Omeda Studios is bringing Paragon back to life as Predecessor.
Omeda Studios is bringing Paragon back to life as Predecessor.
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Omeda raises $2.2M to relaunch Epic’s dead Paragon as Predecessor

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Omeda Studios has raised $2.2 million to create a cross-platform third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game called Predecessor. The game is based on the assets of Epic Games’ Paragon MOBA title.

Paragon was Epic’s attempt to join the MOBA market that Riot Games’ League of Legends help create. But it never succeeded in pulling players from that game, and the enormous success of Epic’s Fortnite’s battle royale mode overshadowed Paragon. Epic canceled it in January 2018.

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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.