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Valve have announced details of the next stop on their seasonal Majors tour, with Manila’s Mall of Asia playing host to a second Dota 2 tournament of the year. The Manila Major will take place over June 7-12, two months after ESL One Manila hosts another premier Dota tournament in …
Read More »Valve’s Dota Shanghai Major woes continue at the main event
After a remarkable group stages-for all the wrong reasons-Valve’s flagship Major series of Dota 2 tournaments has run into further delays and production issues. In an opening gambit last week, Majors host James “2GD” Harding made a series of jokes about disabled pornography and Chinese government censorship leading eventually to …
Read More »Final Dota 2 Major to be held in Manila
The last of three new Valve-hosted Dota 2 Major events is to be held this June in Manila, in the Philippines. With a few weeks still until the second Major begins in Shanghai, Valve made the announcement that the final event will be held in the South-East Asian region. The …
Read More »World Cyber Arena tournament suffers issues within opening hours, again
The Chinese multi-eSport event World Cyber Arena has suffered massive production delays within the opening hours in a repeat of last year’s fiasco. The tournament, organised by a division of the Yinchuan municipal government, began the group stages of 11 different games shortly before 6am GMT. However, after five hours …
Read More »ESL announces next $250,000 Dota event to be held in Philippines
ESL have declared that their next stop on the worldwide Dota 2 tour will be in the underserved region of South East Asia at Manila’s Mall of Asia Arena in the Phillippines. ESL One, to arrive in the country April 23-24, will bring with it a $250,000 prize pool and …
Read More »Dota 2 gets Fallout 4 crossover content
Bethesda and Valve have collaborated on a new Dota 2 announcer pack that will bring Fallout’s robot companion Mister Handy to the MOBA. Similar to theRick & Morty pack, the content replaces the voice of Dota 2’s default announcers with "the voice of everyone’s favorite robotic butler, Mister Handy.” The …
Read More »Valve details first of Dota 2 Majors series
Valve has announced the beginning of a series of Majors for Dota 2 to compliment its annual event The International, with the first to be hosted in Frankfurt in November. According to a post on theDota 2 blog, the event will take place at Festhalle Messe across six days of …
Read More »Calls for LoL team sanctions after owner involved in drug price gouge
The owner of League of Legends team Odyssey is behind the decision to inflate prices of Daraprim – a toxoplasmosis treatment for Malaria and AIDS – by more than 50 times. Martin Cerebral” Shkreli first set up the eSports organisation Team Imagine in 2014, and has since acquired North American …
Read More »Dota tournament The Defense returns on Danish TV
The original Dota 2 international tournament, The Defense, makes its return with a live television broadcast contract. The tournament, which began in 2011 organised by joinDOTA, has returned after a two year hiatus with a $75,000 base prize pool and televised games. Over ten weeks, Danish channel TV 2 ZULU …
Read More »Dota 2 adds Rick & Morty announcer pack
Valve and Adult Swim have partnered to bring the weird and wonderful antics of Rick & Morty to Dota 2. A post onAdult Swim’s Twitter accountrevealed the new Dota 2 announcer pack, with the $7.99 DLC available now on thegame’s store. The pack swaps out the ‘Default’ and ‘Mega-Kills’ announcers …
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