The last time this esports event was held in Seattle was 2017.

Valve is bringing The International home for 2023. This weekend, the studio revealed that for the first time since 2017 the massive Dota 2 world championship will be held in Seattle, Washington. It will kick off in late October and take place in the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.

Further details were not yet revealed by Valve but they did say that the number of tickets that will be available will be much...

Valve says this is just one step in the ongoing fight against cheating.

It's not too often that Valve comes out swinging their big ban hammer, but yesterday was one such occasion. On the official Dota 2 blog, Valve revealed that they have recently permanently banned over 40,000 accounts that were caught using third-party software to cheat. Valve used the cheaters' access to information "that wasn't visible during normal gameplay" to confirm their suspicions and dish out some...

ninjaboogie says he was cut from Team SMG because he chose to spend time with his mother as she was in the final stages of cancer.

Professional Dota 2 player, Michael "ninjaboogie" Ross, says that he was cut from Team SMG as a result of his decision to spend time with his mother in "her last days."

According to statements released by Ross on Twitter, he chose to spend time with his mother before she passed. His mother had been battling stage four cancer....

Ivan "Pure" Moskalenko claims the drawing was a mistake, but consequences were dished out.

A Russian Dota 2 esports player, Ivan "Pure" Moskalenko, has been cut from Virtus.pro. This comes after Moskalenko drew a large letter "Z" on the minimap during a qualifying tournament for the upcoming ESL One Stockholm Major.

A report from Yahoo says that Virtus.pro was playing under the name of "Outsiders" in order to evade an ESL ban on...

Contrary to popular belief, not everything was delayed in 2021.

Once again, Valve employees have poured through the data over the course of hundreds of hours to produce a list of the biggest and best-selling games available through Steam in 2021. It's either that, or they just had a program compile all of the data for them, but the alternative sounds more thrilling.

Valve has broken down Steam's "Best of 2021" into several categories. They have listings for the...

They just won a boatload of cash. Like an actual boatload. It was a ton of money.

The International 10 wrapped up earlier today at the National Arena in Bucharest, Romania. The 2021 winner for this annual Dota 2 tournament was none other than Team Spirit. They defeated PSG.LGD with a final score of 3 to 2.

As usual, this year's event broke all sorts of esports records with a community-driven prize pool of over $40 million (USD).

The International began in...

Matches will be played on Sunday.

Valve announces that the final three teams for tomorrow's final matchups in Dota 2's The International 10 have been determined. Starting tomorrow, the first game will be the lower bracket final between Team Secret and Team Spirit. This takes place on Sunday at 10AM local time in Romania, or 3AM (ET).

The winner of that match will then go on to face PSG.LGD in the Grand Final later that afternoon in Romania, or at 6AM (ET). Both of these...

Blame the rising Covid rates for this one.

This weekend, Valve announced that they are suspending sales of tickets for The International 2021 Dota 2 tournament. The reason, as cited in a new blog post, is due to the rising Covid rates in Romania.

Back in July, Valve announced that The International 2021 would be held in Bucharest, Romania. This was the second venue announced for the tournament, with the first choice being Stockholm, Sweden. At the time, the Swedish Sports...

Valve just announced that their annual esports event will be held in Romania this year.

The International 10 - Dota 2 Championships will be held this October in Bucharest, Romania. The Arena Nationala will host the major esports event that is set to take place between the world's top teams from October 7 - 17.

Group Stage will run from October 7 - 10. Starting on October 12 the Main Stage events will begin to kick off. Finally on October 17, the top two remaining Dota...

Assuming "everyone" is playing these select titles on PC.

Just as they promised, AMD has launched their FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) feature today for both AMD and Nvidia GPUs. This technology is AMD's own spatial upscaling solution that is open-source and cross-platform. It is designed to boost framerates and allow for "high-quality, high-resolution gaming experiences" in titles that support it.

This can be viewed as AMD's response to Nvidia's...

Oh no.

Valve and Netflix just announced a new anime based off of the Dota franchise. This claims to be a look at "the Dota universe like you've never seen it before." This new anime series, called DOTA: Dragon's Blood, will debut on Netflix on March 25.

The announcement video for the series can be found below. You can also find additional information about the series by checking out the Dragon's Blood section of the Dota 2 client. There will also be additional...

You could say that it's back from the dead.

Back in the far off time of 2013, Dota 2 had a special Halloween event called Diretide. It was fairly popular back in 2012 and the community had clamored, to put it nicely, for it to return in 2013. Since then begging for its return has become a bit of a meme with the community. Alas, some memes do become reality and here in 2020, where literally anything is possible and probable, Diretide has made its return once more.

The main...

Today we take a look at some of the strongest mid-laners in Dota 2 that will help you gain MMR or simply win games in normal Dota 2 matches.

The meta of Dota 2 changes frequently, and it’s nothing like it was a few years ago. Still, the mid position is the second most important position in the game, and that’s why it’s called the position 2.

Almost no pub game starts without a fight for who will take the mid lane, because people know how much of an impact...

The Dota 2 Pro Circuit was left in disarray because of the coronavirus pandemic. Almost the whole world is in lockdown, and there are travel bans everywhere.

This means only one thing; the show must go on - online!

ESL One Los Angeles is already halfway through the group stage, and it was amazing so far!

The EU and CIS teams have given the viewers some great entertainment because we’ve seen some veteran dominance, shocking upsets, and heartbreaking...