dota
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Steam Trolls Players With Bans Wrapped Up Like Christmas Presents
Steam has trolled DOTA players by issuing bans disguised as digital Christmas gifts. The gifts drop a “toxic lump of coal” and a permaban.
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Heroes Of Newerth, Once League Of Legends’ Rival, Has Shut Down
It was so long ago, and the space is now so thoroughly dominated by two games that it’s almost impossible remembering any other way things could be, but for a brief window of time the MOBA genre — basically any and every game that was copying WarCraft III’s DotA map — was a warzone.
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Steam Breaks New Record, With More Players Than Ever Before
As the unstoppable virus of Sundays continues its gruesome pandemic into a new week, it seems more humans than ever are turning to video games in order to survive. On the 10th Sunday since the outbreak began, January 2, Steam broke its concurrent user record, hitting just shy of 28 million.
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It’s So Nice To Play A MOBA Where No One Tells You To Have Sex With Your Mum
If there’s one thing that’s universally beloved about pretty much every Pokémon that isn’t Ryan Reynolds or Meowth, it’s that the weird little god-monsters generally can’t talk. Sure, sometimes you have to field an occasional “Pika” or “BLASTOISE!” from the peanut gallery, but the fact remains that no Pokémon — except, again, maybe Deadpool Pikachu…