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Valve has been taken to court by two mobile developers, Lilith Games and uCool, who have made smaller MOBA Dota 2 clones for smartphones in China Naturally, Valve sued due to copyrights, to which uCool fought back and claimed Valve doesn't own the source material the game is based on, and their case should be thrown out. Which,[...]

The latest Dota 2 patch has just hit the game's servers, and with it came a ton of balance changes meant to address the most pressing concerns with The International 7 tournament looming on the horizon While working to fine-tune the balance, Valve nerfed the hell out of all respawn talents. Talents, special upgrades added in[...]

Yesterday, Valve threw down details for The International 2017 Battle Pass for Dota 2 Now players looking for that digital ticket into tournaments will have more advantages and access to some of the biggest events coming up this summer before they hit Seattle later this season. Included in the pass is the multiplayer campaign "Siltbreaker," which[...]

When the two teams finally met, TS basically played a perfect game int he first round and went up 1-0, but SG came back in the second game responded in-kind with an awesome match of their own to tie it up 1-1. In the tiebreaker, SG's Adriano "4dr" Machado and Danylo "KINGRD" Nascimento pulled one of[...]

If you want to keep competing in ranked DOTA 2 matches, you'll need to join Valve's new phone registry. Their reason for the seemingly absurd request is that too many players have multiple accounts The phone registry would require you to link one account to your phone in order to compete in ranked matches And naturally, Valve[...]

Compete is reporting today that artists who are developing skins for Dota 2 are getting cheated by Valve out of profits earned through the store for their

But we've got a new record for an extreme case of moving with the latest Dota 2 tournament happening next month. Prestige World Wide is a U.S based team that temporarily relocated to an unknown location in Southeast Asia to register and compete for that region's cup They were the sole team to do so (after[...]

Who is Allen Cook? He's the team analyst and sales manager for Ad Finem, a Greek eSports team who compete in games like Hearthstone and Dota 2 Cook made the news rounds last week after he tweeted out that he placed bets on his own team, as well as a competing team, OG, on who would[...]

Dota 2's The International is always utterly insane when it comes to prize money, but its popularity is only growing You can tell by that ever rising community infused winnings. With the finals just starting yesterday, the winnings have just hit a massive mile stone The current prize money available at the tournament just hit $20[...]

I know it has a huge following who swear by it though, so this might be some pretty big. The interdimension traveling duo have now invaded Dota 2, in what might be the funniest announcer pack yet There are a lot of little in jokes here and I love how 'messy' the two are at announcing[...]

I've been keeping tabs on The International 5 over the last few days, and it has been a wild ride. All the favorites were knocked around in the early

The prize pool for Dota 2's biggest tournament has rocketed to $17.8 million thanks in large part to crowd purchases for the free-to-play game That makes this the most lucrative tournament in e-Sports history, coincidently beating The Internation last year where the pool was $10 million The tournament will kick off tomorrow with teams LGD and Empire[...]

Dota 2 has been a big part of my gaming life over the last three months or so It has a way of sucking you in and keeping you coming back I even invested into the Compendium, the in game incentive that then puts money into the prize pool for the yearly Dota 2 championship,[...]

I've been putting off writing about Dota 2 for a while That is in part because it's taking up about half of all my playing time at the moment It feels like a dirty secret I have after once swearing I'd never get the appeal One day I will write an editorial about what got[...]

At one point in my life, I looked at Dota 2 being played during an e-sport event and thought to myself, "I'll never understand this" Two years later, I'm dangerously close to getting addicted The game is a rabbit hole I'm trying to keep a healthy relationship with, but it threatens to consume me frequently. It[...]

This summer the Dota 2 event The Championship had a record breaking $10,000,000 prize pool where Chinese team Newbie took home 5,028,308 for themselves In 2012, the MLG announced a 334% growth from 2011 in live viewers, spectators jumping from 3.5 million to 11.7 million across four major events That was 2 years ago That[...]

Like these folks did. To see more of Ian's cosplay coverage be sure to follow him on Tumblr for all the latest in cosplay tutorials, pictures and convention updates. Cammy (Street Fighter) – ivettepuig (http://ivettepuig.deviantart.com/) Akasha (DotA 2) – MrProton (http://mrproton.deviantart.com) Photographer – MilliganVick (http://milliganvick.deviantart.com) Misato Katsuragi (Evangelion) – Fiora-solo-top (http://fiora-solo-top[...]