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League of Legends finished on top of Twitch’s latest monthly most-watched games list, the streaming network has announced. Kotaku reports LoL finished ahead of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, with Hearthstone and Rocket League rounding out the top five. Folks are also still tuning into titles such as Starcraft …
Read More »Valve: No plans for CS:GO International despite Dota’s success
Valve has reiterated their decision not to host a single world championship for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive despite the success of last week’s Dota 2 finals. The International 5 concluded at the weekend, reaching a massive audience with several million watching across five official language streams, with American team Evil Geniuses …
Read More »US team Evil Geniuses wins Dota 2 International
Dota 2 tournament the International has concluded with American team Evil Geniuses coming out on top, and all five members becoming millionaires in the process. Kotakureports the squad is the first American team to win the eSports event, doing so by beating Chinese team CDEC 3-1 in a best-of-five Grand …
Read More »Valve debuts 24-player Dota 2 mode at The International All-Star match
Dota 2’s annual exhibition match during The International has played host to another surprise for fans as the 5v5 game turned into a 10v10. The All-Star, usually played as a mix of fan favourite pros on each team, was used to showcase Dota’s newest hero, Techies, during last year’s tournament. …
Read More »Dota 2 International disrupted by DDoS attack
Valve’s massive Dota 2 International eSports tournament suffered an unwanted hold up yesterday. VentureBeat reports that the event was paused for approximately three hours due to a DDoS attack, forcing the livestream production team to fill the time with pre-produced video packages and assorted analysis of the action that should …
Read More »Loda on reforging the Alliance after poor Dota 2 season
After crashing out of ESL One Frankfurt early last weekend, Alliance’sJonathan "Loda" Berg is considering rebuilding the team after a brief break. The team, operated under Alex Garfield’s GoodGame organisation, dominated the Dota pro scene throughout 2013 and early 2014, with a win at Valve’s pretigious tournament The International 3. …
Read More »Valve details Source 2 engine in Dota 2 Reborn update
Rendering, physics and cloth improvements featured in Valve's latest tech
Read More »Dota 2 reborn using Valve’s Source 2 engine, improves spectator experience
Valve has announced the rebirth of Dota 2 by detailing features in the new game client running on the Source 2 engine. The new game client, which has been in the works for some time judging by many hints at a Source 2 release last year, will be available in …
Read More »Twitch and ESL to host $250,000 Dota 2 tournament at Madison Square Garden
The largest eSports tournament ever held on America’s East Coast will take place this October. Organised in collaboration between streaming giant Twitch, eSports body the ESL and New York Super Week organisers ReedPOP, ESL One will see eight Dota 2 teams battle for $250,000 in prize money. Like last year’s …
Read More »Dota 2 championships set new prize pool record
The fifth annual Interntaional Dota 2 Championships has pulled together a record-setting prize pool ahead of the event this August. The company initially announced a prize pool of $1.6m in April, which climbed to over $5.5m in a matter of days thanks to sales of the game’s latest virtual Compendium …
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