Bizzard’s MOBA started life as Blizzard DOTA. However, after legal battles with Valve, they changed it to Blizzard All-Stars. Well, now it’s pulling another Madonna – time to reinvent the Blizzard MOBA.
Blizzard has taken a pretty cute approach, releasing this animated short that doesn’t shy away from the fact that this game has been through a few iterations:
The MOBA is now called Heroes of the Storm and they’ve got their website, Facebook and twitter up and running – however, at this point, all they do is promote the new name. Heroes of the Storm will allow gamers to play as heroes and villains from the Diablo, StarCraft and Warcraft universes.
I’m curious how Blizzard’s MOBA will compare to the glut of MOBA games already out there. What can they bring to the genre that is new or innovative – Infinite Crisis already has the appealing character draw, so what will Blizzard bring to the party, and especially eSports? Do you think they will ride their brand name, hoping people buy it just because it’s from Blizzard? Or will we see something that redefines the future of MOBAs?
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Last Updated: October 18, 2013
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SaintsRowNigri
October 18, 2013 at 09:23
Blizzard HOTS???
Hammersteyn
October 18, 2013 at 09:27
At least it sounds better than LOL
Ultimo_Cleric N7
October 18, 2013 at 09:31
Amen to that
RapturedMossel
October 18, 2013 at 10:34
Next one will be Haven of the Snakes
John's digital rights
October 18, 2013 at 10:39
HOS bra (don’t they usually leave “the” out of the abbreviations?)
RapturedMossel
October 18, 2013 at 10:41
LOL, but they usually leave “of” out as well.
John's digital rights
October 18, 2013 at 11:39
Dammit
Weerwolf
October 18, 2013 at 10:02
Isn’t HOTS the abbreviation for Heart of the Swarm though?
Hammersteyn
October 18, 2013 at 10:27
It’s Heroes of the storm in this case.
nancylucas87
October 22, 2013 at 08:55
If you understand what you’re doing, you’re are intelligent.
Then don’t waste time and move to… bay35.com
Alien Emperor Trevor
October 18, 2013 at 09:26
Blizzard, MOBA, Online. Care = zero.
If they don’t have anything radically different to offer from DOTA, LoL, etc – then they better hope people buy it because of their name. Although, I’m fairly sure PC gamers remember Error 37…
Gerhard Davids
October 18, 2013 at 09:28
From the looks of that it might be a tri-line moba like of the AOS games on W3.
RapturedMossel
October 18, 2013 at 09:30
Agreed. Here’s my cup of care: |_| oh look! its empty.
John's digital rights
October 18, 2013 at 09:33
O_o
TiMsTeR1033
October 18, 2013 at 09:58
I put it blunt, I don’t give a shit about this news! hahaha
RapturedMossel
October 18, 2013 at 10:15
LOL yeah I was never a fan of Mobas. Also why would I pay for this, DOTA 2 is free!
John's digital rights
October 18, 2013 at 09:33
I don’t like that number.
TiMsTeR1033
October 18, 2013 at 09:59
I like Coke Zero..
John's digital rights
October 18, 2013 at 09:59
Fascinating.
TiMsTeR1033
October 18, 2013 at 10:00
with brandy
John's digital rights
October 18, 2013 at 10:01
There it is.
Gavin Mannion
October 18, 2013 at 09:33
Heroes of the Storm… I wonder if it was named by the same guy who came up with Heart of the Swarm
John's digital rights
October 18, 2013 at 09:35
The next one will probably be Wings of Chivalry.
TiMsTeR1033
October 18, 2013 at 09:57
They not exactly creative with the names are they…
John's digital rights
October 18, 2013 at 10:02
Not entirely no.
Otto_ki
October 18, 2013 at 09:36
MOBA games are great for eSports…playing them yourself is mentally abusing and stressful.
TiMsTeR1033
October 18, 2013 at 10:05
IN OTHER NEWS: WINE FOR CATS!
You think I am joking, but sadly I’m not.
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
October 18, 2013 at 10:08
What’s this the 5th name change? Blizzard is worse than the “Artist formerly known as Symbol formerly known as Prince… formerly known as Not Michael Jackson”.
John's digital rights
October 18, 2013 at 10:24
Haha. Yes. You kind of grow up knowing Prince as guy who is not Michael Jackson.
GooseZA
October 18, 2013 at 13:11
Between this and Hearthstone, my life is over. I’ve been WoW clean for a year now. This… this will destroy me.
Just hearing the Stormwind music…
*sniff