As a reminder, most MOBAs tend to release characters in rapid succession, especially when the game is in its infancy, but teams also eye old decaying choices that fall victim to power creep in the form of "reworks." Blizzard has been steppi...

Riot might have cemented 5v5 as their bread and butter format for League of Legends, but they're not afraid to experiment with various PVP and PVE modes. Some pass the smell test (ARAM), and some don't (RIP Dominion). Either way every so of...

Bless Blizzard for they had sinned: it had been one year and three months since the launch of the last evil Diablo character in Heroes of the Storm.  That is until Mephisto, Lord of Hatred, entered the fray this week. Having taken him ...

Every year, despite barely playing Dota 2 at all anymore, I look forward to The International (TI). It's the game's premier event and the biggest in all of eSports. Millions of dollars are on the line each year, while the production va...

In a surprise announcement, two new Heroes were just announced at The International for Dota 2. The first Hero teased was Mars, which just had a quick still shot and a winter release date. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, they announced ...

Platform holders have a history of excluding certain games, including free-to-play titles (which may or may not have optional subscriptions or microtransactions), from the scope of their subscription-based services. In other words you can d...

Surprise! Blizzard is kicking off Gamescom with a bang with Mephisto's entrance into Heroes of the Storm, their "Blizzard All-Star" MOBA. As long of the most-requested heroes to date he's a huge breath of fresh air, especially since Diablo&...

I've been waiting for a priest, specifically of the shadow variety, since Heroes of the Storm was first announced. While Anduin, poised to reclaim the glory of the alliance in the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, seemed like the m...

Riot has always experimented with various gametypes in League of Legends, trying to find that sweet spot where folks will want to take a break from the core 5v5 experience while retaining a healthy queue time. ARAM (all-random all-middle) m...

Blizzard has been doing a bang-up job with both Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch. What would normally be an innocuous cosmetic drop has now become a series of events, and most recently the former is elaborating on its GI Joe vs. Cobra-esqu...

[Update: You can find her spotlight below as well as this landing page detailing her basic abilities and heroics.] It's been a long, long time since the last Heroes of the Storm character. The development team has noted many times (includin...

There's no new character this week, but the latest Heroes of the Storm patch is one of the biggest updates of the year.  The main event is definitely the Mad Max-ian "Raiders of Warchrome" celebration, which brings new wasteland skins ...

If you haven't played Heroes of the Storm, find a friend that has and have them onboard you using the free client. I've been playing it since its alpha, and I've found it to be a refreshing, sometimes flawed truncated take on the MOBA genre...

Blizzard knows how to push skin events; they have it down to a science at this point. This latest one is worth taking a peek at too, as Blizzard is bringing the Mad Max flair into "Raiders of Warchrome." In addition to the existing Gar...

Although Blizzard has been undeniably changed by its association with Activision, there are glimmers of the old wild west community-centric company that frequently pop up. The Heroes of the Storm team (like Overwatch) has notably ackno...

(Update: And they're gone!) A closed beta for what could be the next big game on Switch is happening right now and we have some codes that will get you in on the action. Arena of Valor, the biggest mobile game in the world, is coming to Swi...

Arena of Valor probably isn't the first game you think of when asked to name a MOBA. It only launched in North America back in December and most attention we've paid to it has been with its addition of characters from the DC Universe t...

Raynor strutted his stuff right away in the alpha of Heroes of the Storm, but was completely left in the dust due to power creep over time. Although he saw a small resurgence due to a glitch that took Blizzard several weeks to fix (his ...

Blizzard is smartly diving into what makes the Heroes of the Storm universe tick -- or specifically, what differentiates it from the rest of the Blizzard universe. It might be an "all-stars" rendition of Blizzard's properties, a greatest hi...

The mega-popular mobile MOBA Arena of Valor is inching closer to a Nintendo Switch release and if you missed signing up for the closed beta, there's still time to do so. Tencent has locked in dates for the first North American beta -- it'll...

Heroes of the Storm doesn't have the numbers that other MOBAs do streaming-wise, but this past week proves that it absolutely deserves to hang. Culminating in a nail-biting Finals series between the Korean team Gen G. and the European Team ...

Back in July of 2016, a fan created an incredible concept for a skin in Heroes of the Storm -- Janitor Leoric. Based on the Diablo villain's moveset from the game, and subbing in mop for a mace and a bathroom for a makeshift crypt...

Although I'm a horde member at heart (my first World of Warcraft character was an Orc Warlock during the beta, and my first 1.0 and subsequent main until Burning Crusade was an Orc Shaman), I gravitated toward the Alliance at the behest of ...

Remember clicking on Starcraft and Warcraft RTS units over and over to get them to say funny things? Blizzard never really stopped doing that. Heroes of the Storm just introduced its Warcraft event this week (which ...

For the past several years fans have been clamoring for a Draenei character in Heroes of the Storm. To date it's one of the only major races from any of the represented games that hasn't been part of the Nexus universe -- that's finall...