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Screenshots of a hero shooter said to be in development at Valve, have leaked. This comes shortly after the first details on the game were shared online, potentially revealing its name: Deadlock.

Supergiant's first sequel, Hades 2, was the second biggest seller on Steam last week.

Medieval strategy game Manor Lords has started life at second place on Steam.

During the big MOBA boom, Smite stood out primarily for its unique perspective. Instead of the traditional isometric view that games like League of Legends and DOTA 2 used, Smite was played from a more traditional third-person point of view. This made it far more approachable than its competitors, and it has enjoyed a loyal fan base for the last decade. Despite constant updates and new additions, fans have been ready for a more substantial upgrade to the game, and we will soon have it when Smite 2 arrives sometime soon. However, alpha tests are already underway and you can join in if you want to be one of the first to jump into the fray.

Amazon's Fallout TV show has helped the commercial performance of the franchise's two most recent entries.

Arrowhead Studios' wildly popular Helldivers 2 has spent a second week at the No.1 spot on Steam.

League of Legends is the most popular MOBA game of all time, and considering the number of people who actively play the game, it’s no wonder that its revenue is usually reported in the billions.

One Dota 2 pro player was seemingly on Valve’s naughty list, having been gifted a chunk of coal and a permanent ban while livestreaming. 

Santa Gaben has been keeping track of Dota 2 players (not while they’re sleeping, Valve assures us) on his naughty or nice list and those who made the former have received a ‘gift’ from Valve in the form of a “Highly Toxic” lump of coal – and a ban to go with it.

Some Dota 2 players are receiving a special gift from Valve as part of the game’s current Frostivus holiday event: a thoughtful, gift-wrapped, permanent ban from playing Dota 2.

Dota 2 is on a Godlike streak with its latest ban wave, which has arrived courtesy of Frostivus 2023 and already banned tens of thousands of smurf accounts.

Valve's making a list, and checking it twice; it's gonna find out who's naughty and nice. And if you happen to be on its Naughty List — which pretty much applies to any one of the «thousands» of DOTA 2 players now identified as being dirty, filthy cheaters — you can expect a cheerfully gift-wrapped lump of toxic coal and a permanent ban in your stocking as your festive treat for 2023.

Valve is channeling its inner Santa Claus with a Naughty & Nice List that includes a jolly festive update for Dota 2's nice players and a permaban for the tens of thousands of naughty players and smurf accounts. 

It's ten days to Christmas, and you know what that means: It's time for the world's most famous jolly, bearded man to draw up naughty and nice lists, handing out rewards to the latter and pitiless justice to the former. That's right, Gabe Newell is sticking it to Dota 2 cheats once again.

We’ve seen a number of ingenious methods of banning naughty players from video games over the years, but this latest attempt from Valve may be the funniest yet.

League of Legends' new champion Hwei is a human mage designed to be played in the mid-lane, and he has 10 different spells that take more than one button press to cast. If you happen to be a Dota 2 fan that might sound a little familiar, as Invoker—a wizard dating all the way back to Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients—basically does the same thing.

Those of you that were strapped into the back of your parents car when you were younger and taken on the yearly family road trip will remember a marketing technique as old as time itself. Take a regular everyday object, create an obnoxiously large model of one, and plaster billboards everywhere claiming it to be the «world's biggest x». Yes, it's a cheap stunt and yes, it was always somewhat disappointing, but you still begged your family to pull over, didn't you?

Dota 2’s The International is the game’s eSport competition that’s been going since 2011. For the first few years, developer Valve funded the prize pool that pro teams would compete for, roughly $1.6 million to $3 million.

It’s fall already, and Dota 2 The International 12 is just around the corner. As always, Valve is ‘crowdfunding’ the tournament’s prize pool, but with the battle pass system gone and the divisive Compendium put in its place, the jackpot isn’t looking too healthy this time around.

The International (TI) 2023, Valve’s annual Dota 2 eSports competition kicks off in early October, but something strange is happening with the prize pool. The prize pool for TI has grown every year since it started in 2011, but 2023 looks to offer pros the lowest prize pool to compete for in almost a decade.

Valve's smash hit MOBA Dota 2 has returned to the Steam Top Ten in the wake of its massive Summer client update.

Valve has announced that it's on the hunt for Smurf accounts and their associated main accounts. 

Valve has banned 90,000 Dota 2 smurf accounts, and will wipe out their associated main accounts, too, if they continue to spawn smurfs to bypass Valve's matchmaking system.

Valve's been going pretty hard on Dota 2 this year, and the latest is targeting those who start fresh accounts in the free-to-play game so that they can play easy games and stomp rookies. Valve has also traced the accounts back to their main accounts, and says that from now on «a main account found associated with a smurf account could result in a wide range of punishments, from temporary adjustments to behavior scores to permanent account bans.»

Earlier this week, Dota 2's summer update was released and included new tools for filtering toxic and unwanted players fromy our matches. Now Valve have taken an extra step of their own by declaring that "smurfing is not welcome in Dota," and permanently banning 90,000 accounts involved in the practice

Dota 2 summer update is out now, and among its many additions are several designed to make "Dota a better place to play, together." It includes a "dislike" button that lets you filter out people you'd rather not play with in future, a new reporting system, real-time review of toxic chat, and more.

Valve has outlined the changes coming to DOTA 2 in its 2023 Summer Client Update.

It’s no secret that Dota 2 is a pretty confusing game – as a League of Legends player, it’s LoL on steroids. If you thought the MOBA couldn’t get any more complex, though, Valve has released the latest round of Dota 2 patch notes in emoji form – yes, seriously, the 7.34 update is fully written in emojis.

The new Dota 2 7.34 update is here and the patch notes detail a number of changes that are worth knowing about.

New Dota 2 patch notes dropped today, and they're a little different than most, because they've been rendered entirely in emojis. That makes them very difficult to read, but it hasn't deterred the Dota 2 community, which has whipped up a 55-page document that translates the whole thing.

PC giant Valve is reportedly putting a stop to Dota Workshop projects having monetisation options.

As noted by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik, Valve has requested that all Dota 2 custom game makers cease real-money monetization in their creations by August 17. A number of popular modes for the juggernaut MOBA have already gone offline in response.

Dota 2 is a huge game with hundreds of characters, played by millions of people every day, so it’s not too surprising that Dota 2 bugs pop up from time to time. Valve is usually pretty good at staying on top of them, but some are more dramatic than others. One of the most fun and explosive slip-ups to make its way into the MOBA this year is the Dota 2 Techies Sticky Bomb bug, and now the team explains how it came about.