There’s no mistaking that Dota 2 is one of the top dogs in the MOBA genre, a genre that it had a major hand in creating. Anytime a big update for an eSports game is pushed, things get wild. With new updates come rebalancing and new characters, so the game’s meta usually gets flipped on
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Dota Underlords, Valve’s Dota themed auto battler, launched on Steam in June 2019. Ever since then its been in an early-access state, running a “beta season”. Over that time Valve has expanded the game’s reach, making it available mobile devices through both the App Store and Google Play Store. This long beta-phase has undoubtedly hurt the
Dota Auto Chess has been blowing up since its release earlier this year. As of last month, the Dota 2 mod had over eight million unique players. The team at Drodo Studio recently soft-launched their standalone mobile version and Valve is hard at work creating their own standalone PC version that plays off of Drodo’s
The Overwatch Workshop is a game mode that was announced last month which lets players build their own modes. You have access to a number of different things you can change and tweak. Which gives players the ability to create any game mode they can dream up. The mode was on the Public Test Realm
This weekend, the OpenAI Five took down OG in a Dota 2 best of three series, winning two games straight against the defending The International (TI) 8 champions. The matchup was hard-hitting and fast-paced, as the OpenAI pushed quickly and found plenty of opportunities to steamroll OG players. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research company
In any esports community there is going to be a group of cheaters, smurfs, and account resellers that cheapen the experience. In a major loss to those people who play Dota 2, Valve has reset about 17,000 accounts who were abusing matchmaking to get into ranked. Announced in a Tweet earlier today by the official Dota 2 Twitter
Game developer Valve, who brought us games like Left 4 Dead, Half-life, and Portal has announced that their newest endeavor into the card trading world is available on Steam. Artifact is muchly based on Dota 2 and also designed by Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield, which sees players go head-to-head against each and the
In the past couple of months, Valve has certainly kept busy with a number of new game projects like Artifact and more, but recently it appears that the company may also be turning an eye towards streaming. In a report from Venture Beat (via SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik), details surfaced that Valve has registered the domain for “Steam
As Valve has been expanding and re-immersing itself into developing new games over the past few years, one of the first of the company’s new upcoming titles is the collectible card game Artifact, which as we now know is only a few months away from being released. Artifact has officially been confirmed to release for Steam