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People "talk s**t" to Gabe Newell when he plays Dota 2, but he's okay with it
I consider myself pretty good at MOBAs . While my primary choice will always be League of Legends, I've played (and lost) a few Dota 2 games in my time, piloting heroes like Queen of Pain, Muerta, and Crystal Maiden to…
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Gabe Newell waxes poetic about his love for the Dota 2 community in a special message for The International: 'People talk s**t at me in chat' and tell him to uninstall the game on a weekly basis
The finals of The International 2025, the annual Dota 2 world championship tournament, are now underway, and to get things started on the right foot Valve boss Gabe Newell shared a special message with fans: After all t…
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The International 2025 Arrives
For four straight days, sixteen teams battled their way through an intense Road to the International: Playoffs. Now, Xtreme Gaming, BB Team, Team Tidebound, Heroic, Pvision, Nigma Galaxy, Tundra Esports, and Team Falcon…
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The International: Streams, Secret Shop, and More
Steam post imageRight now, millions of Dota players are already studiously constructing new Fantasy rosters, loyally repping favorite talent and player bundles, and endlessly serenading enemies and allies with the fresh…
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Dota 2 Update - 8/28/2025
We have added a Team Supporter's Club bundle for Yakutou Brothers, available for purchase now. As a reminder, 50% of all sales of Team, Talent, and Community bundles go to the contributor and 30% go to the prize pool of…
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Dota 2 Update - 08/22/2025
Over the last few days we've addressed the following issues: Fixed emoticons from previous fan content bundles that were supposed to be permanent being unavailable Fixed basic talent stickers all looking like a specific…
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The International: Bundles and Predictions
The International Team and Talent Bundles The International draws near: All sixteen teams are set to head to Germany, and we've just now announced the full on-screen talent roster in-game. Like Dota itself, The Internat…
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Dota 2 Update - 08/08/2025
Over the last few days we've addressed the following issues: Ctrl+Alt pinging enemy abilities or items will now display that the ability or item could be on cooldown Fixed an issue with quickbuy where, if a stackable it…
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Quartero, Dota 2’s new dealer of free hats, is a nice chap who surely won’t kill me and sell my skin
Valve, perhaps newly wary of financial transactions after being put over a barrel by Steam’s payment processors , have elected to give away a bunch of Dota 2 cosmetics for free – and are employing the kindliest, definit…
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Quartero's Curios
In addition to gameplay patch 7.39d, today we're shipping a new dashboard feature in Dota. For years now, outside of events, the dashboard's mostly just shown the results of your last match. We crunched the math on this…
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Dota 2 system requirements
Dota 2, or Defense of the Ancients 2 if you're a long-time fan, is one of the oldest MOBA games still alive and kicking today, thanks to e-sports events and an active player base. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Dota 2 syst…
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7.39c Gameplay Patch
Patch 7.39c is out now and you can check out the patch notes here. In addition, over the last few days we've addressed the following issues: Allow items which are locked for combining to be delivered by the courier Fixe…
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7.39b Gameplay Patch
Patch 7.39b is out now and you can check out the patch notes here. In addition, over the last few days we've addressed the following issues: Fixed a number of miscellaneous client and server crashes Fixed various crashe…
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The Dota 2 7.39 patch brings hero reworks and a serious quality-of-life upgrade
The Dota 2 Spring Forward update is here, as Valve's second-largest free Steam game gets a fresh look courtesy of a major gameplay overhaul, hero reworks, new cosmetics, and a large chunk of quality-of-life improvements…
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Dota Springs Forward
If you ask people their favorite season, nobody picks Spring. Why? Because Spring is terrible. It's too warm to ski, too cold to swim, it rains a lot, and there aren't even any free-candy monster holidays like you get i…
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Dota 2 Short Film Contest 2025
For the last ten years, we've had the pleasure of watching a veritable parade of talented Dota fans pour their hearts into crafting short film tributes to the community and the game we all love. A select number of those…
