MOBA

I’ve always considered myself to be a fairly well-balanced gamer, playing everything from MMORPG Everquest to the farming simulator Harvest Moon. However, there was one corner of the gaming world I had never touched: the ever-growing universe of the MOBA genre. MOBAs (multiplayer online battle arenas) are a relatively new genre, but it’s hard to …

From its humble beginnings as fan made mod for Warcraft 3, the genre of games now known as “MOBA” (short for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) has taken the industry by storm. The original fan creation, titled Defense of the Ancients (or DotA), pits two teams of five players against each other, each team spawning on …