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Dead Island: Epidemic – Open Beta (Steam)

July 25, 2015December 6, 2014 by Calum Fraser

Dead Island: Epidemic is a fun multiplayer hack and slash arena bawler with tons of zombies and lots of comically excessive brutality. At it’s core is a MOBA, but don’t expect the sombre, structured gameplay of DOTA, Dead Island: Epidemic is is more about chaotic multiplayer hack and slash action than strategic combat.

Dead Island: Epidemic features two core modes – allowing you to … Read More

Heroes Of The Storm – Technical Alpha Sign-Up

June 18, 2016October 18, 2014 by Calum Fraser

Blizzard have announced more Alpha Sign-Ups for Heroes Of The Storm, their impressive new MOBA that allows you to play as characters from all your favourite Blizzard games, from Diablo to StarCraft.

The game has a host of exciting features, such as different Battlegrounds affecting the gameplay, mercenary camps, Towns, some campaign style map modes, lots of customisation options and mounts. They’re also … Read More

Shards Of War – Beta Sign Up

July 25, 2015October 14, 2014 by Calum Fraser

Shards of War is an intense, fast-paced combat MOBA with WASD controls for tight manoeuvrability, shiny visuals and a cool dystopian Sci-fi setting.

As with most MOBAs, the rules are simple: Two teams of five players attempting to destroy the enemy base, fighting enemy drones, turrets and warriors over short 20 minute rounds. The big difference here is the WASD control scheme, which allows for … Read More

Chaos Heroes Online – Open Beta

June 18, 2016October 3, 2014 by Calum Fraser

Chaos Heroes Online is now in Open Beta – a snazzy looking new MOBA based on a variant of the original DOTA mod for Warcraft III.

There are a lot of MOBA’s on the market nowadays, but Chaos Heroes Online does seem to do enough to differentiate itself from the crowd. It comes with a nice selection of heroes, some rather flamboyant special moves, tactical … Read More

Strife – Open Beta

September 7, 2018August 30, 2014 by Calum Fraser

Strife is now in Open Beta! Strife is an interesting MOBA with lots of character, that aims to reduce player toxicity to newcomers, making it a game anyone can play, not just the MOBA elite.

Strife is created by S2 games, creators of the very popular ‘Heroes of Newerth’, aimed at people who are new to MOBAs or are put off by the negative behavior … Read More