Battleborn is 2K's new 'hero shooter' from Borderlands 2 developer Gearbox ...
Publisher 2K Games today announced its new first-person shooter, Battleborn, a game it's dubbing a 'hero shooter' and that's coming from the team that made Borderlands 2 at Gearbox Software. It's pegged for a '2016 fiscal year release' for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
'If Borderlands 2 is a shooter-looter, Battleborn is a hero-shooter,' said Randy Pitchford, the president of Gearbox Software, in a canned statement. 'As a genre-fused, hobby-grade, co-operative and competitive FPS exploding with eye-popping style and an imaginative universe, Battleborn is the most ambitious video game that Gearbox has ever created.'
2K says that Battleborn sports 'highly stylized visuals and frenetic first-person shooting' in its press release. It has a sci-fi setting. It has a co-op campaign and multiplayer. From the description, it reads like Battleborn is a shooter take on the multiplayer online battle arena, a type of strategy game that's become one of the biggest moneymakers in the free-to-play arena - and one of the most important genres in e-sports.
But it's not a MOBA, confirms 2K to GamesBeat.
MOBAs are becoming key to the health of the game industry. Riot Games' League of Legends helped its parent company, Tencent, make $1 billion in profit in the first quarter of fiscal 2014. It and its main rival, Valve's Dota 2, boosted e-sports viewing to 2.4 billion viewer hours in 2013. Even EA's getting into the MOBA act with Dawngate. League of Legends generated around $624 million last year in microtransaction sales, while Dota 2 brought in around $80 million.
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