Vainglory leaves beta with 1.5M monthly active players — a rarity for a mobile MOBA

One of the biggest bets in mobile gaming is out of beta — and it’s bringing an already strong player base with it to launch.

Super Evil Megacorp announced today that is Vainglory mobile multiplayer online battle arena game has been formally launched, and it already has 1.5 million monthly active users from its extensive beta-testing period. Vainglory is a multiplayer online battle arena game like League of Legends and Dota 2 on PC. But Vainglory was designed from the start for mobile. It’s on iOS and Android.

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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.