DOTA2 gets 9.4 points on IGN

The reviews for DOTA2 by all authoritative sites begin recently with the coming of its public beta. Previously we have reported that Metacritic gives DOTA2 92 points. And now one of the three authoritative media IGN also released its
score on the game (detailed review) – 9.4 points (10 points as the full score).

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/24/dota-2-review

Compared to other hot games of the same genre recently, such as the Torchlight 2 (9.1 points), Guild Wars 2 (9.0 points), Planetside 2 (9.0 points) and League of Legends (9.0 points), the score for DOTA2 leads. But all games have their own defects. The picky IGN editor says although it’s a free game, it’s not so friendly to beginners and may cause the loss on new comers. 

According to the review, the art and design of VALVE have reached the peak of perfection. Rich system and changeable gameplay will extend the life of the game for a long time (maybe the two – year close beta is still short for DOTA2).

DOTA2: New STEAM Market Price Graph

Are you confused about when to trade? Well, Valve now adds DOTA2 price graph to make transaction more convenient.

Last year, as Valve added cash trading platform of build – in gaming items to STEAM, players could sell idle items such as ornaments, couriers and consumable to get STEAM wallet funds or purchase all kinds of strange things.

These days, Valve updated the stream community market and added a price graph so that players can check the price changes of certain item and sell items at a proper time. Go and experience it!

The Most Popular DOTA2 Heroes

Everyone, today I will present the most popular heroes paintings among DOTA 2 players.Please have a look at to see if your favorite hero is among them:

Queen of Pain:

Strong survival; often solo mid; gank after level 6; strong gank ability; her ult has high damage in team fight.survival;

Bloodseeker:He's powerful in early and mid game. Often solos mid and ganks after level 6. Strong leading ability.

 

Lyncanthrope:Late game hero. Jungle in early game. Steal roshan in mid game. He is with great DPS ability and tower pushing ability.

Guys, what's your favorite DOTA 2 hero?

DOTA2 Ranks First in RPG History of VALVE

Simultaneous users of DOTA2 on Steam now reach 297,010 and it exceeds that of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – 287, 411. Half a month ago, its simultaneous users have reaches 280,000. And it rises again on March 1st and becomes the RPG game with the most players in the history of Valve.  
 The data is provided by the forum user of Reddit. He even draws a tendency chart which shows that MOBA users are rising steadily and DOTA2 will keep the record in a certain amount of time.
 
I believe these data will be increasingly higher if players love DOTA2 from the bottom of their hearts. 

Gorgeous Female Champions In DOTA 2

Almost all female champions in DotA2 are beautified and I gather the six beauty champions here. Which one is your favorite? Please follow me and step into the beauty world of DotA2. Let’s vote for the most charmingbeauty champions in our hearts! Please click champion image to vote: 
 

 

DreamHack 2013 Coming Soon

DreamHack 2013 is just around the corner and 8 teams will compete on this event. Now let’s see the details:
The DreamHack Dota2 Invitational presented by The GD Studio

The DreamHack Dota2 Invitational presented by The GD StudioThe big announcement was made via a video posted on DreamHack's youtube account bringing much hype to the community. With $6,000 up for grabs and featuring the biggest names in the scene right now, the DreamHack Dota 2 Invitational will sure to churn out some great games throughout March and April. Teams will be placed into two groups of four and will play each other for a spot in the playoffs. The top three placing teams will proceed to the playoffs with the top placing team of each group being seeded directly into the semi-finals. Bruno revealed on Reddit that the invitational would enable DotaTV. Up till now, we have no idea if a purchased ticket is needed to watch in-game or provided free of charge just like DreamHack Summer 2012.

Game Evolution between LOL and Dota 2

Dubai, the world well – known city will meet a large e – sports offline event and DotA2 is also among the event. Let’s expect the coming of the wonderful event together. Speaking of Dubai, we will first come up with finance and tourism. But the biggest city of the United Arab Emirates will meet a large e – sports offline event at the end of the year with the total prize pool $150,000. It contains three PC games - League of Legends, DOTA2 and CS:GO and two console games - FIFA 13 and Super Street Fighter IV. The event is planned to hold in November of this year and the location will be Dubai World Trade Centre!  The sponsor will name these two days (November 15th and November 16th) as Game Evolution because matches of DOTA2 and League of Legends will be held during these two days. The prize pool for DOTA2 will be $40,000 and that of League of Legends will be $60,000. Participants for three PC games are 20 teams respectively, including invited teams and 16 open registration slots. Registration starts Friday, March 1. Meanwhile, the committee also reveals that there will be a main stage for World Trade Centre to present matches to live audiences and the ticket will be $20 - $70. There will also be online live broadcast, and multiple HD live streams will be available so that players will be able to watch live broadcast for every game. It may be tight for proceeding of three games and 60 teams. But Game Evolution authority shows that they will arrange the most suitable and scientific schedule to ensure the smooth proceeding of the event. 

