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People you followTaggedGeneral - Opinion/EditorialCommunity ReviewsOff-topicCommunity PodcastersBloggers Wanted ResponseLetters to Dtoids EditorsGet InvolvedGeneral BadassnessJoin a Live Stream EventListen to CommunitoidJoin a Playdate EventCompete in a ContestValve's free-to-play, high-skill-ceiling MOBA Dota 2 has set a new record for most concurrent players on Steam, with an impressive 329,977 players at once. The last game to set the record was something called "Dota 2," w...
| Patrick Hancock |
To say Dota 2 has gotten off to a great start is an understatement. It immediately garnered the support of casual MOBA fans and competitive tourney goers alike, and the game is going very strong, heading into new stretch goal...
| Chris Carter |
When I first saw Cara Ellison's post on Rock, Paper, Shotgun on how to spend $20 in Dota 2 while simultaneously making your characters look stunning, I thought it was a nice way to completely waste $20. Sure, there are s...
| Patrick Hancock |
If there's anything close to a "Super Bowl" equivalent in the world of eSports, it's The International tournament, hosted by Valve. The prize pool contains $1.6 million, but apparently that's just a starting point. By purchas...
| Patrick Hancock |
Dota 2 keeps on chugging, as a new update has added some minor fixes, sound updates, and tournament improvements, as well as a brand new character -- the Elder Titan (Tauren Chieftan). He's a character based around the concep...
| Chris Carter |
Invictus Gaming, the winning team at last year's The International, has been invited as the first group to compete in the 2013 Dota 2 tournament. The main event is happening August 7-11 in Seattle, Washington. In the more imm...
| Jordan Devore |
As Dota 2 consistently racks up new content updates, it seems like fans have been racking up big numbers for Valve in terms of overall playtime. Breaking the record for overall concurrent players for a Steam game set by Skyri...
| Chris Carter |
Valve continues on with the updates to Dota 2, with the introduction of a full-fledged quest-based tutorial system. As any former MOBA beginner will tell you, this is pretty much a must have for new players, and it's a highly...
| Chris Carter |
The most recent update to Valve's free-to-play MOBA Dota 2 brought in-game player-created guides to help people out. When a guide is selected, the recommended items in the shop will change to those that the player has se...
| Patrick Hancock |
Dota 2 didn't get a new hero yesterday, but it did get a new game mode to hold us over while we wait for everyone's most anticipated hero, Tuskarr. Least Played Mode eliminates your 20 most-played heroes from the pool an...
| Patrick Hancock |
If you were playing Dota 2 around Halloween, you likely played some of the Diretide event and received a Greevil egg. Until now, those Greevils have simply been couriers to use in-game. Today, however, they become much ...
| Patrick Hancock |
Speaking to Kotaku at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards, Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell says the company was "working on getting Dota 2 running on some tablets." Wait, what? Given the nature of the game, wo...
| Jordan Devore |
I hope all you Dota fans out there appreciated that title pun. Been working on it for days! Dota 2 updates frequently, but today will be one of the biggest updates to the game in a long time. The Warcraft III v...
| Patrick Hancock |
GameBattles, which allows users and teams to sign up and compete in tournaments, is adding Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and League of Legends to its fall lineup of online ladder tournamen...
| Patrick Hancock |
Tune in here or via the Dota 2 client! For those not in the know, The International is pretty much the Super Bowl of the Dota 2 pro scene. There's a bajillion million dollars at stake for the first place team, which...
| Patrick Hancock |
A new update just hit Dota 2, and first things first: you do not, and will not, have to pay to unlock any hero in the newly confirmed to be free-to-play Dota 2. If you want, however, you can spend your real-world money in ord...
| Patrick Hancock |
One million dollars was given away last year in Germany to Na'Vi, a Dota 2 team from the Ukraine, for winning the Dota 2 International tournament. This year, at PAX Prime (August 31-September 2) in Seattle, yet another c...
| Patrick Hancock |
MMO leader Blizzard has filed against Valve in an attempt to stop it trademarking DOTA, claiming the name has been used in exclusive association with the Warcraft series for more than seven years. It was filed late last year ...
| Jim Sterling |
The Multiplayer Online Battle Arena genre has been fascinating to watch grow. Like many popular independent works, it started from humble beginnings with a little mod for a well-known game. I can only imagine that few could&n...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
Did you get an email inviting you to tell Valve more about yourself? If you had previously signed up as being interested in the Dota 2 beta, you probably did. Those who fill out the survey may get an invite when the next wave...
| Jordan Devore |
"Our original plan was to spend the next year or so in beta, adding new features and slowly growing the number of heroes until we reached a level of parity with Dota 1, at which point we’d release Dota 2 to the wo...
| Jordan Devore |
The competition found at the Dota 2 International was fierce, but Na'Vi was able to pull through and take the top spot, in addition to $1 million in prize money. (Big money, big prizes -- I love it!) Sadly, I didn't get to w...
| Jordan Devore |
One of the big things that's happening at gamescom right now, aside from all the announcements, is the Dota 2 tournament being run by Valve. It's also the first chance gamers have to get a glimpse of the game in action, whil...
| Alasdair Duncan |
Valve has begun accepting sign-ups for the Dota 2 beta. You can get yourself put on the "I'm interested. Give me one of those codes!" list over here. That link is also where you'll find information about the impending gamesco...
| Jordan Devore |
Ahead of its official gamescom debut, Dota 2 has gotten a trailer centered around the shopkeeper. There is, as you might expect, no gameplay footage in here. Although you'll be getting plenty of that this week during The Int...
| Jordan Devore |
Valve is set to unveil Dota 2 this week at gamescom with a laughably massive tournament between professional teams. However, this is 2011, and we can't possibly let a videogame company have all the fun with revealing its prod...
| Jordan Devore |
You read that correctly. Valve is putting on a tournament for Dota 2, dubbed The International, at Germany's gamescom from August 17th to the 21st. Broadcast live for free, the 16 best Dota teams in the world will play in a "...
| Jordan Devore |
There have been plenty of rumors and bits of information about Dota 2 making an appearance at gamescom in the past week and beyond. Between Valve's hints at the upcoming title here and there, its presence at gamescom, and tal...
| Maurice Tan |
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