1UP writes: "Despite Chris Taylor's... how do you put it?...energy, the maverick developer likes to keep a low profile and think small. Gas Powered Games, the company he founded 10 years ago, doesn't feel like a huge blockbuster-producing development house. It's no fly-by-night, four-guys-in-a-garage operation, either, but teams are tiny (the size of Demigod's squad only recently hit double digits), and each group functions like a self-contained unit instead of a cog in a larger machine. Each runs its own servers, owns all of its own equipment, and makes its own rules. This is how independent game development infects a big-league developer, circa 2008.
And like many other indies, Gas Powered Games wants to mash up gameplay and mutate genres. The difference is that GPG has a deeper well to draw from than most pajama programmers. Cult classic Total Annihilation was Taylor's first brainchild back in 1997, and since then, his company's produced Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commander along with their respective sequels and expansion packs. Sift through this back catalog and you'll find plenty of real-time strategy and fistfuls of roleplaying, but never in the same box. That's changing with Demigod."
Stardock, one of the the longest running indie developers in the video game industry, has launched an intergalactic RTS Steam sale to end all RTS Steam sales.
That's a lot of RTS games... time I just don't have! Like I need my backlog to get any bigger!
Ya it's a pretty decent sale but The Taken King, MGSV, Fallout 4 soon... too many games.
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I still haven't found a MOBA I can get into. Did LoL for awhile, but it was such a slow grind in terms of ranking up and getting money. DOTA 2 just scares me. Infinite Crisis was alright, but I lost interest in it pretty quickly.
Why does Dota 2 scare you? Just wondering because imo its a fairly accessible game especially if you get some friends together to play with you. Also if you are just scared of sucking dont be, just have fun and ignore those who flame because if they are flaming then they probably suck too and are just trying to blame you for any of their mistakes. So just download it AND HAVE FUN!
"From mod to sensation" to over-saturation.
i dont like how all these companys are now trying to make mobas, the markets already been taken by lol and dota.
they should come up with something new instead of just copying.
GamesBeat recently compared the most popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) titles such as League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth, and Dota 2 to each other, but many other games in the genre are also worth checking out. Inside you’ll find a selection of MOBAs from the past, present, and future and the unique elements they have to offer.
