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Dota 2 Championship 2012 Will Take Place at PAX Prime

Video game developer Valve has announced that The International Dota 2 Championships 2012 will take place during the PAX Prime event in Seattle, allowing the best players in the world to go up against each other and fans of the game to come watch some spectacular matches. PAX Prime will take place between August 31 ...

14 May 2012
04:31 GMT

Valve Won’t Announce New Games at E3 2012

Valve boss Gabe Newell has confirmed that his studio won’t announce anything new at E3 2012 in June, as it will show projects that have already been presented to the world, including Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or Dota 2. While it may be one of the most popular videogame developers out there, Valve has te...

3 May 2012
12:31 GMT

Positive and Negative Plot Twists Planned for Half-Life 3

Valve caused a stir recently after revealing to the public its manual for new employees, but the leader of the company also provided excitement for the fan base by commenting on Ricochet 2, a game that the company never plans to actually develop. Gabe Newell talked to the Seven Day Cooldown podcast and was apparentl...

24 April 2012
05:13 GMT

Dota 2 Will Be Free-to-Play, Provided Customers Are Nice to Others

Valve boss Gabe Newell has once again talked about the possible strategy the studio might implement with its upcoming Dota 2 strategy game, saying that he wants to accurately reward players who benefit the community, while imposing restrictions and higher prices on those who are disruptive.Valve is working on quite a...

21 April 2012
07:11 GMT

Dota 2 Test Build Suggests Microtransaction Taunts, Couriers, Items and Skins

A Dota 2 player named Cyborgmatt has been looking through the files of the Valve-made test build of the game and has uncovered evidence of the type of content that players might be able to buy via microtransactions when the final version of the game is launched. The content that can be obtained via real world curren...

23 March 2012
06:21 GMT

Dota 2 Has LAN and Mod Support, Valve Confirms

Valve has just revealed that its upcoming Dota 2 game will have support for user-generated mods, as well as for multiplayer over the local area network (LAN). The original Dota (Defense of the Ancients) title burst onto the scene many years ago and, since then, has spawned its own genre called Multiplayer Online Bat...

16 February 2012
17:21 GMT

Incoming 2012: DOTA 2

What we know:Valve knows that Defense of the Ancients can be serious business and really wants to enter the market, enough to poach one of the man most associated with the original Warcraft III mod, IceFrog, and give him the resources needed to re-create the experience with better graphics and updated mechanics.The g...

9 January 2012
18:41 GMT

League of Legends Has 32.5 Million Registered Players

Developer Riot Games has announced that League of Legends, its free-to-play strategy game built around the DOTA mode, now has more than 32.5 million registered players, with 11.5 million of them playing at least one game each month.The numbers more than doubled since Riot Games reported the same statistics during Jul...

21 November 2011
08:11 GMT

Valve Offers More Beta Invites for DOTA 2

The developers of the DOTA 2 game at Valve have announced that players can complete a survey through Steam in order to get access to the beta of the MOBA title.The team is also allowing all those who have received access to send two invites to those who they believe are interested in the game and can help with testin...

2 November 2011
10:22 GMT

DOTA Name Should Belong to the Community, Blizzard Believes

Blizzard, after just showcasing the first big details of its special Blizzard DOTA title, has once again shared its views on the whole trademark issue surrounding the DOTA name, as Valve is currently trying to secure it before releasing Dota 2 next year.DOTA, or Defense of the Ancients, originated as a community mod ...

25 October 2011
04:45 GMT

Dota 2's Juggernaut Revealed by Valve

Valve has just presented a brand new character, in the form of the Juggernaut, who's going to appear in the upcoming Dota 2 strategy title from the studio.Dota 2 has been in development for quite some time and will soon be released in the form of an open beta for Valve's Steam users.We've already seen ...

30 September 2011
04:03 GMT

Dota 2 Open Beta Coming Soon, Valve Says

After the recent leak of the Dota 2 closed beta, Valve, the developer and publisher of the new strategy title, has revealed that it's changed its own plans for the pre-release version of the game, and that it's going to open the beta stage to everyone in the near future.Valve's current big project is D...

