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Valve uses honeypot to ban 40k Dota 2 cheaters News Feb 23rd, 2023

Valve uses honeypot to ban 40k Dota 2 cheaters

PC giant tricked users into getting themselves banned

Valve refunds Dota International 2021 tickets amid rising covid cases News Oct 4th, 2021

Valve refunds Dota International 2021 tickets amid rising covid cases

Event was set to take place in Romanian capital of Bucharest

Dota 2's The International moves from Sweden to Romania News Jul 8th, 2021

Dota 2's The International moves from Sweden to Romania

Event to take place in October of this year

Valve lays out plans to tackle Dota 2 toxicity News Oct 20th, 2020

Valve lays out plans to tackle Dota 2 toxicity

Company plans to use a similar player-managed system to what it introduced in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Valve is changing up how it selects the host city for The International News Feb 27th, 2020

Valve is changing up how it selects the host city for The International

It's in Stockholm this year

Players to receive harsher ban penalties in Dota 2 News Sep 23rd, 2019

Players to receive harsher ban penalties in Dota 2

Several features have been updated to better player experience

Dota 2 The International 2019 prize pot hits $30m, surpassing Fortnite World Cup cash News Jul 22nd, 2019

Dota 2 The International 2019 prize pot hits $30m, surpassing Fortnite World Cup cash

Sitting at $30,158,755 at time of writing

CHARTS: Dota 2 International 2019 content takes Steam Top Ten No.1 spot as prize pool surpasses $25m News Jul 1st, 2019

CHARTS: Dota 2 International 2019 content takes Steam Top Ten No.1 spot as prize pool surpasses $25m

Monster Hunter World, Grand Theft Auto V, Rust and Sekiro chart due to Summer Sale

Valve's Auto Chess title Dota Underlords hits 121k Steam concurrent users 24 hours after launch News Jun 21st, 2019

Valve's Auto Chess title Dota Underlords hits 121k Steam concurrent users 24 hours after launch

Double the number of players Artifact attracted, but that was a premium title so it's far from a fair comparison

Both Valve and Riot are working on their own versions of Dota Auto Chess News Jun 14th, 2019

Both Valve and Riot are working on their own versions of Dota Auto Chess

Steam giant's take already in beta, League of Legends maker starts work on its own spin

Over 99 per cent of players couldn’t beat OpenAI’s Dota 2 bot News Apr 23rd, 2019

Over 99 per cent of players couldn’t beat OpenAI’s Dota 2 bot

"Arena was a massive-scale experiment to test whether OpenAI is exploitable, given the entire Internet trying to break it"

As Artifact flounders, DOTA Auto Chess hits seven million subscribers News Apr 2nd, 2019

As Artifact flounders, DOTA Auto Chess hits seven million subscribers

Modders may have found the next big thing as Auto Chess prepares for a Dota-less mobile version

Unofficial Dota spin-off Auto Chess is far more popular than card game Artifact News Feb 20th, 2019

Unofficial Dota spin-off Auto Chess is far more popular than card game Artifact

Fan project has attracted over four million people since start of January

Valve condemns racist insults thrown around by DOTA 2 pro players News Nov 12th, 2018

Valve condemns racist insults thrown around by DOTA 2 pro players

But the company has yet to outline appropriate punishment for bigoted behaviour

Valve unveils Dota 2 loot box odds News Oct 19th, 2018

Valve unveils Dota 2 loot box odds

Following in footsteps of Rocket League and League of Legends

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