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Valve’s multiplayer battle arena game Dota 2 could possibly be available in the future for your iPad or Android tablet. In an interview at the VGAs, Gabe Newell of Valve expressed how he looked forward to the idea of including the game on tablets. “The good news is that tablets are getting... More

Greek economics theory professor Yanis Varoufakis will research the political economy of Valve's in-game currencies and report his findings weekly in the Valve Economics blog . The hire is in-line with Valve's decision to move to free-to-play. Valve sought out Varoufakis after Gabe Newell became... More

Today, Valve announced that its much-anticipated Dota 2 will be free-to-play, and garner revenue through microtransactions in an in-game store. The move was revealed on the official Dota 2 blog . The post went to lengths to disabuse gamers of the notion that they will be nickel-and-dimed to death in... More

Blizzard said today it has reached an agreement with Valve regarding the trademark issue with DOTA. According to the agreement, Valve will continue to use DOTA commercially, including DOTA 2, while Blizzard will preserve noncommercial use of DOTA for its community with regard to player-created maps for... More

Valve's second Dota 2 tournament is moving from Cologne, Germany to PAX Prime in Seattle. The first tourney featured 16 top Dota teams competing for a grand prize of $1 million, which team Na'vi took home (seen above). No word yet on whether a similar amount will be offered this year during the... More

Blizzard Entertainment has filed a formal opposition to Valve's application for a trademark of the name Dota, stating that it seeks to usurp the consumer goodwill generated by seven years of use in relation to Blizzard products, specifically Warcraft III and the Dota mods that started everything... More

IceFrog explained on the Dota 2 blog that the team decided that the original plan to keep Dota 2 in a small, closed beta for another year as they added new heroes "was dumb." Valve's new plan – quickly get Dota 2 reasonably bug-free and playable without caveats, then open up the beta... More

A Vietnamese beta tester has leaked the entire game client for Dota 2, and the Internet is on fire as the code is picked clean like a desert carcass. Among the massive data mine are details about a Dota store, and weapon information for something called ep3. Could that be Half Life Episode Three? Team... More

The Dota 2 international tournament is over, and Ukranian team Na'Vi has taken home the top prize of one million bucks. The event was spread across five days at Gamescom 2011 in Germany, with 16 teams competing for the top purse. Na'Vi beat out EHOME in the best of five elimination series. Na'Vi... More

Valve previously teased that Dota 2 could be out this fall, but a new report says that we'll have to wait until 2012. GameSpot reports that Gabe Newell told them that the game won't be out until early 2012, although a closed beta from Steam members would be commencing after Gamescom, with an... More

Riot Games announced this morning that the second season of competitive League of Legends play will feature the largest total prize chest in all of e-sports. The $5 million pool more than one-ups the million-dollar Dota 2 tourney happening at GamesCom this week, though to be fair you're comparing... More

Valve is not only showing off Dota 2 at Gamescom in Germany later this month. The company is also giving a million dollars to the winners of The International , a sixteen-team double elimination Dota 2 tournament taking place during the show. Valve is broadcasting the tournament for free in English,... More

Valve has been working on Dota 2 for a while, but hasn't shown much to the public. When will gamers finally get a chance to play it? A voice actor on the project suggests the game will be coming out in a matter of months. On the Impetuous Windmills podcast, John Patrick Lowrie (who voices several... More

Last week Valve announced that its Steam service would be hosting its first free-to-play games , and now there's a report that the company is preparing its own free-to-play project. In an interview with French site Barre De Vie , Doug Lombardi, vice president of marketing for Valve, said simple,... More

Valve opened up the official website for its upcoming action/RTS title with a helpful Q&A about the game. You may want to reinforce your F5 key to take the abuse it's sure to suffer between now and Dota 2's 2011 launch. A few things we didn't cover in our exclusive reveal of the game... More