tai Chi

Risk of Rain 2's next DLC, Seekers of the Storm, brings a feature fans have wanted for years

GamesRadar · Aug 8, 2024

Risk of Rain Returns has done the impossible: make one of the greatest roguelikes of the past 10 years a lot better

Risk of Rain's remake borrows from its sequel to make an old game feel better than new

GamesRadar · Nov 17, 2023

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Borderlands company Gearbox buys the rights to beloved indie roguelike Risk of Rain, immediately makes a free-to-play mobile gacha game

The first non-Hopoo Risk of Rain game is exactly what many series fans had feared

GamesRadar · Nov 13, 2023

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