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TI News: Livestreams, Viewing Parties, and The Secret Shop
The Road to The International is literally right around the metaphorical corner, and that means a lot of cool and exciting stuff is revving to life. There are more ways than ever to enjoy the matches, meet new people, a…
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Get Ready For Group Stage
The Road to The International's Group Stage weekend officially starts this Thursday at 10am PST. Players have been arriving in Seattle all week, preparing themselves for what promises to be an exciting — and with Group…
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The International 2023 Talent Bundles
This year’s talent has officially been announced. Where? In the “Talent” tab of the Compendium. Are you back? Great. We’re assuming you went and stared at the portraits for a while and eventually thought to yourself “St…
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7.34d Gameplay Patch
Patch 7.34d is out now. You can check the notes here. Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues: Fixed an area above the Radiant fountain that heroes could get stuck in Fixed Player Perspective not…
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The International 2023 Celebration Update
We're excited to release the International Compendium for The International 2023. Because this is a new shape to previous years’ Compendiums, we wanted to walk you through what it is, how it works, and why we built it.…
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Community Events at The International
Invitations have been sent, plane tickets have been reserved, and our old friends the soundproof booths are undergoing their final maintenance and inspections: In just a few short weeks the first teams arrive in Seattle…
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Dota 2 Workshop Fall Call-to-Arms
Between emoji-encoded patch notes, our 10-Year Anniversary celebration, and massive updates to Dota's Armory and behavior system — and of course The International rapidly approaching — there's a lot happening both in an…
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The Dota Pro Circuit
We started the Dota Pro Circuit in 2017 to answer a question that was coming up more and more frequently: How do you earn an invite to The International? Up until then, invitations were driven by a handful of regional q…
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Between the Lanes: The Sound (Proof Booths) of Silence
Welcome back to Between the Lanes, a blog feature where we let members of our development team walk through some of the challenges, bugfixes, and occasional happy accidents we encounter while working on a game as unique…
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7.34c Gameplay Patch
Patch 7.34c is out now. You can check the notes here. Oracle saw too far into the future. That is now fixed. Over the last few days we've addressed several gameplay issues: Fixed an issue where using Armlet could lead t…
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10th Anniversary Event Extended
We know what you’re thinking: You’ve only got three treasures remaining to get all the 10th Anniversary Rewards … except you’ve been at three treasures remaining for days now. There’s no end in sight. You’ve played core…
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Dota 2 Update - 9/1/2023
Since releasing The Summer Client Update we've addressed a number of issues: Fixed a bug that would appear to allow you to commend/dislike the same player multiple times in postgame Fixed an issue that would sometimes c…
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Smurfing is Not Welcome in Dota
Today, we permanently banned 90,000 smurf accounts that have been active over the last few months. Smurf accounts are alternate accounts used by players to avoid playing at the correct MMR, to abandon games, to cheat, t…
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The Summer Client Update
New Player Behavior System, New Rendering Features, and New Armory Summer is hurtling toward its inevitable, pumpkin spiced end, and we’re seeing it off in style with a whole bunch of pretty sweet quality of life improv…
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The International 2023 Ticket Sales
The International is fast approaching, and for those of you planning on going, we wanted to give you some important dates so you can start planning your trip. Tickets to join the audience live at The International 2023…
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10-Year Anniversary Celebration
There are some elders who whisper that the Ancients have always existed, and always will exist -- unknowable eldritch tentacle-shards of a mad moon, outside of time, doomed to battle forever. Other elders eyeball it at…
