With Vainglory having been out now for a few weeks, we swung by the Twitch booth to meet up with Super Evil Megacorp, the developers behind the mobile MOBA game Vainglory.
Not exact matches
The eSports market is continuing to open up to a broader audience
with companies such as Super Evil Megacorp and Blizzard Entertainment who have introduced eSports to mobile gamers through
Vainglory and Hearthstone.
Super Evil Megacorp COO and executive director Kristian Segerstrale says livestreaming has exploded for
Vainglory,
with over one million unique viewers tuning in to matches in September alone.
Like many games it and
Vainglory are rather demanding games, both of them suiting themselves
with heavy particle effects, and even animations.
With that ontop of it they packed the LTE or Wi - Fi versions both with 3 GB's of RAM, which is perfect to get the job done and this was perfectly exhibited while playing both This War of Mine and Vainglory as load times were quick, frames remained smooth, and both games acted just fine throughout my time with them to d
With that ontop of it they packed the LTE or Wi - Fi versions both
with 3 GB's of RAM, which is perfect to get the job done and this was perfectly exhibited while playing both This War of Mine and Vainglory as load times were quick, frames remained smooth, and both games acted just fine throughout my time with them to d
with 3 GB's of RAM, which is perfect to get the job done and this was perfectly exhibited while playing both This War of Mine and
Vainglory as load times were quick, frames remained smooth, and both games acted just fine throughout my time
with them to d
with them to date.
Mobile eSports is starting to grow in size,
with games like
Vainglory already hosting professional teams and tournaments already.
In the veins of games such as Dota 2 and League of Legends,
Vainglory is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game in which players guide characters
with real - time strategy mechanics and a progression system.
Super Evil Megacorp's mobile MOBA,
Vainglory [Free], has launched its latest update and
with it comes some significant quality of life upgrades.
With premiere organizations, such as Cloud9 and TSM, starting to take notice, it'll be interesting to see how far
Vainglory can go.
Today, Super Mega Evilcorp has announced that it has partnered
with Collegiate StarLeague (CSL) to begin a new
Vainglory Collegiate League.
Vainglory's first new game mode since the title officially launched in July 2015, dubbed Battle Royale, is now live
with update 1.17.
The popular mobile MOBA game
Vainglory got updated today to version 1.21 and
with this update comes the debut of a new hero for players to use, new skins for a few heroes, as well as an additional set of quests that are divided up into four different types: Daily, Hero, Sequences and Community.
The biggest tournament is the
Vainglory one,
with 6 teams from North America, the EU, and Korea battling it out for $ 50,000 in prize money.
When I've discussed the game
with others, there's usually a sentiment along the lines of «
Vainglory is fun but it doesn't feel like Dota or League of Legends.»
Along
with widening the game's reach, Super Evil Megagcorp's latest updates to
Vainglory will also improve the mobile title's experience.
«
Vainglory hits the highest highs of a great MOBA, but only when playing locally
with friends against a team that's doing the same.»
«
With the 1.6 update we are finally launching
Vainglory commercially, including support for more than 150 Android devices.
Since the release of
Vainglory onto Android, the game sees around 1 million players on average playing this game,
with 10 % of those players also watching professional eSport
Vainglory matches on Twitch.
From the sounds of things, the eSports scene for
Vainglory is starting to pick up,
with one team earlier this week becoming the first sponsored
Vainglory team.
We sat down to talk
with them to see how the game has been doing since its launch onto Android, and what future plans they may have for
Vainglory in general.
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An example given is
Vainglory,
with developer Super Evil MegaCorp partnering
with Samsung to optimize the game for DeX and offer a desktop - level gaming experience when docked rather than the mobile gaming experience currently on offer.
Vainglory is an intense multiplayer online battle - arena game (think League of Legends, but bite size) that floods the screen
with colorful characters at any given moment.