Gameloft beefs up its mobile MOBA to be more like a PC game

Gameloft is launching a major update of its Heroes of Order & Chaos mobile game so that the game is more like a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game on the PC.

Making mobile MOBAs more like PC titles like League of Legends is a holy grail ambition of mobile game makers such as Gameloft, Super Evil Megacorp, and Fates Forever. But there’s usually some kind of trade-off the mobile developers have to make in order to get their games to work well on smartphones and tablets.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.