If you are into interesting statistics then here is one for you. Video games Super Bowl ads generally make an appearance every year and this one was no except. In terms of numbers though, this year was a little different. PC/console games had a total of zero ads during this Super Bowl. Mobile games, however, has a total of three ads and you can probably guess at least one of the games that had an ad since it normally has TV ads as well.
Tag: MOBA
Wargaming.net has pushed out a new update for their World of Tankz Blitz game that features a whole new line of British Tanks that have been added to the game. This will show up as a new branch within the British Tank tree and features new heavy tanks for you to eventually unlock and play with. This update is considered the first major release for World of Tank Blitz since the initial launch of the game.
Gameloft’s Heroes of Order & Chaos MOBA will soon be getting an update which will make the game more of a serious MOBA title by adding some new features to the game. One of the big features that will be coming with this update is a Ban & Pick phase which is what you see in titles such as League of Legends when playing competitively.
[Updated] The popular RPG series The Witcher is coming to mobile later this year as The Witcher: Battle Arena
If you are not familiar with the series (then you obviously have never met my brother..) it is a hack and slash style RPG based on the novels of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The mobile adaption takes the role playing game- something difficult to perfect on a mobile device, and turns it into a MOBA- a more sympathetic genre for tablets and phones.
COFA Gamers are developing a MOBA called Awakening of Heroes and in such a competitive genre they are taking measures to ensure they stand out from the crowd.
Right now we are currently waiting on a couple of MOBA games to get released and today Gameforge announced a new MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game that will be heading to tablets in the near future called Sigils: Battle for Raios. So what can we expect from this MOBA when it lands?
Back in June of this year we mentioned that a rather good looking tactical MOBA game called Arena of Heroes would be making its way to a variety of platforms including Android and Ouya. We the Ouya version of the game is now live and available for download for anyone who owns one of the Android-powered game consoles. To celebrate the launch of the game on Ouya, the developers are also giving away an Ouya as well as a bunch of secondary prizes as well.
The world of MOBA games looks to continue its advancement into the mobile gaming scene as a new title is currently under development called Fates Forever. Currently we have a couple of titles in this genre already available to us. One is from Gameloft called Heroes of Order and Chaos while another is a bit different of a style of MOBA gaming called Champs: Battlegrounds.
We’ve always though that more major PC-based MMO games should be on mobile natively instead of having to DIY project things up a bit and streaming them to our tablets. While this isn’t about one of those games coming to mobile, this news does indicate a step in the right direction. It seems Riot Games is looking for Android and iOS developers with two new postings in their Careers section of their website.
The first real mobile-based MOBA game will be receiving a pretty big content update soon. Gameloft’s Heroes of Order & Chaos upcoming content update will bring with it a new 5v5 map, new heroes, new tournaments, a new matchmaking system and some adjustments to other aspects of the game.