SunSpear Games is creating Immortal as a hybrid MOBA/RTS.
SunSpear Games is creating Immortal as a hybrid MOBA/RTS.
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SunSpear Games blends MOBA and real-time strategy in Immortal

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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SunSpear Games is out to prove that real-time strategy can have mass appeal. And so it is creating Immortal: Gates of Pyre, an upcoming PC game that blends RTS and the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre that League of Legends and others have made popular.

Immortal is a free-to-play game based on an original sci-fi universe. It’s from a team of PC gaming fans who would like to revive the RTS genre that was once so prevalent on the platform. The team says the game comes from a strong sense of dissatisfaction with the status quo, where 10-year-old games like League of Legends can totally dominate the PC gaming market. [Update: 4:05 p.m. 3/15/21: The company hit its Kickstarter campaign target in a day].

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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.