Vainglory's upcoming 5v5 MOBA map.
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Vainglory mobile MOBA adds 5-on-5 battles

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Super Evil Megacorp announced today that its mobile game Vainglory will soon feature 5-versus-5 multiplayer battles. That will make it into a true multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA). The company has opened signups for the new “no compromises” gaming mode.

For a long time, Vainglory fans were limited to the 3-vs.-3 multiplayer was the best mode possible. That made the mobile game clearly inferior to 5-vs.-5 MOBAs on the PC, such as League of Legends, the No. 1 online strategy game in the world.

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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.