DotA2 Test Update

Weekly DOTA2 test update. It adds many practical functions instead of new champions. Mechanics for new players which has been expected for a long time is coming and the mechanics I is added this week! Meanwhile, players can practice AIoffline.

- Added Mechanics I for new players!- Added 7 new item sets to the Dota store.- Immortal and Tournament items can now be traded on the Steam Community Market.GAMEPLAY- Clockwerk: Fixed Power Cogs pulling more than just heroes inside the cogs.- Huskar: Fixed Berserker's Blood not stacking at the proper health thresholds.- Keeper of the Light: Fixed Mana Leak accumulating mana loss during magic immunity.- Phantom Lancer: Fixed an issue where illusions made by a player on the other team would create uncontrollable Juxtapose illusions.- Tusk: Fixed a case where heroes with very small collision size could escape Ice Shards.- Tusk: Fixed a rare bug where teleporting could cause Walrus Punched units to end up in odd positions.- Fixed various aspects of Spectral Dagger logic being dispellable.- Fixed sometimes being revealed if your projectile hits the target after you become invisible with Shadow Blade.- Improved TP interaction with FoW.- Fixed two ledges (below the two rune spots) where you could get units stuck with Telekinesis and Vacuum.UI- Added the ability to examine chests.- Added a Game History tab to the Team Profile.- Added checkbox for filtering Live Games to just Team games.- You can now click on Team names in Live or Recent games to view their team profiles.- Added a post-game Match Quality survey panel.- Added an icon to backpack slots if that item is currently equipped.- Fixed the courier delivery icon popping when the courier collected stash items.- Fixed courier delivery being delayed by 0.5 seconds if there were no items to get from the stash.- Fixed courier move orders not clearing the transfer items buff icon.- Players can now set a custom rich presence status that can be displayed on the UI.- Fixed Lina's Fiery Soul buff not showing the correct cooldown if it was refreshed with 3 stacks.AUDIO/VISUAL- Updated Arc Lightning's visual effects and sound.- Updated Shadow Shaman's attack sound.- Updated Ether Shock's visual effects and sound.- Updated Mjollnir and Maelstrom visual effects.BOTS- When a push is happening into a base, global desire to farm is significantly decreased.- Fixed a case where bots far from the lane front could thrash into and out of Push Lane mode.- Single-player bot games now run locally on the user's machine.- Increased reaction time by about 50% in all modes.

DOTA2 Q-Version Champions

How do you feel about these cute DOTA 2 heroes? Cute, right?

DOTA2 Selected Artworks

In the dota 2 fans site, you can see more.

DOTA2: Analysis on Tusk Updated Skills

Not long ago, Valve added the champion – TUSK who possesses the lovely appearance. Players love the champion! Compared to Dota, there are some changes on his skills, or more specifically, his W skill. Now let’s analyze the updated skills in Dota 2.
In DOTA2, TUSK’s W makes him the team fight initiator. Compared to DOTA, his W can now makes Tusk and any nearby allied heroes roll in a quickly growing snowball towards the target enemy unit which increases the number of participants. We are not sure whether it’s good or bad. Maybe we will see the godlike Tusk in wonderful moments later, or gooselike Tusk in funny clips! Now let’s see what other champions’ ult will do to Tusk’s W during the rolling process: 1. Tusk rolls with Tidehunter. Can Tidehunter cast his ult?2. Will the snowball vanish if Faceless Void casts his ult while Tusk is rolling? Will Faceless Void hit Tusk if the snowball still exists?3. Can Faceless Void’s ult control Tusk’s E?4. Is Tusk invulnerable during the rolling process? Here are the results after tests:1. Tidehunter can’t cast skills during the rolling process, and his skill will be cast automatically after the snowball breaks.2. Faceless Void’s ult won’t affect Tusk’s Snowball, but he and his allies will be controlled after the snowball breaks.3. Faceless Void’s ult won’t affect Tusk’s Frozen Sigil and Tusk can move as he likes.4. Tusk is invulnerable during the rolling process. Neither Twin Headed Dragon’s nor Lesale’s ults affect Tusk’s W. During the process, Tusk is free from damage. There’s another question which draws players’ attention: how does Rubick cast after he steals Tusk’s ult?The answer is that Rubick can cast Tusk’s ult in a ranged area. It’s interesting. Seems that we will see Tusk often in later video clips!

Dota 2 Symphony of Skills 10: Cooperation Between Alleria and Goblin Shredder

DOTA2 authority launches Dota 2 Symphony of Skills 10 of this week and players can learn a lot from the video. The terrific cooperation between Alleria and Goblin Shredder shows us operation and judgment of masters. Now let’s enjoy the wonderful video together.

