dota

Official Site: DotA (Wikipedia Entry)
Studio: PlayDota.com
Launch Date: 2003
Genre: Fantasy MOBA
Business Model: F2P
Platform: PC, Mac

MMO Business Roundup: Warcraft modding, Valve source code leaks, and Nvidia goes good

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news! Warcraft modding: Polygon has an interesting explainer up on Blizzard's recent changes to its...

SuperData March 2020: Digital games spending sets achieves new highs thanks to COVID-19

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Back in in March, when SuperData was discussing February's monthly gaming revenue numbers, the analysis firm noted that COVID-19 hadn't yet had much impact...

Steam hits a new peak of 20 million concurrent users thanks to quarantines and social distancing

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It's very likely that global quarantines caused by the novel coronavirus have helped matters, but regardless of the reason, Steam concurrency numbers hit a...

MMO Business Roundup: Valve is shopping around Dota 2’s top tourney

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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

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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...
Not so much.

The MOP Up: Runes of Magic helps you catch up

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You might or might not be aware that last December, Runes of Magic rolled out new "catch up" servers that allow players to level...
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Blizzard limits Warcraft III: Reforged’s custom game scene as players complain over missing features

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We don't know how closely you've been following the launch of Warcraft III: Reforged, but it is not Happy Fun Times over in Blizzard's...

Steam’s top sellers of 2019 include several MMORPGs and MMOs

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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

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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...
Please love me again.

Fight or Kite: PvP games to play if you’re still boycotting Blizzard

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The past couple of weeks in the land of Blizzard have made for a wild ride. Some of us have extremely strong feelings and...
I got your thing.

Fight or Kite: Guild Wars 2 PvP – where good intentions and stubbornness meet

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Earlier this month, Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Zadorojny had an interview with PCGamesN in which he discussed a number of items - most...

Dota 2 issues decades-long bans against bad actors and account violators

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...
Artificial.

Valve pledges to fix Artifact’s ‘deep-rooted issues’ in attempt to salvage the game

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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...
Uh.

Artifact continues to hemorrhage players as fans plead for a sign from Valve

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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

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For those of us who are visual learners (or heck, bar chart fanatics - 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?

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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)...

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