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Almost every year, Valve releases an event celebrating the winter and the holidays in Dota 2. This year, the Frosthaven 2018 event started on December 19th. The event started alongside the release of Rubick Arcana. It is one of the best Arcanas in the game and has an excellent progression system. There is also a new game mode, which will see a group of five players defend the ancient from incoming creeps. The FrostHaven update was scheduled to end on January 3rd. However,

Valve has added a Battle Royale mode to Counter-Strike with their latest Danger Zone Update. The Update which saw the Counter-Strike Social twitter account build up hype for around two days arrived on Thursday. With this update, Valve also joins the popular Battle Royale genre with its classic game Counter-Strike. The Danger Zone update will see sixteen players [ up to a maximum of eighteen ] compete in a match. The matches last for ten minutes long and have multiple missions and side-quests

The Creator of Fortnite, Epic Games has announced its very own Games store. The 'Epic Games Store' will be a place for developers to publish their games and an alternative to Valve's Steam. For now, the Epic Games Store takes a 12% cut, allowing developers to take an 88% cut. This is in stark contrast to Valve's 30% cut from the developers. The case of Games stores taking a huge cut of the developers' earnings is an issue in the recent months. Epic

Valve has finally broken its silence and released a public statement on the Chongqing Major - TNC Predator controversy. After weeks of stoic silence from the game developer Valve's statement could not come any later. The statement is a harsh truth that TNC Predator is not the victim here. The organization has tried to sway public opinion in their favour despite having an open communication line with the organizers and Valve. Their attempts at covering up the incident and later swaying public opinion

The current DPC season has only five Dota 2 Majors and Minors at any given point in time. As such the importance of each Major has definitely increased many times. The prize pool involved in a Dota 2 Minor and the accompanying DPC points is a huge incentive for any team. The winner of the Dota 2 Minor also gets an invitation to the upcoming Major. In one such case, we have a Chinese team with the name Zeus Gaming attempting to qualify

ESL has issued invited to Alliance and Team Aster for their upcoming flagship event, ESL One Katowice 2019. The tournament will take place from 19th February 2019 till the 24th of the same month. It will take place at the Spodek Arena in Katowice and feature a prize pool of $300,000. ESL will not host any Dota 2 Majors for the current DPC season. However, they are not exiting the Dota 2 scene and have already hosted a few events for the game.

Valve has pushed a new update to Dota 2 and its release comes in the form of 7.20d. The latest update brings about multiple changes to the gameplay and several heroes as well. Most importantly, Valve has brought about changes to the movement speeds and they are critical to the influence of certain heroes. Here are the changes in 7.20 d as well as how they might affect a normal game of Dota 2. Movement Speed Changes Melee heroes below 300 base movement

Team liquid player, Kuro "KuroKy" Salehi Takhasomi is the first Dota 2 player to play all 116 heroes competitively. KuroKy is a veteran in Dota 2, coming into the game as soon as it was released. Over his career, KuroKy has played in several well-known organisations such a Natus Vincere, Virtus Pro and now Team Liquid. https://twitter.com/TeamLiquid/status/1068560102398005248 He was on a mission since March of this year, when he took over the title of most-played heroes from EG's Fear. Team liquid secured a

The Chongqing Major qualifiers are currently underway in different regions of the World. Over the past few days, we have seen the culmination of South America, the CIS as well as the South East Asia Qualifiers. Each of these regions will have a total of two teams qualifying to the Chongqing Major in China. The South American qualifiers saw Test123 and Pain Gaming emerge as the victors of the qualifiers. Test123 managed to defeat Pain Gaming in the Upper Bracket finals and secure

The Dota 2 scene has been embroiled in a controversy recently. Two professional players [ Skem and Kuku ] using racial terms in pub matches and in a competitive match. The derogatory term with racial overtones is specific to a particular trait of the Chinese people. As such it was only right that the Chinese community was up in arms over this usage. We saw multiple teams, professional Chinese players, as well as Perfect World, join the chorus demanding action. Naturally, Valve takes

Valve recently released the much-awaited 7.20 update. The new update brought changes to the map, the economy and the way Experience and the Gold Bounty works. In addition to these changes, the majority of the heroes received underwent changes. As with any big update, there were a few more changes required. Valve has released a new update [ titled 7.20b ] which provides for further changes and balances to the game. Here are the changes added in 7.20b : Meepo Agility gain reduced

The Dota Pro Circuit is Valve's attempt at ensuring a stable and viable esports scene for the game. While last year's DPC season did see a few glitches and some logistical problems, this year seems different. There are five Dota 2 Majors and Minors for the current DPC season. They are all listed on the official Dota Pro Circuit page here. The first Dota 2 Major, The Kuala Lumpur Major is currently underway. There are only three teams remaining, Team Secret, Virtus Pro

The Kuala Lumpur Major is still underway and the top teams are competing in the final few matches. Teams like Team Secret, Virtus Pro, PSG.LGD still in the fray for the first Dota 2 Major. The Major is already proving to be an exciting battle-ground for the best teams in the world. This is the last Major with the current Dota 2 Patch [ 7.19] and the meta will drastically shift in a few weeks. Tournament organiser Weplay has announced a premier event

After the storm surrounding the Dota 2 community due to a few seemingly racist comments, Valve has released an official statement. In the statement, Valve advises all professional players to keep a check on their language, even if they want to say it in jest. Being a professional player means that every word has an influence on tens of thousands of fans. It is important for the players to behave themselves on a public forum. Valve's statement. You can read the entire statement