DOTA 2 Heroes Concept Art Show

More DOTA 2 concept art pictures here.

Gaming House Founded by Natus Vincere

Natus Vincere is a world renowned professional team which was formed in December, 2009. It develops fast and quickly becomes the world famous professional team.

Collectively, Na’Vi members gained a podium finish at 53 separate events, cumulative over $1.7 million prize money, and over 500,000 fans through Facebook, YouTube and Twitter during the last three years. In 2010, their Counter-Strike 1.6 team made history by sweeping three major tournaments in a single year – the Electronic Sports World Cup, World Cyber Games, and Intel Extreme Masters – while their DotA 2 team collected one of the largest prizes in eSports history after winning Valve’s first 'International' tournament back in 2011. They’ve since expanded to both StarCraft 2 and FIFA, and are single-handedly building an unshakable reputation for Ukrainian gamers worldwide.Below is the interview content about Natus Vincere’s forming gaming house by ESEA News:“Why do you think you have such a large fan base in the US?We would like to believe this is because of the outstanding skill level of our teams and players, as well as our record of tournament victories. Other than that, all of our players are really bright and versatile personalities, both in e-Sports and real life.Whereabouts in the US have you been looking? Are there any particular states or cities that have taken your interest?Right now we are thinking of the US West, somewhere like Los Angeles or San Francisco. We believe that this region is exceptionally healthy for progaming, as it has a good transport hub to attend all the events in the country and its climate is just so good! Our concept of a gaming house includes not only bedrooms and gaming zones for players, but also recreational areas such as a pool, gym, sun’n’surf volleyball and so on. We firmly believe that outdoor sports are a very important aspect of professional gaming and that’s why we would like to provide such opportunities for our players. Moreover, we will be able to produce decent video and live-streaming content from our US gaming house, showing the way of life of our players.When are you planning to move, and which of your players are likely to be staying in the house?Right now it is too early to discuss dates, but this is something we plan for 2013. Our initial idea was to bring one of our teams to the US for a certain period of time (approximately 3-4 months), then to bring another team for the same period, and so on. This will allow us to have a rotation of gaming squads between our European and US gaming houses, which would boost our presence and influence in both regions. Of course, we will have to adjust to the schedule of tournaments and leagues, so this plan may be subjected to certain changes.”

Famous DOTA 2 Player Vigoss Left

Russian famous DOTA 2 player Vigoss suddenly announced to leave el'Pride for some private reasons. His leave really made the team in panic. And now there is still no information about his return to DotA. In this period, Tumat from Aydash'Aidash will take his place in the following matches.

Current el'Pride Roster:

Andrew 'androidP' Pishikov
Leonard 'Massacre' Urih9
Alexander "Stalk' Melder
Eugen 'XaKoH" Kochetkov
Aydash 'Aidash' Tumat (temporary replacement)


eL' Pride is a relatively newly formed team that emerged in the past months. They have been putting up promising performances, participating in many tournaments, such as StarLadder Season 5.

DOTA2 Champions Artwork Collection

Click here and you can have more amazing artworks.

Update list of DOTA2

- Added team matchmaking. Teams have a public rating based on their performance against other teams.

- Added language setting for matchmaking.

GAMEPLAY

- Alchemist: Fixed Unstable Concoction AOE and Self impact behavior when there is a Magic Immune target.

- Batrider: Fixed Sticky Napalm being applied to Magic Immune units.

- Batrider: Fixed Sticky Napalm being removed by Magic Immunity.

- Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture damage interval.

- Bloodseeker: Fixed being able to use potions during Rupture.

- Dark Seer: Fixed being able to cast Ion Shell on special units like Spirit Bear and Warlock's Golem

- Doom: Fixed Doom's interaction with MKB and Truestrike.

- Dragon Knight: Fixed Dragon Breath sometimes missing at very close range in Elder Dragon Form.

- Dragon Knight: Fixed Dragon Breath travel time being too slow.

- Gyrocopter: Fixed Call Down first and second impact slow values being swapped

- Keeper of the Light: Fixed Recall going off if Keeper died during the delay.

- Lone Druid: Fixed Spirit Bear's Entangle working against Ancients and Creep Heroes like Familiars and Warlock's Golem.

- Medusa: Fixed Split Shot hitting Nightmared units.

- Medusa: Fixed Mana Shield not blocking damage from Death Ward, Plague Wards, Serpent Wards and Wildkin's Tornado.

- Morphling: Fixed Morph transformation stopping if Morphling gets purged or cycloned.

- Shadow Fiend: Fixed Shadow Fiend gaining souls while dead

- Shadow Fiend: Fixed Shadow Fiend gaining souls from killing illusions.

