Don’t have enough MOBAs to chose from quite yet? Well, Sneaky Games certainly hopes that’s the case. The developer announced today that Arena of Heroes, its entry to the genre has just enter its open beta testing phase.

The multiplatform game will stand out from the crowd of League of Legends, SMITE or Heroes of Newerth by pitting players in one-on-one turn-based tactical battles. If you’ve ever felt that the genre was too fast-paced and hectic, perhaps even luck based, then Arena of Heroes is right up your alley. Guardians, as the developer calls players, will control four heroes at one time as they attempt to push the lane in their favor. With two minutes allowed per turn, the games will happen quickly, but the action is paused during this time.

As with many turn-based games, players can participate in multiple games at once. Breaking the mold further, Arena of Heroes is to be made available for PC, Mac, iOS and Ouya and Android down the road. Interested? Grab the F2P client or become a Founder.

SMITE: Demigods, Deities and Gods Explained is a column dedicated to introducing prospective players of SMITE to its massive back story of lore. From the Greek to Hindu, each week we’ll look at two characters from a major pantheon and provide a quick recap of their history and in what capacity their digital incarnation will represent on the field of Hi-Rez Studios’ upcoming MOBA.

Lore: Athena, the patroness of Athens, is the goddess of wisdom and numerous other components of civilization, from mathematics to just warfare. Athena is said to have come into the world as many ways as Zeus has children. The most often cited origin is that she was the cause of an unrelenting headache for her father after her father laid with Metis. Fearing her pregnancy, Zeus consumer her, keeping her prisoner in her stomach. Later, he developed a headache so powerful he literally had his skull split open to relieve the pressure. Athena leaped free, a fully developed and armed adult female.

A core Olympian goddess, Athena is the focus or a focal character in many legends. She was the foster mother to Erichthonius, the early mythological ruler of Athens, after Hephaestus attempted to rape Athena. She narrowly escaped, but not before his seed was spread upon the Earth and bore the future ruler. Her most famous tale is the creation of Medusa. A priestess in her Athenian temple, Medusa desecrated the sanctuary by breaking her vow of celibacy when she “allowed” herself to be raped by Poseidon. Disturbed, Athena turned her hair to snakes, morphed her lower body and made her gaze turn any man caught in it to stone. Continue Reading

I know what you’re thinking, “What does En Masse Entertainment consider a user.” The company was kind enough to lay it out for us. The two million mark will be bestowed upon TERA in short order thanks to registered users, not active users. The upcoming milestone comes just over a month after TERA’s birthday celebration.

Apart from typical shenanigans, En Masse Entertainment is preparing a large collection of content for the upcoming summer months. General MMOG playing tends to decline during the warm timeframe, but that isn’t going to stop TERA. The first round of content comes July 2 and will be equally summer themed. Pirates are indicative of summer, right?

Who cares, it means a new 20 v 20 map, siege-based gameplay, new loot and an advanced matchmaking system. There’s also the barely detailed Alliance system which will retool the ambitious, yet faulted, Alliance system.

The fallout of THQ and the later intellectual property and licensing purchasing that went on left dozens of titles, multiple companies and countless employees hanging in the window. Dark Millennium, the long-awaited MMOG set in the dark sci-fi universe of Warhammer 40,000 was one such property. And the Warhammer MOBA, well, that was just the first big release to get axed from the fledgling genre.

Fear not, for Games Workshop and Behaviour Interactive have announced that a new Warhammer 40,000 property is in the works. Details remain scarce, but the title is to feature a persistent world with players roaming the lands in a third-person perspective. It’ll be heading to next-generation consoles and the PC. Just don’t hold your breath. The game isn’t scheduled to see the light of day until late 2015.

“I am thrilled to announce what will finally be the first MMORPG based on the Warhammer 40,000 license,” said Miguel Caron, Head of Studio, Online at Behaviour Interactive. “Eternal Crusade’s team are all MMO development veterans and with the support of Behaviour’s 20+ years of experience this is going to be the online Warhammer 40,000 universe game that fans have been dreaming of for years!”

In case you’re concerned with Behaviour. The company has over 150 games under its belt, from online to licensed IPs.