Tag Archives: Dota 2

There are now millions of people around the world who play Valve’s highly successful Massive Online Battle Arena, Dota 2. Although most of them play just for fun, there are also some who play it competitively and actually make a living from this game. A large portion of these players live in China, a country that has been at the forefront of ...

Dota 2 team Natus Vincere is letting go of Artem ‘fng’ Barshak in favor of former Virtus.pro Polar captain Artur ‘Goblak’ Kostenko. This news comes after VP Polar announced last weekend during Dreamhack Bucharest Masters that Goblak will be leaving the team soon. Interestingly, the team also revealed that their former captain will be making its way to Na’Vi in the near ...

Following the recent match fixing controversy that lead to several pro players getting banned, some Dota 2 teams decided that it was time to make a couple of changes here and there. These changes often involved replacing players in an attempt to stop matches from being fixed again in the future. The Filipino team Mineski took this issue very seriously and decided to ...

We all know that skill is what makes a pro gamer truly great, but having some good gear doesn’t hurt either. With that in mind, Logitech announced a new addition to its G-series of professional mice. Dubbed G302 Daedalus Prime MOBA Gaming Mouse, the peripheral is unsurprisingly aimed at players who prefer the Massive Online Battle Arena genre. This genre ...

It looks like Newbee will have to look for a new coach as their previous one, Mikasa, just announced that he is leaving the team. His departure reportedly comes as a result of a contract conflict between team Newbee and HuomaoTV and ZhanqiTV. This is a great blow to Newbee at any rate as Mikasa is widely credited as being one ...

There’s plenty of rivalry in the world of gaming as I learned some years back when every new MMORPG was challenging World of Warcraft for its crown. This rivalry was less between the companies who made the games and more between the people who were playing them. The situation hasn’t changed much nowadays, although the battleground has certainly shifted a ...

Dreamhack Bucharest 2014 is over and the winners of the various tournaments have been decided. The event held in Romania’s capital hosted a number of eSports tournaments for League of Legends, Hearthstone, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2. While most of these competitions mainly saw local players going up against each other, the latter stood out as it featured some of the ...

Item drops in Dota 2 used to be a wonderful thing back in the day when you actually got something useful every once in a while. If you’re like me, by now your inventory is probably full of common items for heroes you never play with and the worst part is that you can’t even sell these items because nobody wants ...

The Massive Online Battle Arena genre – better known as MOBA – has been around for over a decade now, but only received widespread awareness in the last few years. As you may or may not already know, the game that started it all was the original Defense of the Ancients, aka DotA. The game was created as a mod for Blizzard’s ...

Dreamhack Masters Bucharest 2014 is scheduled to begin tomorrow, October 31 and will last until this Sunday, November 2. The event will host a number of competitions and activities, but certainly the most interesting one will be the Dota 2 Champions League Season 4. The tournament will pit against each other four of the best Dota 2 teams in the ...