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DotA 2 Confirms F2P, Releases Details of Item Store, Steam Workshop
Valve’s upcoming DotA 2 has confirmed that it will be a free-to-play game, and that, while it will feature an item shop, all items in the game will be purely cosmetic with no gameplay effects....
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DOTA 2 Spectator Mode updated with community features, advertising space
Valve has updated the DOTA 2 client with an emphasis on Spectator Mode. The patch has added a number of beginner-friendly features like the opportunity to check out heroes and their abilities as...
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Steam Workshop creators warned to avoid copyright infringement
Valve has issued a stern warning to its lively community of modders and creators following a copyright infringement case. Someone had the bright idea of copying a mace design from MMORPG Aion and...
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Sunday eSports: Round-ups and Recaps
The last month has been nothing but a hive of activity at home and abroad, but for a nice change of pace, Australians have been right in the thick of it. While the World Championship Series was a great...
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Ideal DotA 2 team composition mined from match record data
After analysing a total of 39,626 different possible DotA 2 team combinations, a Reddit user by the name of KjellJagland has discovered what appears to be the optimal team composition for DotA 2 — or...
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Australian DotA 2 servers on the way by January 2013
Valve’s developers have posted on the official DotA 2 forums overnight to reveal that Australian servers are on the way. Posting on the developer forums, Valve dev milton revealed that “The equipment...
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Get the Bastion Announcer in your DOTA 2 with this new DLC
The DOTA 2 store is now offering the Bastion Announcer Pack for $9.99, which contains both the Announcer and the Mega-Kills Announcer. Contributed by Bastion developers Supergiant Games, the pack puts...
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DOTA 2 passes 100 million matches, new update avalable
Valve has gleefully announced that DOTA 2, its sequel to the original MOBA, has managed to tot up 100,000,000 matches played. DOTA 2 now attracts 3 million unique users a monthw hich Valve describes as...
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DOTA 2 overtakes Skyrim as most concurrent users title on Steam
When Skyrim launched at the end of 2011 it garnered at record-breaking 287,411 concurrent online players beavering away on Steam — a record that has since been untouched. Now, however, DOTA 2 has...
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Steam traffic accounted for 2% of all net traffic during DOTA 2 update,...
During an interview following last week’s BAFTA awards, Valve’s head honcho Gabe Newell dropped some rather impressive figures about the company’s recent growth. “There’s sort of an insatiable demand...
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Which is the most-played MOBA? LoL and DotA 2 make conflicting claims
Yesterday, a company called DFC Intelligence produced a report which stated that DotA 2 was the most-played “core” PC title in the West, passing League of Legends in popularity throughout the first...
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Valve spruiks Dota 2 tourney, rolls out game fixes
It’s been a big day for Dota 2 fans, with Valve announcing a major tournament and issuing a substantial list of updates. Technically still in beta, this MOBA fantasy sequel has already attracted a...
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Dota 2: The International teams announced
Valve has chosen 13 teams to take part in this years Dota 2 world championships, The International. Naturally, you’ll recognise most of the names, coming as they do from the best and brightest teams;...
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Hundreds of thousands of DotA 2 players overjoyed to know it will soon be...
Valve’s Doug Lombardi has confirmed reports that DotA 2, which is currently the most played game on Steam, is soon set to leave beta and actually launch. While more details will be confirmed in the...
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Dota 2 still isn’t free, but paid access prices have been lowered
If for some reason you don’t have a friend with 75,000 spare invites spilling out of their inventory, you can buy access to Dota 2 by purchasing it through Steam. And now, as the game continues to...
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DotA 2 finally leaves beta in staggered rollout, join the queue now
The day has come at last to throw away, delete and burn all of your 19,023 un-sent DotA 2 beta invites from your Steam Inventory. You can now head to the DotA 2 page on Steam and click the “Get DotA 2″...
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DotA 2 is now available for Mac and Linux as well
Valve have announce the release of their new F2P juggernaut DotA 2 on both Mac and Linux as well as Windows. The support for Mac and Linux comes as an automatic update to the existing client. Here are...
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Blizzard explains WCS clash with DotA 2 International “not intentional”
The regional finals for the StarCraft 2 World Championship Series Season 2 have been scheduled — and unfortunately for fans of both SC2 and DotA 2, they clash directly with Valve’s International 3...
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The Dota 2 International is now worth $2.7 million, get the local Australian...
While everyone likes to win large stacks of money, the winners of the upcoming Dota 2 tournament The International will walk away knowing that a whole pile of that money was donated not by corporate...
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The Dota 2 International is now on: watch it live and earn prizes for your...
The International 3 has now kicked off, Valve’s Dota 2 championships that see the top 16 teams in the world battling it out for nearly $3 million in prize money in Seattle, Washington. As the matches...
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