If you thought The International 2016's $18,500,000 prize pool was already ridiculously massive, you've seen nothing yet as Valve has just unleashed the third and final Immortal Treasure upon the world of Dota 2. Given the quality of the items on offer, I think its safe to say that the prize

Dota 2 has recently been updated to version 6.88b, and while the various buffs and nerfs are most welcome, the short comic that came along with it is far more fascinating. Throughout the freely available ...

As is tradition with the Dota 2 International Compendiums, the one for 2016 is filled to the brim with fancy cosmetic goodies, and naturally, plenty of ways to sink even more money to honor the almighty Lord of Hats himself.

The Battle Pass will set you back $10 for the level 1 version,

In a rather brilliant marketing move the team behind Total War: Warhammer has announced a Dota 2 competition that challenges the talented community hat-makers with the creation of 'Warhammer Fantasy Battles'

After watching the Dota 2 community collectively lose their sanity and go full-on meme mode, Icefrog finally took mercy and unleashed the much anticipated patch 6.87 in to the great wilds of the test live servers.

From my initial

Its not often that you see a tournament with over a million dollars in prize pool money ran by amateurs and community volunteers, but the Shanghai Major was exactly that given that the management was completely useless, the technical team inept, and the ones running the whole arena completely

I'm not sure if this speaks about my shortsightedness, but when I first heard the announcement that Valve is enabling "Desktop Game Theater" support, ie. the option to play

Valve has announced that the tickets for The International 2016, Dota 2's biggest event of the year with millions on the line, will be available for purchase starting on April 7, with the event itself kicking off at Seattle's KeyArena on August 8.

The tickets will go on sale at 10am PT

It might not be the patch the community was clamoring for, but the Dota 2 Spring Cleaning update is one of the most significant patches in the rage-simulator's history.

There are no balance changes, or even new heroes, instead its an entire massive update devoted solely towards making

The Custom Game Pass is an in-game purchasable item that grants you additional content and features in select Dota 2 custom games. If you want the long version head over here, but in short its a

After the paid Skyrim mods fiasco I didn't expect Valve would be back so soon with a new implementation, nor that it would be a genuinely good one.

Valve's latest answer to the age old problem of how to support custom game developers is the Custom Game Pass, an in-game purchasable item

While I'm not the biggest fan of the Compendium system, mostly because you have to pay money to gain the ability to spend even more money, it does seem that Valve have learned their lesson with 2016 Winter Battle Pass as you can earn a fair chunk of rewards simply by playing well.

The

If you've been browsing any Dota 2 related forum for the past few weeks you would see a community driven in to an utter frenzy, like a pack of piranhas, but instead of flesh they were hungry for the much anticipated 6.86 patch.

And now that ...

I knew that Dota 2 modding tools were going to spawn some interesting games but this soon? Incredible.

BMD's Slayer of the Ancients mod transforms the game in to a third person shooter with WASD controls.