{"id":11173,"date":"2018-01-24T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/switchs_first_moba_arena_of_valor_will_kick_off_its_eu_closed_beta_on_27th_jan"},"modified":"2018-01-24T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T22:47:00","slug":"switchs-first-moba-arena-of-valor-will-kick-off-its-eu-closed-beta-on-27th-jan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/24\/switchs-first-moba-arena-of-valor-will-kick-off-its-eu-closed-beta-on-27th-jan\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch&#8217;s First MOBA, Arena Of Valor, Will Kick Off Its EU Closed Beta on 27th Jan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news1.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/switchs_first_moba_arena_of_valor_will_kick_off_its_european_closed_beta_on_27th_jan\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/switchs_first_moba_arena_of_valor_will_kick_off_its_european_closed_beta_on_27th_jan\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Last year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/free-to-play_moba_arena_of_valor_is_fighting_towards_switch\">we learned Nintendo Switch is set to get its first MOBA<\/a> in the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/arena_of_valor\"><strong>Arena Of Valor<\/strong><\/a>, and now the Tencent-developed online battler is getting a closed European beta this month from midnight (UTC) Saturday 27th January to midnight Monday 28th January.<\/p>\n<p>The 5v5 MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) &#8211; which shares at least a passing resemblance to PC-based, eSports super-hit <strong>League Of Legends<\/strong> &#8211; has already been out on mobile since December 2017 and now the Chinese developer is planning to test its servers and netcode on Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/switchs_first_moba_arena_of_valor_will_kick_off_its_european_closed_beta_on_27th_jan\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/switchs_first_moba_arena_of_valor_will_kick_off_its_european_closed_beta_on_27th_jan\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\" alt=\"news2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word on a North American closed beta just yet, but if you&#8217;re here in the EU you can <a href=\"https:\/\/discordapp.com\/invite\/yUgJJC8\">join the game&#8217;s official Discord channel<\/a> and share your thoughts with your fellow warriors (as well as getting updates on future events). Here&#8217;s the game&#8217;s official CGI and some gameplay footage taken from last year&#8217;s No-Pro Tournament between the UK and Germany &#8211; let us know what you think and whether you&#8217;ll be joining us for the closed beta.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we learned Nintendo Switch is set to get its first MOBA in the form of Arena Of Valor, and now the Tencent-developed online battler is getting a closed European beta this month from midnight (UTC) Saturday 27th January to midnight Monday 28th January. The 5v5 MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) &#8211; which shares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}