Although battle royale games have taken the world by storm the last few years, MOBAs are still holding their own on the market. League of Legends and DOTA2 continue to be among the most popular and classic MOBA titles available, with Heroes of the Storm as a solid third conten

Cosplayer Danielle Denicola crafted her own massive Darkin Scythe. She completed Kayn’s full arm armor and even included the glowing armored eyepatch. This gender bend is one for the books and just goes to show the immeasurable talent within the League of Legends cosplay commun

The heroes are also a bit more unique due to being predecessors to most MOBA archetypes, with incredibly unique abilities and spells. What makes things even better is that DOTA2 just looks good for a game that's entirely free, and that's a rarity these d

It took years for any manner of reconciliation to occur. Even then, it was purely done for business reasons, resulting in all teams playing in the Proleague as the main space for competition. This merging into one space over-saturating the player market: since there were many more teams vying for the top spots and sponsorship, large numbers of popular players retired and many fans lost interest as their favorites left the sc

While in League the simple objective is to push to the enemy Nexus and destroy it, DOTA2 is much more strategic and cerebral in the sense that it has tons of micro-mechanisms that count towards you winning the ro

Many consider Blizzard’s Star Craft: Brood War to be the foundation of all esports. By 2006, the game was established as a mainstream juggernaut icon in Korea and the global community. It was the first game to bring in big-name sponsors and had fans watching all over the world. At the height of its popularity, the video below gives a picture of the scope of popularity and production value that went into the ga

Blizzard Entertainment, once the birthplace of the modern MOBA thanks to Aeon of Strife and Defense of the Ancients , tried their hand at creating a MOBA with Heroes of the Storm . Released in June of 2015 at the very height of MOBA popularity, HotS struggled to gain the same kind of following as its larger brethren. Although innovative and containing many changes to the core gameplay that made it both easier to learn and more "fun", HotS was plagued with poor monetization as well as technical and hero balance issues. Blizzard finally admitted defeat in December of 2018 by moving developers to other projects and canceling the game’s official tourname

Heroes of the Storm is not only a recent example of Blizzard failing to make a go of their MOBA - they also did so in what's considered the most disrespectful of ways to its community, its competitive player base, and everyone else invol

However, they seem to be content to sit in the pit they've dug for themselves. The Blizzard of today seeks to execute an entirely different vision than the Blizzard of twenty, and even ten years ago. Past performance is often a strong indicator of future action, and if in the future Blizzard were to gut Hearthstone's esports and development team to reinvest into Call of Duty and Candy Crush , there would be no reason to be surpri

Grinding your way to the top of the leaderboard will be no small feat in Season 2, and Ranked League has a somewhat unusual system for gaining ranked points, or RP, compared to other shooters. Here is everything you need to know about Ranked Leagues in Season 2 of Apex Legen

Learning the fundamentals is simple, especially if one has already played other multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games. Beyond the fundamentals, however, the skill ceiling is high and experienced opponents will severely punish small mistakes at high ranks of play. Here is with our guide on everything you need to know to start playing Dota 2 history 2 as a complete new

Which is kinda what happened to MOBAs. A few years ago, it seemed like Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas were taking over the world, with a new MOBA being announced almost every month. Now, most of those games have failed and only a few MOBAs live on to fulfill that ni

As much as Blizzard tries to cover their own hindquarters, players and fans alike do not forget when a company mistreats and lies to them. When Blizzard tries to pump up interest in its esports for any of its other franchises, it is hard to put any faith in them at all as a fan, a potential competitor, or as someone interested in the production side of things. Were they to try and fix the state of things - both with esports and their franchises in general - their efforts would most likely be taken as the same empty, shallow promises they've made over and over ag

As with LoL , Dota2 also got into eSports in a big way. The International, Dota2 's annual global tournament, began with a prize pool of just $1.6 million. By 2019, The International’s prize pool had grown to over $31 million--the largest offering of any esports tournament in hist