Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Omeda Studios launched its multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game Predecessor into open beta today on PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4/5 and Xbox Series X|S. This beta represents the […]
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Omeda Studios launches open beta for Predecessor MOBA on March 28
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. Omeda Studios is launching an open beta for Predecessor in an attempt to create some elbow room alongside League of Legends and DOTA 2 in the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre. […]
Read MoreParagon can’t catch a break: Less than two years after being brought back to life, it’s closing again
Paragon: The Overprime, the game that launched from the rubble of Epic’s ill-fated MOBA Paragon, has suffered the same fate as its predecessor. Developer Netmarble announced today that the game will be shuttered for good in April. Paragon launched into early access in 2016 but it failed to make a splash with players. Epic made […]
Read More6 years after it closed for good, a free-to-play hero shooter is making a comeback as a paid game with ‘zero microtransactions’
The MOBA-hero shooter Gigantic made a good impression when we first checked it out in 2014, but it didn’t catch fire with fans, and in 2018 it closed its doors for good. But following a surprise “limited time throwback event” in October 2023, Gearbox has now announced that it’s coming back for real as Gigantic: […]
Read MoreRiot lays off 530 employees, will close Riot Forge: ‘We’re not doing this to appease shareholders or to hit some quarterly earnings number,’ says CEO
Riot Games has announced that it’s “refocusing on fewer, high-impact projects” to move “toward a more sustainable future,” and that means layoffs: Roughly 530 employees, representing 11% of Riot’s total workforce, have been let go. In an email sent to employees, Riot CEO Dylan Jadeja said that the company has made “a number of big […]
Read MoreA dystopian sci-fi MOBA was the last thing I expected from the studio behind Dave the Diver, but it’s real and playable soon
Nothing about Wakerunners looks like it came from the same studio as Dave the Diver, but, then again, nothing about Nakwon: Last Paradise did either. Mintrocket has a third game on its way and it’s a sci-fi MOBA where characters move around like they’re permanently wearing skates. In Wakerunners’ dystopian sci-fi future, people broke off […]
Read MoreAfter 10 years, Titan Forge unveils Smite 2, bringing the god-battling MOBA to UE5 and offering goodies to old-timers
Prepare to be smote. Smited. Smitten. Look, they’re making another Smite—Titan Forge’s godly and enduringly popular MOBA that first released in 2014—and it’s gearing up for an alpha test, should you wish to rage against the heavens as soon as possible. Revealed at the Smite world championships, Titan Forge is pitching Smite 2 as “everything […]
Read MoreLeague of Legends forced to immediately redesign its new dragon champ after fans point out its alarming similarity to an actual human child
You know how it goes: sometimes you aim for Spyro and land on Boss Baby. At least, that’s how I assume Riot arrived at the initial design for Smolder, League of Legends’ newest champion. Announced last week, Smolder is an “audacious dragon cutie” whose design was intended to evoke a kind of mascot-ish, Pixar/Dreamworks-style cuteness […]
Read MoreHeroes of the Storm comes full circle as a mod of the game of the mod
I’ve never really got on with mobas, the exception to the rule being Blizzard’s excellent Heroes of the Storm. Inspired by Defense of the Ancients, the Warcraft 3 mod that birthed the entire genre, HotS was released in 2015 to a largely positive reception from critics and players. But despite the game’s quality, and years […]
Read MoreLive service gaming’s best new trend is actually an old one: letting players decide how to have fun
Do you ever miss when multiplayer games had lots of stuff to do? I was pretty young in the 2000s, but I remember what it was like to fire up an FPS and not be absolutely certain which flavor of shooter I was gonna play. One of a handful of developer-made modes or dozen-plus maps, […]
Read MoreValve lures thousands of Dota cheaters into bans with fake Christmas presents as it declares ‘this year is gonna be a bloodbath’
It’s ten days to Christmas, and you know what that means: It’s time for the world’s most famous jolly, bearded man to draw up naughty and nice lists, handing out rewards to the latter and pitiless justice to the former. That’s right, Gabe Newell is sticking it to Dota 2 cheats once again. Well, Valve […]
Read MoreAfter eight years in charge, League of Legends executive producer Jeremy ‘Brightmoon’ Lee has stepped down to do ‘other stuff at Riot’
After more than eight years at the helm of League of Legends, executive producer Jeremy “Brightmoon” Lee announced today that he’s decided to step down. “This year’s been a bit of a whirlwind,” Lee said in today’s dev update video. “The progress we’ve made as a team and, most importantly, what we’ve been able to […]
Read MoreLeague of Legends executive producer Jeremy ‘Brightmoon’ Lee has stepped down to do ‘other stuff at Riot’
After more than eight years at the helm of League of Legends, executive producer Jeremy “Brightmoon” Lee announced today that he’s decided to step down. “This year’s been a bit of a whirlwind,” Lee said in today’s dev update video. “The progress we’ve made as a team and, most importantly, what we’ve been able to […]
Read MoreLeague of Legends world champ gets his very own skin as a reward—but can’t choose his favourite champion because he didn’t get a chance to play her: ‘they said they can make Bard pretty too’
League of Legends Worlds is a prestigious yearly tournament that wrapped up its 2023 run recently. The victors, T1 from Korea, took home $445,000 along with the gold. In a sad twist of fate—one that belongs in some Greek tragedy—a member of the winning team still didn’t get what he wanted. See, Worlds winners get […]
Read MoreLeague of Legends’ most iconic map is getting a huge makeover, ridable monsters, and an infestation of gross alien insects
Summoner’s Rift, the core map in League of Legends, is one of the most iconic maps in all of gaming, existing in largely the same form for years. But nothing stays the same forever, and Riot has decided that for Season 14, it deserves a major shake-up. Both the core terrain and layout of the […]
Read MoreNew League of Legends champion Hwei is suspiciously similar to one of Dota 2’s hardest-to-use heroes
League of Legends’ new champion Hwei is a human mage designed to be played in the mid-lane, and he has 10 different spells that take more than one button press to cast. If you happen to be a Dota 2 fan that might sound a little familiar, as Invoker—a wizard dating all the way back […]
Read MoreHeroes of the Storm fans are excited: More than a year after Blizzard ended development, a new patch has appeared on the PTR
More than a year after Blizzard did an Old Yeller to Heroes of the Storm—”the only good MOBA” in the eyes of our weekend editor Jody Macgregor—a new patch has appeared on the public test realm, and it’s got some fans hopeful for more to come. The patch is a beefy one, but entirely a […]
Read MoreArcane is officially canon, and from now on League of Legends lore is going to stop contradicting itself all over the place, say Riot
Riot’s approach to League of Legends lore has always been a bit… flexible. Champion backstories have been repeatedly retconned, and the entire premise of the game has changed a couple of times since launch (remember when it was a literal sport?). More recently, as the Runeterra universe has expanded with books, spin-off games, and the […]
Read MoreArcane is officially canon, and from now on League of Legends lore is going to stop contradicting itself all over the place, says Riot
Riot’s approach to League of Legends lore has always been a bit… flexible. Champion backstories have been repeatedly retconned, and the entire premise of the game has changed a couple of times since launch (remember when it was a literal sport?). More recently, as the Runeterra universe has expanded with books, spin-off games, and the […]
Read MoreLeague of Legends has a boy band now, ‘a group of dynamic daredevils dedicated to unapologetic individuality and creative expression’
Here’s the full-resolution Heartsteel poster, so you can print it out and put it up on your wall. (Image credit: Riot Games) Five years after turning four of its characters into a pretend K-Pop group, League of Legends has a boy band now. The six-man group is called Heartsteel, and it features “re-imagined” versions of […]
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