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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Every year, Steam tends to organize the top-grossing titles in four different categories, including Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. In 2020, while there are still some familiar faces that we regularly see every year, some unexpected guests also shine among them, like Among Us. Grand Theft Auto V, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive are
Valve has been laying down the law it seems as the official Twitter account announced that it had banned a huge number of players from the MOBA game Dota 2 for apparently abusing matchmaking. On February 11, the tweet announced that Valve had banned over 40,000 accounts. Those accounts were apparently found to be abusing the
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is approaching its Season Two release today, which includes new content and game modes. While a lot of excitement surrounds the inclusion of the Modern Warfare 2 map Rust, many are criticizing the CDL Playlist. Since Black Ops 2, fans of CoD have begged for the addition of Ranked Play.
Dota Underlords is Valve’s in-house developed answer to the uber-popular Auto Chess genre. The game has seen success even in an increasingly populated space. The team has been constantly updating the game, recently pushing out the “Big Update“, which added tons of new content. The latest update – “The Outlanders” – continues the recent string
Dota Underlords is Valve’s answer to the popular auto-battler genre that was first developed as a mod to Dota 2. Underlords is a standalone version of the game that Valve has quickly been turning into one of the premier titles in the growing genre. This week the game got a ton of changes and additions
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
If you haven’t yet heard of Dota Auto Chess, there’s a good chance you aren’t frequenting the Dota 2 community. However, the game may not be limited to those niche communities for long. With many chiming in that Dota Auto Chess is “one of the fastest growing games in 2019,” a couple questions remain: what is it, why is
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
After winning this year’s Dota 2 championships, The International, it looks like Team OG is getting a documentary to record their historic victory. Valve is releasing the documentary, titled True Sight, in Copenhagen on January 15 for a special screening with the team. The documentary takes people into the action of The International finals between Team OG and Paris Saint
In South Korea, the act of playing ranked matches on another persons’ account–or “boosting”–will be a punishible crime in six months. The person doing the boosting might even go to jail. Going to jail for playing video games though, sounds pretty rad. South Korea, which just took home its third-in-a-row championship title in the Overwatch World Cup,
You may remember last week’s extraordinary report that esports team TNC Predator alleged that organizers for an upcoming event threatened the safety of one of their controversial players. Following many big players in the Dota 2 scene and blowback on the dedicated community, developer Valve has stepped in, claiming that the points that TNC brought up were
If you aren’t in the esports or MOBA scene, you may tune out regarding the abundance of drama, feuds, and backlash within the growing field. But after some mean-spirited conversation, the upcoming Chongqing Major for Dota 2 is under a magnifying class, with reported veiled threats coming from the tournament’s organizers. It may turn out to be
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
Valve’s latest update for Dota 2 makes some big changes to the game’s loot-based microtransactions. Players will now be able to see the percentages for various drops before they purchase keys to unlock treasure chests. You’ll be able to see your exact chances of getting higher rarity loot based on the number of keys you buy. 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
A record many thought unbreakable: has been broken. That’s right Dota 2’s record for the most concurrent players on Steam has been broken by PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. A non-Valve game. A game not even out of Early Access. For those unfamiliar with the term “concurrent players,” all this means is that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has had more people play it at