Two model new heroes have arrived in Dota 2 with the launch of model 7.07, the long-awaited Duelling Fates replace. Please welcome to the battle enviornment Dark Willow, a spoOoky nuker, and the zippy swordsman Pangolier. They’re the primary new heroes added for the reason that Monkey King means again in December 2016. The replace...
Dr. Sniper is here to prescribe 20cc of Busey brain medicine this week. Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host this week. Things were certainly… “interesting” last week, to say the least. As the doldrums of Autumn draw...
Dr. Sniper is here to prescribe 20cc of Busey brain medicine this week. Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host this week. Things were certainly… “interesting” last week, to say the least. As the doldrums of Autumn draw...
MODOK Ryan still gets me (Many thanks to Ronnie Filyaw for this) Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host this week! Well it appears that we have all collectively recovered from our post-PAX East stupor. As the insanity...
To promote the launch of the HTC Vive this week (our review is on the way), Valve has put up a few montages of different demos and games on the SteamVR page. Most of these excerpts are stuff we’ve already played, but one of them stands out: a glance at what appears to be a VR spectator mode in development for Dota 2....
Happy Lies Day, everybody! Hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful day of lies. It’s time to bring the festivities to an end, however, and settle in for a weekend of extremely serious and definitely happening digital sports. CS:GO is hosting the week’s highest-profile clash, but there’s plenty of LoL, Dota 2, Smite and fighting to go...
The biggest event in the Dota calendar looms once again. Tickets for The International 2016 will go on sale April 7 at 10am PT and 10pm PT (April 7 at 6PM BST and April 8 at 6AM BST) ahead of the main event at Seattle’s KeyArena August 8-13. This year there are two ticketing options: the Midweek ticket gets...
Image from CS:GO Austin Dreamhack site. It’s an interesting balance this weekend, as Blizzard’s biggest esports ramp up for some high-level competition while Valve’s largest games both have qualifiers for huge tournaments in May. Hearthstone and Starcraft II have international tournaments held in Europe in the form of the second Truesilver Championship and the Gold Series...
Photo credit: ESL/Steffie Wunderl. Three Lane Highway A column documenting Chris’ complex ongoing relationship with Dota 2. To read more Three Lane Highway, click here. It’s been a dramatic week. The arrival of this year’s Spring Cleaning update has been roundly overshadowed by the professional scene’s most recent rosterpocalypse. If you were trying to figure out...
Roshpit Champions. Last week I reported that the waters of paid modding were cloudy as ever: the debut game mode for Dota 2’s $1 Custom Game Pass was found to use others’ assets without permission. That’s in spite of Valve’s assurance to our Chris Thursten that “the Dota team’s curation of the process addresses this, requiring...
