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Dota 2 as religious experience
For spectators, The International 4 was sublime.
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Day 4 at the International: So what happens when you win $5 million playing a videogame?
A champion is crowned. Now what?
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The International, Day 2 and 3: The Wily, Genius, Totally Average Superstars of Tournament Play
Do we worship the player? Or do we worship the game?
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Day 1: The International turns videogames into a rock concert
Seattle comes alive to the future of sport.
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Esports could learn a lot from the World Cup
Turning games into global events.
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SteamBoy, the illegitimate lovechild of Steam and a Game Boy
While we were in our post-E3 stupor, a dev group went and announced a rather miraculous handheld system that plays Steam games. Due out in 2015, the SteamBoy, as the portmanteau suggests, combines the awesome library of Valve’s popular digital download platform with the play-it-anywhere-ability of a
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You guys watched a freakish amount of esports last year
We totally get that the Internet is a fantastic place for binging DOTA 2 matches and all, but got-damn did you people consume a lot of it in 2013. A new report from IHS Technology, people who track this sort of thing, has found that a cumulative amount of 2.4 billion hours were streamed to your eyeh
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Valve is about to make Dota fun again
The orthodoxy revolts.
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Evolve sure is looking like a first-person MOBA
As evidenced in this new interactive video of space cadets shooting bullet-spongy, albino mutants, Evolve is getting its multiplayer-online-battle-arena on. The 4-on-1 giant monster battling game from the makers of Left 4 Dead, coming to PCs and next-gen consoles later this year, could be a bellweth
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How Heroes of the Storm began its life as a cooking game
Game director Dustin Browder recalls the the strange origins of Blizzard’s MOBA.
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Pretty much everyone ever owns and plays Dota 2 (apparently)
The dark fantasy esport Dota 2 is undeniably Steam’s killer app, according to the number-crunching-smiths at Ars Technica, who found that over 25 million copies have been downloaded and played on Valve’s popular digital download service. We shouldn’t be shocked that such a hardcore, complex game—eve
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Fantasy esport Dota 2 gets fantasy leagues; fantasy to ensue
Fantasy football has the natural ability to turn even the most casual of pigskin fans into rabid stat-obsessed fanatics, and soon that tenacity will be rubbing off on DOTA 2. With the newest patch, fantasy DOTA leagues are now a thing. They work pretty much like their somewhat-distant football cousi