With Heroes of the Storm officially entering the MOBA market earlier this year, the field seems to be getting more and more crowded. Despite no new game managing to take significant share from League of Legends, more and more game companies are throwing their hat into the ring. Below are a list of upcoming MOBAs which have already been announced [...]

The MOBA market has been growing rapidly over the years largely thanks to the success of League of Legends. Several new MOBAs have been announced including Warhammer 40K: Dark Nexus Arena and Gigantic, but is there really room in the market for new MOBAs? I don't think so. Take a look at two recently launched MOBAs – Infinite Crisis from [...]

E3 2015 has come and gone. Ive never been one to pay much attention to the annual conference since most of the attention seems to be centered around games for the current console generation. But after skimming through some of the trailers that were revealed, something struck me. Quite a few of the interesting PC titles announced this year were [...]

Why do we have to pay to beta / alpha test games now? It's especially ridiculous in the free to play genre where testing a game like SkyForge or Albion Online costs money, but when they launch they'll be free to play. Games like Albion Online are actually spending money running marketing campaigns to sell founders packs, which include alpha [...]

Despite the slew of new MMO launches over the years, it seems like a lot of older MMORPGs are still dominating the scene. Plenty of newer MMORPGs launched in the last few years, like Archlord 2 and Continent of the Ninth Seal, but they don't have nearly the playerbase as some older games. A Game like MapleStory from Nexon for [...]

Cabal 2 officially started its open beta test on July 2, 2015 while Echo of Soul launched on June 22, 2015. Exciting right? Sorta. The thing is, these games aren't exactly new. Cabal 2 for example entered open beta in South Korea on November 14, 2012. That's almost a 3 year gap! Echo of Soul is a bit better in [...]

Survival games aren't going anywhere. In fact, they seem to be increasing in number, with new survival games claiming the ultimate experience every day on Steam. But before you drop more cash on another early access game, there are some fantastic, and immersive games already available. Some of which are single-player and others are MMO's. They run the gamut of [...]

I've long been a believer in the free to play model for online games and it's been great to see games like Star Wars: The Old Republic and Tera embrace the model with enormous success. These games are making much more money as free to play games than they ever did as subscription based games. Star Wars: the Old Republic for example [...]

Free to play is currently the dominant business model in the world of MMOs with Subscription being the second biggest and buy to play being the smallest. Guild Wars popularized the buy to play model for MMOs, and despite it's benefits, it has quite a few problems. The Elder Scrolls Online - Another buy to Play MMORPG Since NCSoft's ArenaNet revealed [...]

eSports have grown tremendously over the years, largely due to the immense popularity of MOBAs. The Dota 2 international finals aired on ESPN3 in 2014 and earlier in 2015, I remember seeing a collegiate game of Heroes of the Storm on live cable TV on ESPN2. Competitive gaming isn't anything new though. Local game stores have long held tournaments for various [...]