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Although it’s far more common to see PC games ported to mobile (Hearthstone, The Talos Principle, This War of Mine), that formula is occasionally reversed. Super Evil Megacorp’s Vainglory is a case in point — the high fantasy MOBA is coming to both Mac and PC. On PC, Dota 2 and League of Legends have […]
Enlarge (credit: Charlie Theel) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com—and let us know what you think. Rum and Bones: Second Tide is a board game that combines pirates with ideas drawn from Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas (MOBAs). The concept alone is worth […]
Riley “DNZio” Haghian hopes to make a living playing Vainglory. He brought home more than $ 20,000 in a recent world championship tournament, and he is ranked No. 1 in North America. And he is only 14. Haghian’s budding career in mobile esports is the tip of the spear for the hopes around Vainglory, a multiplayer […]
With World AIDS Day coming up on December 1st, Twitch is partnering up with (Coca Cola)RED for one week to help fight the disease in sub-Saharan Africa. On December 2nd, you can stream Twitch’s Arena of Valor channel and watch eight popular streamers face off playing the mobile MOBA designed by Tencent Games. There will […]
Heroes of the Storm had a big 2017 thanks to a significant 2.0 update that gave players a more rewarding loot system. But a MOBA like Heroes must embrace continual evolution if it wants to stay relevant in a market with heavyweights such as Riot’s League of Legends and Valve’s Dota 2. At this month’s BlizzCon, Blizzard […]
Chinese gaming giant Tencent is making Nintendo games now. Switch is getting Arena of Valor, which is Tencent’s multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) for mobile devices. It is a 5-on-5 action strategy battler that will launch into beta on Switch this holiday. Arena of Valor is a traditional MOBA with three lanes, creeps, and characters […]
