

I'm also a big fan of PUGB Mobile, the battle royale title that completely flipped my preconceptions of mobile shooters. I'm still skeptical about console shooters, for instance, but I'd be lying if I said I felt restricted playing Halo on a pad. I tend to show similar symptoms of PC snobbery from time to time. And yet I just spent a significant slice of my weekend completely glued to Arena of Valor, a port of a mobile MOBA that was released on the Nintendo Switch last week. MOBAs are a genre I could never see working on consoles - controllers just don't have enough buttons, nor do thumbsticks have the precision of a mouse. Steam tells me I've sunk over 2000 hours into Valve's Dota 2, and I must've spent at least another few hundred hours dipping into both League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm.


First it was Dota, back when the game was still a custom Warcraft III map. I've been playing multiplayer online battle arena games - better known as MOBAs - for the best part of two decades.
