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Valve Quietly Announces Super-Secret Hero Shooter Deadlock Months After People Started Playing It
26.8.2024
Deadlock is official. The multiplayer shooter that thousands of players have been testing on Steam but not been allowed to talk about now has its own store page that’s mostly full of information about how the game could drastically change at any moment. Read more
Valve's New Hero Shooter Is Leaking All Over The Place And Fans Are Confused
22.5.2024
Valve—the company behind Half-Life and Steam—is working on a new game likely named Deadlock. It’sprobably a third-person team-based hero-shooter with MOBA and tower defense elements. And people are playing it right now via a closed and private beta. However, some of those same people have started...
Steam Trolls Players With Bans Wrapped Up Like Christmas Presents
15.12.2023
Video game companies have gotten very creative when it comes to punishing cheaters, from cutting their parachutes’ strings in Call of Duty to blowing them up in Grand Theft Auto Online. But Valve just set a new benchmark for trolling players: sending them permabans wrapped up like Christmas...
Arteezy’s transition to kick sparks controversy in Dota 2 community
30.11.2023
Arteezy’s switch from Twitch to Kick streaming has generated controversial discussions in the Dota 2 community. It goes beyond the question of what platform to choose; though a significant portion of his subscribers prefer Twitch, it has to do with a scandalous changeover to gambling content....
Dota 2, Rocket League pros ‘want to explore’ Web3 and blockchain gaming
21.7.2023
Professional Dota 2 player Erik “Tofu” Engel believes that Web3 has features that are very beneficial to gamers
Valve Is Ditching Battle Passes Since Most Players ‘Never Buy’ One
20.6.2023
Valve—the company behind Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and digital game store juggernaut Steam—has revealed its future plans for its popular free-to-play MOBA, Dota 2. And those plans, surprisingly, don’t involve players buying annual paid battle passes that require grinding to unlock cosmetics...
Valve Traps And Bans 40,000 Cheaters In Ingenious Way
23.2.2023
Competitive action RPG Dota 2 remains the second most-played game of all-time on Steam. Naturally, some of those players are cheaters. But this week Valve purged thousands of them from the platform thanks to an extremely clever little rouse: a bit of bogus game code that would only be activated...
Pro Gaming Champ Says He Peed In A Bottle During $205,000 Tourney
20.1.2023
When you gotta go, you really gotta go. I just wish that esports tournaments felt the same about letting their competitors use the toilet. Pro player Oliver “Skiter” Lepko peed in a bottle during an ongoing DOTA 2 tournament, citing the organizers’ rules against going to the toilet during a match....
New Battle for Dota 2 Fans Now Open at 1xBit
10.10.2022
Are you a big fan of playing Dota? Then you are in luck as 1xBit, in all their benevolence, is launching an exciting tournament called the Battle for the Aegis to appeal to your preference. With the Battle for the Aegis, it’s a journey of uncovering treasures with a horde of winnings...
GAIMIN Gladiators’ DOTA 2 Team Finish Top 4 in Stockholm Major
23.5.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Zug, Switzerland, 22nd May 2022: GAIMIN Gladiators are delighted to announce their DOTA 2 finish Top 4 in the ESL One Major in Stockholm. For the last 10 days, GAIMIN Gladiators’ DOTA 2 team have achieved unprecedented acclaim for their progression in the ESL One Stockholm...
A Story of Incredible Belief….. How GAIMIN Gladiator’s Acquired Team Tickles!
13.5.2022
It normally takes a newly formed esports team 12-18 months to gel and experience success, however GAIMIN Gladiator’s Dota 2 team only formed in January 2022 and they are already rising in the Dota 2 rankings, qualifying in the Top 14 for the ESL One DOTA 2 Major this May in Stockholm...
Ruský e-sportovec načrtl na obrazovku písmeno Z, celý jeho tým byl vyloučen
2.5.2022
Osmnáctiletý profesionál ve hře DOTA 2 Ivan „Pure“ Moskalenko během přestávky načrtl na obrazovku písmeno Z. Přestože, bylo okamžitě začmáráno a hráč se za své pochybení rychle omluvil, byl z probíhajícího turnaje vyloučen nejen on, ale i celý jeho tým
Russian DOTA 2 Player Dumped Over Alleged In-Game Support Of Ukraine Invasion
2.5.2022
An otherwise unremarkable (at least for the wider public) weekend of DOTA 2 action got a lot more controversial on Saturday when Virtus.pro’s Ivan ‘Pure’ Moskalenko was caught allegedly drawing a symbol of support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over the in-game minimap.Read more
GAIMIN Extends Its Active User Base Through the Success of Gaimin’s Esports Team – GAIMIN Gladiators
25.2.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Zug, Switzerland, 25th February 2022: GAIMIN Gladiators is pleased to announce its recently acquired DOTA 2 esports team has won the DOTA2 WEU Regional Finals, beating teams including Team Liquid, Nigma, Tundra and OG. The success of GAIMIN’s esports team generates significant...
Bots Propelled An Old Arcade Game To The Top Of The Steam Charts
30.11.2021
The top five played games on Steam are the usual suspects, online multiplayer games, with one unusual exception. As of this writing, Capcom Arcade Stadium is the third most popular game on the Steam charts. Read more
ResetEra Owner Cashes Out Gaming Forum For $4.5 Million
14.10.2021
Four years after the popular gaming forum, ResetEra, was born from the ashes of NeoGAF, it has been sold to a network of Swedish esports sites for an eye-popping $4.5 million. While the deal puts a price tag on the previously unquantifiable value of discussions like, “How did Blizzard get away with...
Valve Refunds All DOTA 2 Tourney Tickets Only 12 Days After Selling Them, Event No Longer To Have Live Audience
3.10.2021
Valve has canceled all plans to have a live audience at its large-scale DOTA 2 tournament, the International, as the number of covid cases in the host city of Bucharest, Romania continues to increase. The company also announced all tickets will be refunded immediately.Read more
Yikes, Top DOTA 2 Team Gets Covid A Week Before $40M Tourney
29.9.2021
Today, high-profile DOTA 2 team Team Aster announced via a Weibo post that several members of the team had tested positive for Covid-19, including three players. This news comes just eight days before the beginning of DOTA 2’s $40 million tournament, The International, which is scheduled...
Valve Finds A City Willing To Host DOTA 2's The International
8.7.2021
Already delayed from 2020, this year’s The International was supposed to take place in Sweden, until Sweden looked at the continuing global pandemic and said no thank you. So Valve had to scramble to find a city that would take the event, and in Bucharest, they’ve found it.Read more
Největší turnaj ve videohrách není sportovní událostí, rozhodli Švédové
22.6.2021
Desátý ročník prestižního turnaje v počítačové hře Dota 2 je v ohrožení. Na nejsledovanější videoherní událost roku se totiž ve Švédsku nevztahuje výjimka, umožňující pořádat profesionální sportovní utkání v době proticovidových opatření. Pořadatelé tak musí rychle najít náhradní řešení