Valve has launched an app to maintain gamers within the loop with Dota games that additionally permits them to guess on matches. Dota Pro Circuit, out there for Android and iOS, retains followers updated on matches, outcomes, groups and participant profiles. Users may choose to have push notifications enabled, permitting them to remain immediately up-to-date with as many matches as they please on-the-go.
What’s extra, Valve is permitting gamers to position bets on their predictions of match outcomes. The operate isn’t like different game primarily based betting purposes, nonetheless. Dota Pro Circuit solely permits gamers to deal in Dota Plus Shards, which may then be spent on unique in-game rewards, equivalent to beauty modifications and entry to in-game occasions.
The slight catch is that Dota Pro Circuit is barely out there when you’re a subscriber to Dota Plus, which requires a rolling month-to-month subscription. Still, place your bets proper and you possibly can quickly be rolling in a digital pile of Dota Plus Shards to spend on no matter you please (in-game, in fact).
Dota Pro Circuit comes as Valve’s equal of Blizzard’s Esports software, which permits gamers to communicate with Starcraft, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft eSporting occasions.
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The app comes at an odd time after the anticipated launch of Dota Auto Chess on cell, a excessive fantasy tabletop chess-based simulator. Developer Drodo Studios dropped Dota from its mobile branding and advertising to easily change into Auto Chess, sharing similarity in art-style however not in characters or setting.
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