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Team Brawler - Used by Blizzard to describe Heroes of the Storm.

LoMa (Lords Management) - coined by Idle Thumbs and used by its community.

HAG (Hero Action Game) - one of the the less popular options at the moment.

ARTS (Action Real Time Strategy) - proposed by Valve who launched Dota 2.

The DotA alias also shows up in different variations such as 'DotA clone', 'DotA-like', 'DotA-esque', 'DotA-style' etc.

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DotA (Defense of the Ancients) - The other leading contender to MOBA, DotA takes its name from the Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos mod that propelled the genre to popularity.

AOSs (Aeon of Strife)- Aeon of Strife was the original Starcraft:Brood War map from where the genre arose.The MOBA moniker was proposed by Riot Games who developed League of Legends. MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) seems to be emerging as the leading candidate as of this writing.

Genre NameĪs of early 2012, The emerging genre has yet to have attained a universally accepted name although many acronyms have been proposed. As of this writing the business model, nature of the sub-genre and even its' very name are all in a state of flux. The concept started in the Blizzard Mod community in the mid 2000's and has since proliferated out into standalone AAA releases. Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) is a rapidly emerging sub-genre of the Real-Time Strategy genre and e-sport that may well be on its way to a full blown genre of its own.

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