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Valve Bans 40k Accounts For Cheating in Dota 2
Yesterday I reported on Bungie taking cheat creators to court and winning a hefty amount of money from the cheat developers and today I have another win for us honest players. Valve has announced that they have banned over 40,000 accounts from Dota 2 that were found to be using…
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Valve Starts Banning Dodgy Dota 2 Accounts for Nearly 20 Years!
Dota 2 is, without a doubt, one of the most popular MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games around. Having a (largely) free-to-play structure (with, of course, some payment options) despite its age, it still maintains a very high user level on Steam. With such games, however, often comes those users…
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Artificial Intelligence Beats 2018 DOTA 2 World Champions 2-Nil
Historical Win for Deep Learning Technology In a historic win, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence system has beaten Team OG, the reigning DOTA 2 World Champions. Moreover, it has done so with a 2-Nil score. The exhibition took place in San Francisco and dubbed the OpenAI Five Finals in a best-of-three match.…
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Valve Sign Tim Kitzrow (NBA Jam) For Dota 2 Voice Pack
Valve Sign Tim Kitzrow (NBA Jam) For Dota 2 Voice Pack Earlier this week Valve owner (and overlord) Gabe Newell released a rather amusing video of himself doing a commentator pack for Dota 2. It was pretty terrible. It was meant to be. If you missed it you can check…
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Gabe Newell Releases Dead-Pan Dota 2 Voice Over Video
Gabe Newell Releases Dead-Pan Dota 2 Voice Over Video Gabe Newell, lord and master of Valve. The subject of praise or ridicule, depending on who you ask. In fairness, Gabe Newell has always come across to me as being a decent chap who is more than capable of having a…
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Valve Tells Dota 2 Teams Not To Accept Gambling Sponsors
Dota 2 Teams Told Not To Accept Gambling Sponsors It’s a popular opinion shared by many. The day eSports made it was the day that gambling firms started accepting bets over match results. When you consider how far the industry has come in the last 10-years, it’s remarkable how what…
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Dota 2 eSport Team Banned From Event Due to ‘Unfair’ Mouse
Dota 2 Team Banned From Event Due to Use of ‘Unfair’ Mouse In terms of eSports, Dota 2 is, without doubt, one of the biggest games currently competitively played. The MOBA strategy game requires teams to play with smart movement and map knowledge. Part of a successful Dota 2 player…
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BBC 3 To Broadcast Dota 2 Finals This Weekend
BBC 3 To Broadcast Live UK Dota 2 Finals The world of eSports has grown incredibly in the last five years. With prize funds in the millions now it is clearly if not a sport, then certainly a competition of note to play. With it regularly hitting major milestones, another one…
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Okami’s Amaterasu Could Be Heading to Dota 2 As New Playable Character
Okami’s Amaretasu could be heading to Dota 2 as a brand new playable character Dota 2, along with League of Legends, is one of the most popular MOBA’s around. Being a highly competitive game at home and in eSports, the announcement of a new character is often treated with guarded optimism.…
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Sales Set to Smash 10 Million
The early access steam train! Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds must be befuddling the big developers. Good! At least someone out there still remembers how to make a fun and accessible first-person shooter. Yes, shots fired at EA and Activision there. I’m sure they are quaking at my acidic criticism. In all candour though, Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds…
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Beats DOTA2 in Steam Player Count
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG is everyone’s favorite online game currently and has cemented its legacy recently when it actually surpassed DOTA2 in concurrent online player count over the weekend (according to SteamSpy). Valve’s DOTA2 is a free-to-play game that has dominated the charts ever since it launched. The data is…
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Dota 2 Receives Bad Reviews Because It “Killed” Half-Life 3
Dota 2 did what? Dota 2 and Half-Life have little in common gameplay and story-wise. However, recent news indicates that the renowned MOBA actually contributed to Half-Life’s demise. We’re talking about Half-Life 3, by the way. Marc Laidlaw, a former Valve writer who used to work on Half-Life before becoming…
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Valve Adds Phone Number Requirement for DOTA 2 Account
Valve is going to require DOTA 2 players to register a valid phone number in an effort to combat “Smurfing”—a term used when a secondary lower level account is used by an experienced player to play against players of lower skill level deliberately. Players have until May 4th to attach…
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US Travel Ban has Negatively Affected Valve Says Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell, the president of Valve, candidly spoke about the latest US travel ban in a roundtable with gaming journalists at their Bellevue, Washingon studio offices recently. President Donald Trump’s travel ban has hit Valve in two fronts according to Newell: employees and eSports. According to Newell, there are Valve…
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Dota 2 Team Spent Stolen Prize Money on “Drones and a Porn Star”
Two former members of Team Secret, a well-known professional Dota 2 team, have made shocking revelations about its organisers, accusing them of taking 10% of team winnings without permission and of spending that money on “drones,” “models,” and a “porn star.” Jack ‘EternaLEnVy’ Mao was first to go public with…
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