23 September 2011
17:21 GMT

Dota 2 Beta Leaked, Details About Game and Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Available

A beta version for the upcoming Dota 2 online title from Valve has apparently been leaked on the web, with many enthusiasts examining every single file and extrapolating a variety of details about not just Dota 2 but also other files that hint at the often rumored Half-Life 2: Episode 3.Valve is banking big on the up...

20 September 2011
04:43 GMT

Dota 2 Monetization Is Not Yet a Concern for Valve

Video game developer Valve has said that it is not thinking about a business model for Dota 2, its upcoming Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game, and is currently focusing on making the game acceptable to long term fans of the genre.Speaking to Gamasutra about Dota 2 Gabe Newell, who is the co-founder of Valve, has s...

30 August 2011
16:41 GMT

Valve Appreciates Hardcore DOTA community

Video game developer Valve is getting ready to unveil Defense of the Ancients 2 at the Gamescom event in Germany and a lot of the potential success for the arena battle game will be linked to how the tight knitted community that has formed around the game will reach to it.And Erik Johnson, the man who is leading the ...

12 August 2011
14:31 GMT

DotA 2 Official Reveal Coming at 1 Million Dollar Competition

Video game developer Valve has announced that all those interested in Defense of the Ancients 2 will be able to see the official reveal of the video game at a tournament that will be taking place between August 17 and 21 at the Gamescom trade event in Cologne, Germany. Valve is calling the tournament “The In...

2 August 2011
05:10 GMT

Valve Improves Steam Client with Better and Faster Features

Valve has announced that it has overhauled its Steam digital distribution service, specifically the actual program used by its community to download, manage and browse for games, in order to allow a better, faster and smoother download experience. Valve's Steam service is still the king of the digital distrib...

18 July 2011
04:45 GMT

Playable DotA 2 May Appear at Gamescom from Valve

Famous video game developer Valve is set to appear at the upcoming Gamescom 2011 conference in Cologne, Germany, and, at least according to the official attendants list, may bring a playable version of its upcoming DotA 2. Valve made a huge name for itself with massive hits like Half Life 1 or 2, the phenomenal Po...

6 July 2011
02:40 GMT

Wii U Might Be First Nintendo Console Valve Works On

Valve has long been seen by gamers as one of the main video game developers when it comes to the PC market, mainly because of their support for Steam, but the company has also made steady inroads on home gaming console with titles like the Left 4 Dead series and with the recently released Portal 2.And now the company...

23 June 2011
16:41 GMT

Steam Preparing Its Own Free to Play Project, Might be DotA 2

The world of free to play games is getting larger and soon Steam, one of the most innovative developers in the world of video gaming, might be the latest company to launch a project in the field and see how it fares in the long term.While talking with Barre De Vie about the recent initiative to launch free to play vi...

20 June 2011
15:01 GMT

Counter-Strike 2 Teased by Valve Once More

Valve has once again tackled the issue of a full-pledged successor to its hugely successful Counter-Strike game, with Gabe Newell saying that the developer needs to complete other projects before it can worry about it. Valve has a pretty great lineup of popular properties, but by far one of the most successful is ...

9 March 2011
17:21 GMT

All your DotA 2 Questions Answered by Its Main Developer, IceFrog

DotA 2 will be launched next year, as the original DotA developer, IceFrog, has partnered up with Valve and will release a whole new experience, unlike the original game which was just a mod for WarCraft III.Considering the huge fanbase of the original DotA, lots of question appeared about the new game, ranging from ...

2 November 2010
18:21 GMT

Valve Reveals Dota 2, Coming in 2011

Publisher and developer Valve Software has officially confirmed that it has a team working on Dota 2, a game built upon the foundation of the Defense of the Ancients mod for Wwarcraft 3, with the launch date set for some point in 2011 for both the PC and the Mac.IceFrog, the man behind the DotA Allstars version of th...

14 October 2010
16:51 GMT


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