
#TOP 5 MOBA GAMES 2015 PC#
One need only look at Riot’s League of Legends, the reigning champion of our PC Rankings since we started publishing them, to see the lasting hold the genre as a whole has had on consumers. The genre sits at a nexus of both industry and consumer trends, driven by consumers’ powerful need to experiment with, modify, and create their own content and share it with what has become a global audience. 4 Key Trends over the past 6 monthsĪn overview of the Top 20 core PC Game Rankings data generated over the last 6 months reveals 4 key trends that are shaping the core PC/MMO market segment: 1) eSports and Consumer ParticipationĮSports, like no other PC game innovation before it, has fundamentally altered the PC gaming industry. In January it entered the Twitch rankings at an impressive fifth place.

It will be interesting to see where zombie MMO H1Z1 places in the coming months as anticipation for the title builds. The new entry on the Top 20 core PC Game Rankings for January 2015 is Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (which vanished from the Rankings in October 2014), which took Rank 18, bolstered by the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto V on PC in March 2015 and the impressive in-game bonuses offered by the publisher to consumers who pre-order the title.

Blizzard’s Diablo 3, which has been in a rankings decline for some time, rose 3 places to retake Rank 16, driven in part by the opening of their Season 2 in February 2015. Arma 3, published by Bohemia Interactive, rose 3 places to Rank 7, boosted by a highly active and popular modding community and news of new expansion content.
#TOP 5 MOBA GAMES 2015 PRO#
It remains to be seen if the title regains lost ground in the coming months, driven by the new format for their Pro League games that kicks off mid-February.įreejam’s Robocraft appears to have lost much of the traction provided by its recent IndieDB ‘Indie Game of the Year’ award, dropping 6 places to Rank 20. Perhaps the most noticeable decline for January was the 5 point fall of HiRez Studio’s Smite to Rank 12, driven mainly by a shift away from the title after the end of its recent World Championships. The only change in the Top 5 was the decline of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft to Rank 5, with Valve’s Counter Strike: Global Offensive taking WOW’s place at Rank 4. The Top 3 of the 20 core PC Game Rankings from December 2014 continue to dominate again in January 2015, with Riot’s League of Legends at Rank 1, followed by Wargaming’s World of Tanks and Mojang’s Minecraft at Rank 3. Trend Reports Free reports and whitepapers.Key Numbers Our latest market estimates.
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