Switch gets Tencent’s Arena of Valor mobile MOBA

Chinese gaming giant Tencent is making Nintendo games now. Switch is getting Arena of Valor, which is Tencent’s multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) for mobile devices. It is a 5-on-5 action strategy battler that will launch into beta on Switch this holiday.

Arena of Valor is a traditional MOBA with three lanes, creeps, and characters based on the heroes from the original Defense of the Ancients (which itself was a mod for Warcraft 3). The game already has more than 1 million downloads on Google Play and iOS, but it could reach an entirely new audience on Switch.