Our latest coverage of Dota 2.
Tired of playing Dota 2 for free? Well you're in luck! Valve has just announced a new premium service called Dota Plus. For $3.99/month, players gain access to new types of account progression, the ability to earn a new currency called 'shards', hundreds of new challenges, and a real-time 'Assistant' that provides item/ability build suggestions and other in-game information. Valve [...]
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Over the next 6 months, everyone can look forward to more regular updates of DOTA 2. This new schedule will be providing new content more often, instead of the normal updates in which large quantities of content, patches, and bug fixes were dropped a few times a year. This schedule is not intended to be a permanent occurrence, however. We [...]
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Valve has just dropped a massive Dota 2 announcement. Update 7.07, also known as Dueling Fates, not only adds two new heroes but also introduces Ranked Seasons and a new game mode (Turbo). A slew of changes to existing gameplay are also in the patch. Update 7.07 is set to go live on November 1, giving players two days to [...]
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Valve, the studio behind Half-Life, Portal, Counter-Strike, and the Steam platform, just revealed their latest game during the Dota 2 International World Championships. We're incredibly short on details, but we do know the game is called Artifact and that it is a card game based on the Dota franchise. All we have to work with so far is a brief [...]
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Blizzard and Valve settled their dispute over who owns the rights to the Dota name back in 2012, but the jury's still out on whether either company has a legal exclusive right to the vaunted MOBA franchise. uCool and Lilith Games, the mobile gaming studios behind Dota Legends and Heroes Charge respectively are being sued by Valve and Blizzard for [...]
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The Dota 2 International Battle Pass is now available, and buyers who spend $10 or more will gain access to a cooperative multiplayer campaign. Who woulda thunk it? It's called Siltbreaker, and is split into two parts, with the first releasing later this month and second act coming in July. Available to play later this month—and with Act II arriving [...]
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Finally following the example set by Counter Strike Global Offensive, Valve will soon require Dota 2 players to register a phone number before they can play ranked matches. The Matchmaking Update, released today, focuses on improving the matchmkaing experience. The first and most important change requires players to register a unique phone number to their account in order to queue [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid. Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends NA LCS Recap and Standings The 2017 Spring Split of the NA LCS has [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid. Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends Intel Extreme Masters XI World Championship Katowice As the final event of IEM Season [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid. Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends NA LCS Recap and Standings The 2017 Spring Split of the NA LCS has [...]
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