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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Gamescom 2011 has served as a coming-out party of sorts for Valve’s ...

Seeing the carries of the three strongest Chinese teams, iG, LGD and DK, among the nominees this year surely won't come as a surprise to many. In fact it is likely that Lio 'Sylar' Jiajun, Chen 'Zhou' ...

Gabe Newell, founder of Valve, has confirmed that DOTA 2 will be released in 2012 at the earliest. Gabe Newell has been quoted saying: “We’ll just go into progressively wider and wider distribution. I ...

If there’s any question that the future of PC gaming, and perhaps of all gaming (mobile has embraced it as well), is free-to-play. Valve Software, which is a leader in digital distribution with Steam, ...

The International, Valve's annual Dota 2 eSports tournament, was held during PAX Prime 2012 in Seattle over the weekend, with teams battling over $1.6 million in cash payouts. The International, Valve ...

The Dota 2 teams have gained more than $2,000,000 prize money in the year 2012. Though The International 2 of course was the dominating tournament, $470,000 came from non-Valve tournaments. Invictus ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. When the second annual The International tournament for Dota 2 kicks ...

The DOTA 2 beta is being played by more people than Skyrim and Counter-Strike: Source according to the latest Steam Stats. PC Gamer made the discovery that Valve’s game, which isn’t even fully ...

2013 was a great year for Twitch. 45 million viewers watched 12 billion minutes of video, that's more than double the number of users and amount of viewing time than 2012. The biggest winner of last ...

Valve has released a short film chronicling the events of this year's major DOTA 2 tournament, The International, which carried a $1 million grand prize. If you've never really understood eSports and ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Gabe Newell, founder and all-round awesome sauce man at Valve has confirmed that DOTA 2 will not see the light of day until 2012 at the earliest. Right now ...