EA has decided to shelve its new MOBA Dawngate before it even made it through beta testing. This is a sad development to be sure; the game had some promising concepts to build upon assuming it generated a healthy playerbase (which seems to have been the issue). The cancellation was announced by Group General Manager Matt Bromberg. In the post he gave EA's reasoning as to why they had to make the difficult decision to shut down the game:

Welcome back to Gamescom 2014!

Gamescom's third live event (3 of 3) is from EA. We'll be covering it live, keeping this page fresh. Open the stream and keep refreshing this page!

When: 4:00AM Eastern / 1:00AM Pacific — Watch on Twitch.tv!
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EA Media Briefing - Full Rebroadcast [0h56m]

Welcome to E3 coverage here on ZAM!

Today’s second media briefing (2 of 4) is from EA for 1 hour. We’ll be covering every detail, constantly keeping this page up-to-date. Keep a close eye and keep refreshing!

When: 3:00PM-4:00PM Eastern / 12:00PM-1:00PM Pacific — Watch on Twitch.tv!
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Waystone Games has announced that its upcoming MOBA, Dawngate, will be entering a new "Community Beta" phase. This phase of beta will allow players to jump in and take a crack at the game without first needing to enter a key, which should serve as a way to get more players in and provide the developers with the data they need in order to make Dawngate the next great MOBA to hit the scene.