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Dota 2 is a completely free-to-play game, with all the MOBA’s heroes available to new players from day one. Valve makes money by selling different in-game cosmetics, announcers, HUDs, etc. When major tournaments roll around, the house that GabeN built also puts out time-limited “Battle Passes” that add challenges, co-operative game types, fantasy leagues and […]
As AMD seeks to remain competitive in the PC gaming hardware space, it’s focusing on optimizing performance for some of the most popular eSports titles around, including Overwatch, Dota 2 and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Its latest edition of the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition (18.3.1) packs tweaks courtesy of an internal group — unveiled during the Vega […]
Dota 2 is set to receive some major gameplay changes, according to Valve’s newly released Dueling Fates patch notes. The update will arrive on 1st November, bringing with it the new characters teased at Valve’s International esports tournament in August. They now have names: Donté Panlin, the Pangolier, is a swashbuckling melee hero with the […]
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo is bringing more indies love to the Switch, Pokémon Go adds more Legendaries, and we check out Mario + Rabbids and the Destiny 2 PC beta. Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: The Leisure Economy — where we all get paid to play games PC Gaming […]
Enlarge / Meme artist’s conception of what’s going on at Valve these days. (credit: Twitter @ItMeIRL) If there’s one thing we know about online user reviews, it’s that they often bear little resemblance to the actual quality of the product in question. Today’s evidence: the user reviews section for Dota 2 on Steam, which in […]
It’s no secret that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is selling well even in its Early Access form, but it just crossed an important (if symbolic) milestone. On the morning of August 27th, the battle royale shooter overtook Dota 2 as the game with the most simultaneous players on Steam, with 877,844 fighting at once — yes, it […]
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds just did the impossible — it had more simultaneous players online through the Steam PC gaming service than Dota 2, according to data-tracking site Steam Spy. This is an incredible achievement because few releases have ever come close to threatening Dota 2’s concurrent player number. And that makes sense because Dota 2 is […]
Team Liquid won The International Dota 2 Championships, taking home a grand prize of $ 10.8 million. The European team beat the Chinese opponents Newbee, which took home $ 3.9 million for a second-place position. Team Liquid beat Newbee 3-0 in the final best of five series in Dota 2, Valve’s multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) […]
Artificial intelligence isn’t just good at playing Go — it can also emerge victorious in the eSports arena. The Elon Musk-backed OpenAI team has developed a machine learning system that has beaten “many” of the best pro Dota 2 players in one-on-one matches, including star player Dendi during a live demonstration at The International. The […]
The International Dota 2 Championships is like the Super Bowl of esports, and it wraps up today with three finalists fighting for the lion’s share of a record $ 24 million prize pool. The Dota 2 event takes place starting at 10 am Saturday at the KeyArena in Seattle, Washington. The play begins in a […]
