So, what has Lim-Dul been up to apart from whining about bad games? Did he start hating on everything but HoN? No! In fact I've found many interesting titles I'm excited about and will report on in different posts.
First up is Bloodline Champions, currently in VERY closed beta (comparatively speaking).
It's another one of those "Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas" which DotA and HoN are usually classified as but actually plays COMPLETELY different and I would wholeheartedly encourage everybody to at least take a peak at it and register for the beta. Unlike HoN or DotA you don't level your heroes, you don't defend/attack bases, don't buy items and don't fight AI creeps - it's pure player versus player action played on small maps, each round lasting two minutes tops.
I'd say Bloodline Champions is a mix of Diablo, DotA/HoN, WoW Arenas and especially top-down shooters. You don't even click to move - you only aim with the mouse while movement is handled by your usual WASD layout, very much like Crimsonland and hundreds of other similar titles.
Virtually all spells/abilities have to be targeted manually and hence there's a great deal of skill involved and FPS experience might actually be very useful.
What I was especially enamored with is the overall game design and lore. It's nothing like your typical good vs evil fantasy world with orcs and elves - it's being developed by a small Swedish studio and hence has a very European "Nordic" feeling to it. The artwork and character design is absolutely brilliant and I'm a big fan of the fact that none of the female champions are oversexualized as usual (as much as I am a fan of massive boobage).
By all means check it out, register for the beta and hope for the best! I'm having an absolute blast playing it and the fact that matches last so shortly makes it a PERFECT drop-in-drop-out title, which I love.
http://www.bloodlinechampions.com/
http://www.facebook.com/BloodlineChampions
Ah, here's a channel with good gameplay videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mandlervision
Trailer:
Developer-made Chibi versions of all the bloodlines. :-D
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But the other 2 were close behind and together we won 5:0. 
