dota

  • Blizzard Owns Your Custom Warcraft 3: Reforged Games

    Nathan Grayson

    20

    It is a fact somewhat lost to time”though certainly not one Blizzard will ever forget”that the eternally enduring MOBA genre got its start in Blizzard games. Riot and Valve, however, ended up reaping the rewards of seeds that were sown by custom game-makers in StarCraft and Warcraft 3. After a 2012 lawsuit, Valve even got…

  • Dota Underlords Is Finally Getting Underlords

    Nathan Grayson

    At this point, I have spent nearly 50 hours with Dota Underlords. I still do not know what an Underlord is. This is because Valve’s early-access auto battler still does not contain its shadowy namesakes. In a matter of weeks, however, that’s going to change.

  • I Don’t Know Where To Put My Heroes

    Zack Zwiezen

    2

    DOTA Underlords is Valve’s stab at the auto-battler genre. In Underlords, just like in Auto Chess and Teamfight Tactics, you place heroes you buy on a board and then they attack other heroes and creatures. And while I understand the basic rules and mechanics of the genre, I still have no idea where to place…

  • Valve Is Making Its Own Version Of Dota Auto Chess

    Nathan Grayson

    19

    Late last year, Valve launched the collectible card game Artifact, a spinoff of Dota 2. It flopped so hard that Valve is now revamping it from the ground up. Earlier this year, Dota’s community beat Valve at its own game, creating Dota Auto Chess, a similarly strategic spin-off that, unlike Artifact, has become one of…