Battleborn, the game that thought it could take on Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch and id Software's 2016 Doom incarnation, has finally bit the dust. In a Twitter thread, the official Twitter…
November 25, 2019 | 03:53 EST
League of Legends auto-battler Teamfight Tactics has received a pretty hefty new patch. Titled "Rise of the Elements", the new patch adds extra champions, classes, origins, and plenty more to …
November 7, 2019 | 02:30 EST
Following the debut of last year's virtual band K/DA, Riot announced today another musical sensation poised to sweep the globe: True Damage. True Damage's members, comprised of League of Legends…
October 30, 2019 | 12:50 EDT
A pair of League of Legends non-game media has been revealed by Riot, with an animated series and documentary both in the works. To start with, the animated series is called Arcane, and…
October 15, 2019 | 11:23 EDT
In a recent post from League of Legends developer Riot Games, the company addressed the lawsuits looming over its head. Riot has been quiet regarding the legal action since responding to a walkout…
August 22, 2019 | 10:59 EDT
Today in a developer news update about the state of game modes in League of Legends, Riot Games officially confirmed Teamfight Tactics will be the games newest permanent game mode. Coming as a…
July 31, 2019 | 10:20 EDT
Recently, Riot Games posted a development blog where they dove into changes that they will be making internally regarding their overarching philosophy on champion balance in League of Legends. The…
June 1, 2019 | 09:00 EDT
According to a report from Reuters, Tencent has abandoned Arena of Valor after a rift with Riot Games. The mobile MOBA is the Westernized version of Tencent's flagship title Honor of Kings, highly…
May 28, 2019 | 10:20 EDT
League of Legends is apparently going mobile soon. According to the international news site Reuters, three anonymous sources have disclosed that both Riot Games and their owners Tencent are planning…
May 24, 2019 | 09:30 EDT
Following the League of Legends All-Star tradition of an NA vs EU show match comes the China vs Korea, or LPL vs LCK, show match. The rivalry between these regions is especially hot this year as…
December 10, 2018 | 04:54 EST
One of the most well-known rivalries in the eSports world is the NA vs EU rivalry in professional League of Legends. During the League of Legends All-Star event, the NA region faces off against EU…
December 7, 2018 | 02:16 EST
There is one final League of Legends event to kick off before the next season and that's the League of Legends All-Star Event. The tournament is no less official than the other Riot Games-sanctioned…
December 2, 2018 | 08:13 EST
Immensely popular mobile MOBA (MOBAle?) Arena of Valor won't just be ported to the Nintendo Switch. Instead, the game will look and feel different, with a host of graphical and balance upgrades to…
August 26, 2018 | 12:15 EDT
Epic Games has released over $12 million worth of high-quality assets from their soon-to-be-defunct title Paragon for Unreal Engine developers to work with according to a blog post on the company's…
March 20, 2018 | 10:20 EDT
Just shortly after its stateside reveal at last years Twitchcon and its almost sudden release in the west on the Apple App store and google play, the hyper-fast mobile MOBA (soon to be available on…
February 6, 2018 | 12:30 EST
Paragon, Epic Games' foray into the MOBA market, is closing down forever on April 26, 2018, according to a news post on the game's official website. First announced in late 2015, Paragon is a 5v5…
January 26, 2018 | 07:02 EST
Online competitive games have a fine line to walk between staying fresh and staying balanced - something that many of them have troubles with. In fact, if anyone were to name one of them and ask ten…
January 6, 2018 | 12:45 EST
I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a regular League Of Legends or DOTA player. It's not that I don't appreciate the simple yet deep gameplay mechanics and endless strategy that make these games a…
November 3, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Mythology themed MOBA SMITE has a new dungeon RPG recently revealed by Hi-Rez Studios. The new adventure is called The Trials of King Hercules and is a classic MMO dungeon experience. Gods and…
June 13, 2017 | 09:26 EDT
Hi-Rez Studios's free-to-play MOBA SMITE has announced a Bob Ross Bundle for the game featuring three items thematically related to the afro-clad painter of yesteryear. For those who haven't been…
May 7, 2017 | 10:30 EDT
Riot Games, the developer behind the popular eSports MOBA League of Legends, has been awarded the hefty sum of 10 million dollars after a lawsuit between Riot Games and prolific scripting and botting…
March 5, 2017 | 09:00 EST
'Tis the season to be jolly, as the song goes. What better way to feel jolly than throwing fireballs and arrows at each other in a virtual arena? According to Stunlock Studios, adding swarms of nasty…
December 13, 2016 | 05:54 EST
Battlerite, the PvP arena brawler from Stunlock Studios, just came out from a free weekend and they closed it with a blast. During the free weekend, Battlerite managed to put together some impressive…
December 6, 2016 | 04:00 EST
Battlerite development team Stunlock Studios has just announced in a press release that it will be partnering with Next Generation Esports to produce the "BattleRekt" tournament, which starts its…
November 11, 2016 | 01:36 EST
