Humpday Bump: Dethroned WoW Edition

Humpday Bump: Dethroned WoW Edition

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On: 10 Apr

Well it’s been brewing for a while now but it appears as though the MOBA’s which were originally fringe titles for the competitive multiplayer obsessed have dethroned World of Warcraft as the world’s most played game. This is interesting for many reasons, the most obvious being that if it wasn’t for Blizzard and their RTS [...]

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YouTube Tuesday: Dota 2 Team Liquid Late-Game Comeback

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On: 26 Feb

I normally don’t like posting Dota 2 videos on YouTube Tuesday because if you’re a fan you’ve probably already seen it and if not they tend to be a bit chaotic. However, after watching last night’s epic final game from the Defense 3 between Team Liquid and Mousesports I just had to share it. It [...]

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YouTube Tuesday: Great E-Sports Moment Edition

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News On: 04 Sep

Every Tuesday I like to take some time to focus on the hardworking and dedicated “YouTubers” within the gaming community. This week features an amazing moment from last week’s Dota 2 International tournament. Everyone loves a good comeback; having played Dota, LoL, and Dota 2 I can say that it isn’t uncommon to see a [...]

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IG Wins Dota 2 International 2012

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On: 03 Sep

Looks like the Chinese Dota 2 team Invictus Gaming are the ones taking home The International’s million dollar grand prize, defeating Na’vi three games to one in yesterdays grand final. Even though they won 3-1 it wasn’t a one-sided fight. The teams split the first two games, each winning against the other handedly. The last [...]

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Friday Run-Down: Good-Bye Nintendo Power Edition

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 24 Aug

Usually I keep put a bunch of news in the Humpday Bump, but seeing as there wasn’t one this week I figured the next best place was in an end of the week rundown. This was kind of a sad week in gaming, especially if you grew up testing codes and secrets found in your [...]

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Valve Allowed to use Dota Name, Blizzard Backpedals

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On: 14 May

Back in February I reported on the legal skirmish between Blizzard and Valve over the use of the name Dota in Valve’s upcoming Dota 2. Well it appears as if the battle is over, and even though Blizzard’s press release says the agreement was mutual, it’s pretty clear Valve came out on top as they’re [...]

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Gabe Newell says Dota 2 will be Free-to-play, Sort Of

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On: 20 Apr

I’m going to start by saying it was pretty obvious that Dota 2 was going to be free-to-play in some form. I even wrote a piece a month ago that outlined why it would be silly for them not to. Leave it to Valve however to add some sort of twist to the current free-to-play [...]

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Dota 2 Might be Going with Free-to-Play Model

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On: 22 Mar

While it seems silly to think that they wouldn’t, Valve still hasn’t officially announced that Dota 2 will be free to play, but it is looking more and more likely as information regarding its development is announced. So while Dota 2’s main competitors Dota, League of Legends, and Heroes of Newerth are all now, or [...]

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In Court, Blizzard to ‘Push All Mid’ Against Valve Over Dota

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News, PC On: 11 Feb

Well it’s official, Joystiq and Kotaku are both reporting today that Blizzard is taking Valve to court over the use of the name Dota in Valve’s upcoming Dota 2. This is a confusing issue, seeing as Blizzard didn’t really develop Dota, and one of the people who did, Icefrog, now works for Valve. This is [...]

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DOTA 2 Release Date Pushed Earlier: Valve Looking To Launch DOTA 2 “As Soon As Possible”

Posted By: Andy Codina In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On: 26 Sep

After Blizzard Entertainment scrapped their Starcraft II follow-up to the popular Warcraft III mod – Defense of the Ancients, Valve’s own full size take on the genre and successor to the mod is going full steam ahead. The change of plans to the release of DOTA 2 was announced earlier today on Valve’s official DOTA [...]

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Valve Announces DOTA 2 Coming to PC and Mac 2011

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Gaming News On: 13 Oct

Today, Valve has announced the much anticipated DotA 2 which is said to be the most played game in the world! However, the press release on the game was short and we don’t have an lot of details but we know for sure in 2011 you will be able to own it on PC and [...]

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