Tag Archives: Dota 2

Not even a week has passed yet in 2017, but the first major Dota 2 tournament is already well underway. At ESL One Genting, eight of the world’s finest Dota 2 teams are competing for a total prize pool of $250,000. Virtus Pro, Fnatic, Newbee, Team NP, Digital Chaos, Execration, Wings Gaming and WG Unity are fiercely competing. The games ...

Ardent online gamers in America spend an average of 6.5 hours per week playing games with others virtually and five hours playing with others in person, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) reports. And that’s to say nothing of the some 155 million Americans who put their money where there mouth is and play online games annually at sites such as ...

The MOBA genre has been at the heart of eSports for quite some time now, and one of the core contenders has been DOTA 2. Since its release, DOTA 2 has been loved by most, but definitely faced a few issues. Many bugs exist in the game, its learning curve is almost insurmountable unless you have somebody experienced helping you, and ...

$13 million? Pah. That’s barely even 86 million Danish Krone. Hardly even 438526954 Thai Baht. Just 8943682320 Rwandan Francs. Nothing! At least, those are the words ringing around the Valve’s vast cathedral-like HQ this morning at the news that this year’s Dota 2 International prize pool has again destroyed its own record by climbing past the $13 million mark. At ...

Twitch has released its annual report, and 2014 was a big year for them. First, they were acquired by Amazon for a massive $1 billion, which equated to $970 million in cash. And now Twitch revealed that they hit an impressive milestone of 100 million unique viewers per month. The statistics keep improving, since the site also hit a peak of 1 ...

Dota 2 already features well over 100 heroes to choose from, but there are still a few missing and it’s pretty much guaranteed that they will be added later this year. After the release of Techies and Oracle in late 2014, there are now only three unreleased heroes left from the original DotA roster. Valve is planning to also introduce ...

Eager for the upcoming The International 5 Dota 2 tournament? Apparently so is Valve. Just moments ago, the company announced that preparations for one of the biggest gaming events of the year are already under way. Details are a bit scarce at this time, but Valve was able to reveal that this year the main event will feature 16 of ...

Valve revealed the next Dota 2 major update while also detailing all the new content found within. Entitled Shifting Snows, the update brings new treasure chests, new items, new effects, and the brand new (or pretty old if you’re a veteran DotA player) 6.83 gameplay patch. Unsurprisingly, there’s a winter theme to this update, which is overall a small consolation seeing ...

Generally speaking, electronic sports – or eSports for short – are not something that most people are familiar with. Sure, many of us gamers are well aware of them and some of us even follow the various competitions regularly, but for the majority of people this is still a new and strange concept. Have you ever tried explaining to your ...

If you were looking forward to seeing some quality Dota 2 this weekend at the Synergy League LAN finals I’m afraid I have some bad news for your. The finals, which were originally scheduled to take place between November 28 – 30 have been postponed until next year. The organization responsible for hosting the event announced that it will no ...