defense of the ancients
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Valve Quietly Announces Super-Secret Hero Shooter Deadlock Months After People Started Playing It
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. “Deadlock is a multiplayer game in early development,” reads Valve’s official description.…
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Valve Is Ditching Battle Passes Since Most Players ‘Never Buy’ One
Despite being successful in other games, Valve has struggled to get players to buy a Dota 2 battle pass. So, they’re going away.
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Valve Refunds All DOTA 2 Tourney Tickets Only 12 Days After Selling Them, Event No Longer To Have Live Audience
Valve has cancelled 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.
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DOTA 2’s The International Is Probably Moving Because Sweden Doesn’t Think Esports Are Sports
If it wasn’t for the global Covid pandemic, DOTA 2’s big championship, The International, would have been held in Sweden in 2020. Now, in 2021, it’s not going to be held in Sweden again, but this time for more administrative reasons.