CultureNewsCultureNewsValve Quietly Announces Super-Secret Hero Shooter Deadlock Months After People Started Playing ItThe 6v6 MOBA-like is a bold stab at a competitive genreByEthan GachPublishedAugust 26, 2024
CultureNewsCultureNewsValve Made A DOTA Fighting Game And It's Out NowSleet Fighter is basically a new Valve game hiding inside the Half-Life studio's popular MOBAByZack ZwiezenPublishedJuly 10, 2024
CultureNewsCultureNewsValve's New Hero Shooter Is Leaking All Over The Place And Fans Are ConfusedDeadlock looks to be a 6v6 MOBA-like third-person character shooter and... that's cool, I guessByZack ZwiezenPublishedMay 22, 2024
CultureNewsCultureNewsSteam Trolls Players With Bans Wrapped Up Like Christmas PresentsValve goes full Grinch-mode on unsuspecting Dota 2 cheatersByEthan GachPublishedDecember 15, 2023
CultureNewsCultureNewsValve Is Ditching Battle Passes Since Most Players ‘Never Buy’ OneFuture content updates for Dota 2 won’t be designed around the game’s yearly battle passByZack ZwiezenPublishedJune 20, 2023
CultureNewsCultureNewsValve Traps And Bans 40,000 Cheaters In Ingenious WayThe Steam company used extraneous game code to expose Dota 2 cheatersByEthan GachPublishedFebruary 23, 2023
CultureNewsCultureNewsHeroes Of Newerth, Once League Of Legends' Rival, Has Shut DownMaybe there's a universe out there where HoN has an animated series and fashion collabsByLuke PlunkettPublishedJune 20, 2022
CultureNewsCultureNewsRussian DOTA 2 Player Dumped Over Alleged In-Game Support Of Ukraine InvasionIvan 'Pure' Moskalenko drew a 'Z' and got his entire team disqualifiedByLuke PlunkettPublishedMay 1, 2022
CultureNewsCultureNewsLost Ark Sets New Concurrent Player Record On Steam, With Over 1.3 Million Online [Update]The ARPG from Smilegate and Amazon has over 1 million players on Steam less than 48 hours after launchByZack ZwiezenPublishedFebruary 12, 2022
CultureNewsCultureNewsSteam Breaks New Record, With More Players Than Ever BeforeThe number of concurrent users hits a new all-time highByJohn WalkerPublishedJanuary 3, 2022
CultureNewsCultureNewsValve Refunds All DOTA 2 Tourney Tickets Only 12 Days After Selling Them, Event No Longer To Have Live AudienceThe International was to have a large crowd in Romania, but an increase in covid cases has ended these plansByZack ZwiezenPublishedOctober 3, 2021
EsportsEsportsYikes, Top DOTA 2 Team Gets Covid A Week Before $40M TourneyThree of Team Aster’s five players, plus their coach, have tested positiveByRenata PricePublishedSeptember 29, 2021
CultureNewsCultureNewsValve Finds A City Willing To Host DOTA 2's The InternationalAfter Sweden refused to allow the tournament to take place, it's heading to Romania insteadByLuke PlunkettPublishedJuly 8, 2021
CultureNewsCultureNewsDOTA 2's The International Is Probably Moving Because Sweden Doesn't Think Esports Are SportsThe rulings mean esports events don't enjoy the same exemptions from Covid restrictions that actual sports doByLuke PlunkettPublishedJune 21, 2021
CultureCultureReport: Netflix Looking To Hire Video Game ExecutiveNetflix, the streaming service responsible for episodic masterworks like Selling Sunset and Too Hot To Handle, is…ByAri NotisPublishedMay 21, 2021
CultureCultureValve's Card Game Is Officially DeadArtifact has now failed twice. After a messy launch and a failed attempt to reboot it last year, Valve announced…ByEthan GachPublishedMarch 4, 2021
CultureCultureValve & Netflix Are Making A DOTA AnimeSure, why not?ByLuke PlunkettPublishedFebruary 16, 2021
CultureCultureChina's Steam Only Has 53 GamesSteam is now available in China, and if you thought that would give Chinese gamers instant access to the weird,…ByLuke PlunkettPublishedFebruary 9, 2021
CultureCultureAuto Chess Is Getting a MOBA, Continuing the Eternal CycleThe history of the MOBA genre is one of mods and iteration. Its most popular and still-standing games today are the…ByEric Van AllenPublishedJanuary 18, 2021
CultureCultureDota 2's New Summer Battle Pass Adds Female Anti-Mage, Guilds, And MoreValve unveiled Dota 2's long-awaited summer battle pass today and it’s full of stuff to get even lapsed players like…ByEthan GachPublishedMay 25, 2020