After all, Blizzard created Warcraft 3 and then Valve’s Dota 2 and Riot’s League of Legends went on to become huge successes based on the Warcraft 3 custom game.

Creating DotA also required a lot of under-the-hood development and new assets, but Morton says the goal is for mods to work in the same way in Warcraft III: Reforged.

Blizzard has also released at least one Warcraft property since 2018, whether it's an expansion, a re-release, or a remaster.

Warcraft 3 Auto Chess, as the version of the game has been dubbed, is reportedly a mod of a mod, ... As Dota grew into Dota 2, Valve was happy to allow for fan-made custom games, ...

Warcraft III’s editor was revolutionary. ... Building off DOTA’s gameplay, League of Legends and Dota 2 would go on to become some of the most popular games in the world.

A modder managed to bring the old Warcraft 3 eul map into Dota 2's Source engine. Dota modder Arsjac has ported eul 3.76d, one of the very early Dota maps in Warcraft 3, into Dota 2.

It’s been about two weeks now since Dota 2’s workshop tools expanded to allow custom game creation. While the tools are still in alpha, fans are already hard at work tinkering with the game that ...

After a 2012 lawsuit, Valve even got to keep the “Dota” name that originally took root in Warcraft 3. With Warcraft 3: Reforged, it seems that Blizzard is not keen on allowing history to ...

With the release of Warcraft 3 in 2003, a keen modder known by the handle Eul began development on a similar map that would support up to 10 players, which he called Defense of the Ancients (DOTA).

Warcraft 3: Reforged just got a January release date. ... and design and helped spawn the mods that would eventually allow for the entire MOBA scene of League of Legends and DOTA to take off.

Warcraft 3: Reforged came out yesterday, and fans are not happy. This is a bit more complicated than your run-of-the-mill “people are angry on the internet” situation, however. That’s ...