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Dota 2 is a 2013 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game by Valve.The game is a sequel to Defense of the Ancients (DotA), a community-created mod for Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
Critical reception to DotA was positive, and it has been called one of the most popular mods of any game. DotA is largely attributed as being the most significant inspiration for the MOBA genre. American video game developer Valve acquired the intellectual property rights to DotA in 2009 to develop a franchise, beginning with Dota 2 in 2013.
Dota is a series of strategy video games.The series began in 2003 with the release of Defense of the Ancients (DotA), a fan-developed multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) custom map for the video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion, The Frozen Throne.
Dota 2: Valve: Valve MOBA: Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux July 2013 July 2013 Free-to-play 90 [20] Dragonsphere: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: Dwarf Fortress: Tarn Adams: Bay 12 Games: City-building game, Roguelike: Windows, OS X, Linux August 2006 August 2006 Freeware [21] [22]
The Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) was the professional league used in Dota 2, a competitive five-on-five video game.Active between 2017 and 2023, the DPC was organized by the game's developer, Valve and consisted of seasonal "Major" tournaments and Regional Leagues from North America, South America, Southeast Asia, China, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe.
Teamfight Tactics (TFT) is an auto battler game developed and published by Riot Games.The game is a spinoff of League of Legends and is based on Dota Auto Chess, where players compete online against seven other opponents by building a team to be the last one standing.
Source 2 is a video game engine developed by Valve.The engine was announced in 2015 as the successor to the original Source engine, with the first game to use it, Dota 2, being ported from Source that same year.
[24] [25] In June 2015, Valve announced that Dota 2, originally made in the Source engine, would be ported over to Source 2 in an update called Dota 2 Reborn. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Reborn was first released to the public as an opt-in beta update that same month before officially replacing the original client in September 2015, making it the first game ...