DotA 2 Archives

This afternoon,  ESL FACEIT Group held their annual Dota 2 tournament, DreamLeague Season 19, which saw the Gaimin Gladiators take the top honors The team fought valiantly against many new faces and some old rivals along the way, taking home a guaranteed $300k and earning a spot in the Riyadh Masters Group Stage at Gamers8[...]

Valve Corporation revealed their plans for the return of an in-person version of The International 10 – Dota 2 Championships this Fall The company posted this message today, which we have for you below, letting fans know that the event will be coming to Bucharest, Romania, and will be happening in early-to-mid October. The International 10[...]

Today, Netflix announced the imminent release of DOTA: Dragon's Blood, an all-new anime series based on the popular DOTA 2 video-game franchise by Valve The 8-episode anime series is set to launch globally on the streamer on March 25. Credit: Netflix DOTA 2 is one of the biggest online games in the world, hosting millions of players[...]

This week, major esports tournament organizer the PGL announced that the first Dota 2 Major of the 2021 DPC Season will happen in Singapore The company revealed that they will be setting up the tournament in one of the safest countries in the world right now when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic This is[...]

Well, that's new! Rather than picking a city on their own, Valve Corporation has put out an open call for someone to host a Dota 2 event But not just any Dota 2 event, they're looking for someone to host The International 2021, their primary global championship esports tournament The company sent out this press[...]

Some cool news for Dota Underlords fans as the game finally has a release date. Valve Corporation will unleash the game on February 25th.

This morning, Secretlab announced a brand new collaboration for a gaming chair, this time with two-time Dota 2 The International champs OG As you can see below, the "Dream OG" chair comes with the team's official logo and branding, not to mention their team colors Plus, as an added bonus, the right shoulder has two[...]

The last thing you want to do when hosting anything revolving around Dota 2 is to not compensate winners, because Valve gets even quickly A report from DotEsports has confirmed that Valve Corporation is suing the Global Electronic Sports Championship (GESC) for failure to pay out a tournament from 2018 The total combined winnings that[...]

For those of you who have been complaining about the matchmaking setup in Dota 2 these days, it appears a fix is on the way The company has been working for several months now trying to improve the system they're currently on, some slight changes here and there All coming in different waves so they[...]

The International 2019 may have ended this weekend, but Valve is already planning for 2020 as Dota 2 will be headed to Sweden next year During this year's event, the company made the announcement both in the area and online, along with the artwork and video you see here While a specific date wasn't given,[...]

Making its return to the World Showdown of Esports, Dota 2 will be the highlighted game of WOSE 6, taking place April 13th and 14th love on Twitch The show will take place live at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, where several teams will face off in a specially[...]

If you happen to be one of the people cheating on Dota 2, you might want to go check your account this week and see where you stand With the cheating recently being caught in the esports community, it looks like Valve decided to do a little spring cleaning in advance and took action against[...]

Dota 2 has always had its fair share of broad personalities with some leading to big controversies, from gambling and cheating all the way to anger and racism But the game seems to have reached a new level of controversy this week in China The Dota 2 Chongqing Major is currently getting intense scrutiny after[...]

The BBC is partnering with the ESL to broadcast the semi-final and final matches from the UK's first Dota 2 major The major will see a dozen world-class teams compete for a $1 million USD prize pool The tournament will coincide with a networking event for esports industry members. BBC Three will stream the semi-finals at[...]

Dota 2 fans had been waiting for information on this year's International Compendium for so long they decided to take matters into their own hands The Dota 2 subreddit started a penguin kidnapping meme as a way to put pressure on the notoriously closemouthed company, and the surprising thing is — it worked. The International is the[...]

The ESL Uk and Esports Inside have partnered up to bring us the ESI Birmingham, which will be an esports business symposium taking place the day before the ESL One Birmingham Dota 2 Major quarter-finals begin So anyone interested in networking in the esports industry will be able to attend the conference on May 24,[...]

ESL and Intel are combining to bring the ESL One Hamburg tournament to life, which will have sixteen Dota 2 teams compete across six days in the Barclaycard Arena from October 26-28 After last year's successful ESL One competition, this second year up the stakes with a longer competition including group stages and playoffs, with twice[...]

Valve has just introduced a new subscription service to Dota 2 that they're calling Dota Plus, which is designed to be a better version of the Battle Pass and eventually replace it The reason being is that rather than having two types of Battle passes with their own rules and guidelines and tiers, the company[...]

DOTA 2 developer Valve has issued a statement regarding DotaTV streaming following this week's controversy surrounding the ESL One Genting 2018 tournament and the subsequent fallout The controversy surrounds the ESL's decision to send DMCA notices to popular streamers PPD, AdmiralBulldog, and BSJ who streamed the ESL One Genting games with their own commentary The streamers[...]

Meanwhile, the top-earning male esports athlete, Kuro Takhasomi, known as "KuroKy", has raked in $3,480,833.95 playing DOTA 2 For the record, Scarlett comes in at number 346 of the top 500 eSports players, by earnings You can see her earnings breakdown by year below. credit// eSports Earnings You could try to argue that the top male esports athletes are[...]

Galaxy Battles was going to be a part of Valve's new approach to tournaments leading up to The International this year, but the tourney has just lost its official Valve backing thanks to a mandatory drug test.

French played the character William "Bill" Overbeck in the series, as well as Father Grigori in Half-Life 2, the Elder Titan in Dota 2, and many other credits to his name French was also involved in television and radio plays and had recently retired as the head of Imagination Theatre, where he had been involved with the company for[...]

Dota 2, if you're not already aware, basically holds the top spot for about two-dozen gaming records in terms of sheer numbers So when someone pops by and threatens one of those records, that action is newsworthy by itself as people have been talking about PUBG's popularity Today, Dota 2 has lost a record as[...]

ELEAGUE has announced that basketball player Jeremy Lin would be featured on the final episodes of their docuseries Road To The International Dota 2 Championships, which will air on TBS on August 25th at 10 p.m EDT Lin is being featured on the series because he is a major Dota 2 fan, which the episode will[...]

 This year's "The International Dota 2 Championships took place August 7-12 at Key Arena in Seattle, and one of the big events pitted Danylo "Dendi" Ishutin against an OpenAI bot  The OpenAI bot also defeated other top pros during the course of the event. Today we played Dendi on mainstage at The International, winning a best-of-three match[...]

Night Shyamalan. That said, we've finally got some details on the game for you, so here is everything we know about Artifact ao far: It is a DOTA-themed digital trading card game developed by Valve. Artifact aims to recreate a game of DOTA 2 in the form of a 1v1 card game from what little we know so[...]

Last night at The International 7, Valve had a special surprise cooked up for the fans. A lot of people were unsure what to make of the excitement, but when

When you're planning tournaments and figuring out the odds and ends and then finally getting the matches on, no one's really thinking "I hope I break so-and-so's record at this." So it probably came as a surprise to planners for Dota 2's International Championship that they managed to score a world record simply by the design[...]

It's been a couple days bit it's worth noting that Dota 2 has finally opened up their co-op campaign, and released details of the campaign via the blog on Thursday. Valve had previously announced that it would be adding a fresh new co-op campaign to Dota 2's multiplayer online battle arena Right now you can play[...]

So instead of shy away from it, why not revel in it? Held during The Manila Masters, organizers threw a little competition called Battle Of The Rages, where Dota 2 fans would stage their own rage quit fits of fury in an attempt to win a prize, which was partially judged by one of the biggest rage[...]