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Some of the world’s best Dota 2 players are doing battle at Valve’s The International esports tournament, but they may need some more practice when they get home. That’s because the company just announced it will add two more characters soon in its “The Dueling Fates” update. Neither hero has a name yet, but in […]
An artificial intelligence has beaten one of the world’s top Dota 2 players in single combat today. Danil Ishutin, better known by his gaming handle “Dendi,” threw in the towel in the middle of a second game against a bot that OpenAI created, one that had been beating him handily. The two squared off in […]
Tonight, during Valve’s “The International” Dota 2 esports tournament the company announced it’s making a spinoff card game associated with its popular MOBA. Other than its name, Artifact, a brief teaser trailer and a release window of 2018, we didn’t get any details, but Dota fans have been dreaming up Hearthstone-like card game iterations for […]
Enlarge / The aegis of champions. (credit: Valve) The biggest competition in all of e-sports is about to kick off in earnest: the Dota 2 International 2017 starts on Monday. Sixteen teams will compete in Seattle’s KeyArena for a prize pool of more than $ 23 million, with the winning team alone picking up more […]
For many rookies in Dota 2 and other multiplayer online battle arena games, the biggest obstacle isn’t the game itself — sometimes, it’s the community. There are certainly helpful players, but MOBAs are notorious for jaded players who are hostile to anyone who isn’t already a grizzled veteran. Valve wants to fix that. It’s delivering […]
The annual Dota 2 Secret Shop has been announced by Valve today, allowing players to snap any merchandise they desire ahead of The International finals. “Featuring a host of both original and community-created designs, the Valve Store powered by WeLoveFine is now taking orders to ship this year’s products almost anywhere in the world,” a […]
Next month, Valve will host The International 7 at Seattle’s KeyArena. The annual Dota 2 tournament is all but set to break the record for prize pools in eSports for the fourth year running, with over $ 20 million in the kitty to date. But GabeN & Co is already looking past the headline championships […]
Enlarge / Siltbreaker, coming this month to Dota 2 for $ 10. (credit: Valve Software) The online team-battling game Dota 2 has long differentiated itself from other “MOBA” games by charging zero money for its core gameplay, including all of its playable characters. That changes later this month, as developers Valve Software announced the game’s first-ever […]
DOTA 2, usually a video game about saying mean things to other humans over the internet, is embracing the spirit of togetherness later this year with the release of a series of co-op story missions, part of a campaign called Siltbreaker. Advertisement Anyone owning a 2017 Battle Pass will be given access to the campaign, […]
GIF SG Esports had already conquered a titan in Team Secret, and just a day later, the team found itself facing another giant in Evil Geniuses. Though the underdog didn’t overcome the odds this time, the match between these two was a barnburner. Advertisement Game 1 was the first sign that it would be a […]