Battlerite, Stunlock Studios' second chapter in the Bloodline Champions series (currently in Early Access), is receiving a new update, tomorrow November 10th. This update will add a few interesting…
November 9, 2016 | 01:20 EST
In Maya mythology, Camazotz is the bat god of night, sacrifice, and death. He is also one of the reasons behind how vampires are depicted modern culture. The deadly god of bats is the latest addition…
October 6, 2016 | 06:09 EDT
Riot’s new game isn’t what you’d think. Speculation about the developer's next project has ranged all over the gaming genre spectrum but few anticipated what they were actually working on; a board…
September 20, 2016 | 03:32 EDT
The free open beta for Epic Games' new third-person perspective PC and PlayStation 4 multiplayer 5v5 online battle arena (MOBA) game Paragon now fully underway. Despite the game having no official…
August 24, 2016 | 10:15 EDT
Erlang Shen: The Illustrious Sage joins the SMITE roster in patch 3.12. Erlang Shen is a Chinese warrior with an interesting move set that encompasses durability with sustained damage. It also has a…
July 3, 2016 | 09:33 EDT
It's the Norse pantheon's turn to have a new god added to their roster in SMITE's latest patch. Fanir, Lord of Glittering Gold, joins the battleground of the gods with the role of guardian. This…
June 9, 2016 | 06:30 EDT
Hi-Rez has reason to celebrate today, as SMITE, their third-person action MOBA, reached the 20 million players mark. Since its release in March 2014, SMITE managed to gather quite the following, with…
June 3, 2016 | 04:04 EDT
Riot determined through two separately held investigations that the North American teams Impulse, Team Renegades and Team Dragon Knights would be banned from the League of Legends Championship Series…
May 9, 2016 | 09:13 EDT
A new fighter enters the battlefield of the gods in the latest SMITE update. After Amaterasu and Raijin, it's time for the Japanese pantheon to welcome their first hunter. Jing Wei: The Oathkeeper is…
April 13, 2016 | 05:29 EDT
Epic Games has revealed the first now character joining their upcoming MOBA Paragon. As of today players can eat souls and crush enemies with a giant hammer as Sevarog. Check out the character launch…
March 29, 2016 | 05:51 EDT
SMITE has been released for the first time on PC the 22th March of 2014. This means that next week marks the second anniversary since the start of the neverending battle of the gods. Hi-Rez decided…
March 19, 2016 | 12:53 EDT
Latest SMITE patch just arrived to PC and it's a juicy one. After kickstarting the new Japanese pantheon with the release of Raijin and Amaterasu, it's time to show some love to the other pantheons…
March 15, 2016 | 06:15 EDT
SMITE, the battleground of the gods, it's about to land for the second time on the console market with their PS4 version. The third person, action oriented, gods punching MOBA is currently in closed…
March 9, 2016 | 04:44 EST
Patch 3.3 "Victory Lap" brought to SMITE a lot of needed balances and, of course, the usual load of skins and other additions. The latest update to the battlefield of the gods, added 6 new skins for…
March 2, 2016 | 04:38 EST
MOBAs are historically PC-centric game genre. It's mainly because of the perspective most of them are played. It's hard to play an isometric game with a gamepad and TV. The situation changes when you…
February 19, 2016 | 05:11 EST
It's been a few weeks since SMITE season 3 started and, after a couple of fixes here and there, the dust is starting to settle down with the players adapting to the new additions. This means for Hi-…
February 17, 2016 | 04:13 EST
Season 3 of SMITE started only few days ago, but Hi-Rez is already shaking the things a bit. With patch 3.1, a lot of new stuff have been introduced in the game. One of the new features is that the…
February 5, 2016 | 04:19 EST
SMITE's Season 3 started the 2nd of February and it promises to be pretty interesting. Season 3 started with the release of the 3.1 patch that introduces a lot of changes in the game as players know…
February 3, 2016 | 03:02 EST
The day has finally come for SMITE to introduce a new pantheon in the game. As you will surely know by now, the Shinto pantheon will take its place in the battlefield of the gods. What better …
January 12, 2016 | 05:08 EST
Smite World Championship will have its opening day the 7th of January 2016. The tournament will take place in Atlanta and many parallel events will take place alongside it. While January is not that…
December 30, 2015 | 08:03 EST
An old Christmas song says "'Tis the season to be Jolly". If you're a SMITE player, that's gonna be all more true this week. SMITE's 7 days of Saturnalia will start this wednesday and will last for a…
December 14, 2015 | 05:35 EST
As part of TechRaptor's PAX Australia 2015 coverage, I was lucky enough to sit down and have a chat with Randall King and Max Chuvalov of Wargaming.net to talk to them about their recently released…
November 10, 2015 | 01:00 EST
A new game mode for SMITE, named "Clash", has been announced by Hi-Rez and it will be playable for a limited time on the Public Test Servers. The new map will be a middle ground between arena and…
October 30, 2015 | 06:43 EDT
Those of you that fight in the battlefield of the gods, probably managed to reap (hehe) the benefits of last week's SMITE halloween event, titled The Reaping: Part One. The name itself of the event…
October 28, 2015 | 06:01 EDT