Valve's initial announcement of Dota 2 was a surprise to some. It's a game set in a high fantasy world, following on from a Warcraft III mod, and represents a style of game Valve's never really ...

This is a balancing system that could only exist in a game where everybody has access to all heroes, and Valve wisely obliges. All of Dota 2, including its growing cast of 102 characters ...

The inspiration for the two logos is rather divergent. Apple’s News app is going for a stylized “N” whereas the Dota 2 mark is a representation of the one and only map on which the game is ...

Wondering how to play Dota 2? Valve's MOBA is notoriously one of the most complex games in existence, but don't let that put you off. No, really – you don't need to know the intricacies of each ...

Legendary Chinese esports org Vici Gaming has returned to Dota 2 almost two full years after their last competition.

The AI has been trained using a technique called “deep reinforced learning” which has seen the AI play over 45,000 years-worth of Dota 2 in just 10 months. This training seems to have paid off ...

Valve has teased this year's Compendium, but Dota 2 fans, fed up with the long wait for information, have taken drastic measures on the game's subreddit. The chronicle seems to have begun with a ...