The MOBA Craze Continues With The Witcher: Battle Arena

<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Polish developer CD Projekt is the latest studio to jump on the MOBA bandwagon&period; Already hard at work on The Witcher 3&comma; they have teamed up with Fuero Games to create a free to play title called The Witcher&colon; Battle Arena for mobiles&period; The studio sees this game as an important step in growing the Witcher franchise&period; In an interview with Eurogamer&comma; project manager Tadek Zielinski explained that&comma; &&num;8221&semi;The Witcher universe is vast&period; You are familiar with the term expanded universe&period; We have comic books&comma; our board game&comma; so this is another step in that direction&period; We actually want to grow and this is one of the ways we want to do it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;63160" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-63160" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignleft"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;05092632&sol;battle-arena-concept-art&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-63160 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;05092632&sol;battle-arena-concept-art&period;jpg" alt&equals;"battle arena concept art" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"168" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-63160" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">The Witcher&colon; Battle Arena will have 8 characters at launch including the sorceress Philippa Eilhart and Letho of Gulet&comma; the Kingslayer&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"> Whilst the PC is suffering from an overload of companies trying to recreate the success of League of Legends&comma; CD Projekt Red noticed that there was a gap in the market on iOS and Android&period; &&num;8220&semi;I dare you to name three MOBA games on mobile devices&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Zielinsk&comma; &&num;8221&semi; I think it would be hard for you to do it&&num;8221&semi;&period; The team has been very focused on making sure that Battle Arena is a good fit for it&&num;8217&semi;s platform&period; They have streamlined MOBA gameplay to suit tablets and phones by removing mobs and using simple touch screen controls&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">In the interview&comma; Zielinski was keen to stress that Battle Arena will not be pay to win&period;&&num;8221&semi;It will be a free game&period; A genuinely free game&period; You know we are fair with gamers&period; We are known for giving away stuff for free&period; We believe free is fair&period; So we wanted to realise our philosophy also with the MOBA game&period; If you don&&num;8217&semi;t want to farm for your hero you can buy him&period; And also there are vanity items you pay for&period; Every price you see in the game will be a fair price given in a normal currency&comma; but there will be absolutely no pay to win elements in our game&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">The Witcher&colon; Battle Arena will out in Q4 2014 for iOS&comma; Android and Windows tablet and smartphone devices&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2014-07-01-the-witcher-battle-arena-is-a-f2p-moba-for-mobile">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;