- Spectre: Fixed Spectral Dagger sometimes creating invisible paths of targets it hit.

- Troll Warlord: Added Pseudo Random support for his Bash.

- Troll Warlord: Fixed Whirling Axes interaction with Roshan.

- Visage: Fixed Cleave hitting Familiars.

- Warlock: Fixed Flaming Fists hitting ethereal units.

- Weaver: Fixed various buffs Time Lapse did not remove.

- Witch Doctor: Fixed Paralyzing Casks bouncing off of couriers.

- Courier: Fixed courier not responding to deliver orders after having received a hold or stop order.

- Courier: Reduced stash interaction ranges to fix the courier not filling a bottle when entering and exiting the fountain area in a short time.

- Courier: Fixed the Deliver Items breaking if you used speed burst on the way to the stash.

- Fixed direct unit target spells having 24 less effective range.

- Fixed Dark Pact and and Kraken Shell not removing Sticky Napalm, Shadow Strike, Venomous Gale, Poison Nova and Viper Strike.

- Fixed Day/Night cycle duration as well as initial state being a bit off.

- Fixed some ability Backswing timing issues (Kunkka, Clockwerk, Timbersaw, Meepo, Pudge, Spiritbreaker, Sand King, Riki, Nyx, Lion, Pugna, Shadow Demon, Batrider).

- Orb of Venom now has the same stacking behavior with Lifesteal that Eye of Skadi does.

- Fixed Veil of Discord not getting applied to Magic Immune units.

- Fixed Veil of Discord getting dispelled by Purge/BKB/Cyclone/etc.

- Fixed Bloodstone charges incrementing while you are dead.

- Dropped, non-sharable items can no longer be destroyed by teammates.

- Fixed dominated units continuing their previous channeling spell.

- Enabled Silencer in Captain's Mode for Latest Version (will be enabled in Tournament Version the following week).

UI

- Added Language option for Matchmaking. You will find players when matchmaking that have selected the same language(s).

- Fixed buff refreshes not showing the correct swipe.

- Made Keeper's two Spirit Form abilities always visible but just disabled until he uses Spirit Form.

- The dota:// URL handler now supports lobbyid=<lobbyid> and accountid=<accountid> for creating game spectating links.

- Fixed autocast ability border not hiding when moving from a friendly unit to querying an enemy.

- When using smart tab switching, fixed not being able to cycle to controllable units if your currently selected using is dead.

- Players that play on a league game will now have access to that league pass.

- Fixed being able to pick or random an already repicked hero.

- Added an error message when pressing the courier deliver button and there are no items to be delivered.

WEBAPI:

- Added Team query to WebAPI. Query is GetTeamInfoByTeamID, params are start_at_team_id and teams_requested.

LEAGUES:

- Players that participate in Leagues will now have access to watch all games for said league in the tournament tab.

BOTS

- Made Necrolyte bot more likely to use Death Pulse to heal himself.

- When considering purchasing an item and determining whether there's room in their inventory, bots will now consider whether the item will stack with an existing item.

- Bots will no longer sell a situational item in order to retrieve a situational item from their stash (fixes purchase thrashing).

- Witch Doctor will no longer use Maledict on non-hero units.

- Slightly lowered the maximum desire to attack a non-hero unit.

Dota 2: GosuLeague Season 5 schedule for this week

Pulse eSports and Team Empire will fight against each other tonight, starting a new week of Dota2 GosuLeague Season 5.This week brings you once again action-packed games of the first division of GosuLeague. Wednesday will see the rematch of last season's winner decider, Na'Vi vs Kaipi. The Ukrainians haven't been playing together as of late, since both Dendi and Xboct were in China for the WCG 2012. Meanwhile, Kaipi have fallen a bit under the radar, seeing that they did not participate in Dreamhack Winter.

The other match of the day is Empire vs Svenhunterz. The Russians have struggled ever since they lost at the DHW '12 semi final against No Tidehunter. Their opponent is a newly-formed team who still has to prove themselves.

Dota 2: WhA and Team qojqva won't attend THOR Open

As expected, We Haz Asian will not participate in Dota2 THOR Open because they can't afford the travel expenses. Teamqojqva that grabbed the last qualifier spot will not attend, either.
The German-Danish mix We Haz Asian will not travel to Stockholm. Previous to the Dreamhack Winter, the team lost its sponsor and had to pay all travel expenses to Jönköping themselves. They tried finding in sponsor to travel to Stockholm, without any success.

WCG2012 DOTA2 Beauties & Hardcore Players

The matches of WCG2012 DOTA2 are terrific, and you can’t miss the beauties and hardcore players on the spot, either. Here I show you one of the pictures, let's appreciate it together.