Mobile MOBA Vainglory gets a date for its official release

Look out, League of Legends and Dota 2. Well, maybe we shouldn’t go that far. Still, a MOBA milestone might be incoming.

Vainglory, a mobile take on the multiplayer online battle arena genre, is getting an official release on July 2. It’ll be on the Apple App and Google Play store. A beta version of the game has been available since last November.

MOBAs are a big craze these days, with League of Legends and Dota 2 making hundreds of million dollars annually. However, they are both PC games, and the genre has yet to have a true hit on mobile, a market that could be worth $30 billion this year, according to research firm Newzoo. Vainglory could take advantage of both booming markets.

Vainglory is developed by Super Evil Megacorp, a company with employees that have previous experience at notable developers like Blizzard, Riot Games, and Rockstar.

Mike Minotti

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