The auto-battler spin-off of the wildly successful MOBA will start its first 1.0 season on February 25th.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that the two most pervasive new genres in video games are the Battle Royale – which birthed games like Fortnite Battle Royale and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds; and 2019’s popular Auto Chess, the mod of a mod that’s given rise to games like Dota Underlords, Teamfight Tactics and Hearthstone: Battlegrounds. Here's a game that's both.

While everyone began hedging their bets on the auto-battler genre in 2019, it seems that maybe the whole thing was just a flash in the pan.

Dota Auto Chess has grown widely in popularity over the past six months, and Valve has clearly taken note of Drodo Studio’s original creation Valve’s behemoth of an esports title, Dota 2, while still being a juggernaut on the Steam sales charts has recently been seeing competition from a challenger that not many could have predicted. A custom map made …