Official Site:Â Dota 2
Studio:Â Valve
Launch Date:Â July 9, 2013
Genre:Â Fantasy MOBA
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Mac
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MMO Business Roundup: Valve is shopping around Dota 2’s top tourney
Time for another quick roundup of a bunch of MMO-adjacent businessy stories that were drowning in our busy Thursday newsroom!
The International: Valve is raising...
Visions of N’Zoth boosted World of Warcraft subs, but it’s lost tons since WoW Classic’s 2019 peak
SuperData's January 2020 games industry revenue rankings are up, with only mild shakeups since December 2019. On the PC side, Red Dead Redemption 2 dropped...
The MOP Up: Runes of Magic helps you catch up
You might or might not be aware that last December, Runes of Magic rolled out new "catch up" servers that allow players to level...
Steam’s top sellers of 2019 include several MMORPGs and MMOs
Steam's top sellers list for 2019 is out, and sitting prominently among the big money makers for the digital storefront are a number of...
SuperData October 2019: League of Legends is back on top as console and PC trend downward
SuperData's October 2019 global revenue report on the video game industry is up today, and if you were hoping the PC and console industry...
Fight or Kite: PvP games to play if you’re still boycotting Blizzard
The past couple of weeks in the land of Blizzard have made for a wild ride. Some of us have extremely strong feelings and...
Dota 2 issues decades-long bans against bad actors and account violators
As I understand it, most MOBAs are unfriendly places, especially the larger ones like Dota 2. In an announcement made by Valve in a...
Not So Massively: How unrealistic expectations hobbled Heroes of the Storm
I find myself in the odd position of feeling compelled to both defend and criticize Heroes of the Storm. The game's taken a huge...
SuperData May 2019: Overwatch returns to the top 10 as battle royales duke it out
We're nearing the end of June, and you know what that means: It's time for SuperData to peek back at the global revenue for...
SuperData April 2019: WoW and Apex Legends depart the revenue rankings, Hearthstone re-enters
Oh hey there Superdata, is it time for another run-down of who's screwing up in the games industry this month and who's making money...
Dota 2 paywalls its Avoid Player feature by including it with its Battle Pass
The nature of the beast in team-based competitive games is this awful notion that frustration with how a match plays out gives one carte...
Valve pledges to fix Artifact’s ‘deep-rooted issues’ in attempt to salvage the game
Things haven't been going particularly great for Artifact. Valve's digital card game, which launched in November of last year, has been rapidly hemorrhaging players...
Artifact continues to hemorrhage players as fans plead for a sign from Valve
Hey, let's talk about Artifact! When last we checked in with Valve's digital card game (the first new game from the studio since Dota...
Watch the rise and fall of the most popular Steam games of the last four years
For those of us who are visual learners (or heck, bar chart fanatics -Â and you know who you are), there's an interesting animated gif...
The Daily Grind: Would you play Overwatch if it had a PvE or co-op mode?
Overwatch had a strange 2018. While Blizzard expanded the game's developer team last year, it also put out less content (and more repeat content)...
2018 was the year of Fortnite and free-to-play games, according to Superdata research
"2018 was the biggest year for digital games and interactive entertainment. Ever." So sayeth gaming-trend research company Superdata, which recently published its year-in-review data...
There are no Blizzard games in the November 2018 SuperData games revenue ranking, not even WoW
I did a little double-take when I read SuperData's November 2018 games industry revenue ranking piece today, and not because the title and intro...
Valve bans a toxic Dota 2 pro after his team takes insufficient action
Herein lies the problem for Valve running Dota 2: The company doesn't want to actually provide any rules or guidelines or moderation for the game's...
Perfect World Entertainment confirms Steam China deal
Earlier this year, we reported on the surprise announcement that Perfect World Entertainment was in talks with Valve to bring Steam into China. It's...
Valve’s Artifact is live to ‘reimagine’ the online TCG genre
Trading card game fans know the name Richard Garfield well. The man created the legendary Magic: The Gathering back in the early 1990s, but...
