League of Legends is inspired by popular Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients, where players level up a single avatar amongst a giant battle of smaller armies.
nopeDeveloper Riot Games' team includes some of the people behind DotA and certainly appears to be following nicely in its wonderful, wonderful footsteps.
League of Legends: Clash of Fates is due to be released on PC later this year.
I don't get why Demigod did that (the symetric arena thing). It totally breaks immersion even in the preview movies. Wha...
It doesn't appeared to be tile based like the WC3 engine - the ground looks like it was textured in a 3D program.