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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.
A fan cosplaying as Juggernaut, one of the game's 126 playable characters. A month prior to its launch, Dota 2 was already the most played game on Steam with a concurrent player count of nearly 330,000, which outweighed the number of players for the rest of platform's top ten most-played games combined.
First commercial game inspired by DotA. [8] 2009: League of Legends: Riot Games: Windows, Mac: Yes: Yes: 2010: Heroes of Newerth: S2 Games, Frostburn Studios: Windows, Mac, Linux: Yes: Discontinued: Became free to play in July 2011. Servers shut down June 19, 2022. [9] Garena bought the rights of the game from S2 in May 2015 and founded ...
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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.
It was at one point resurrected as a single-player RPG about the Dota 2 character Axe before it was shelved again. [144] A.R.T.I.: a lighthearted voxel-based game that allowed for open-ended creation and destruction in a vein similar to Minecraft. It was resurrected as a VR game but shelved again when Half-Life: Alyx eclipsed its development. [144]
In 2023 Liquipedia started to branch into covering traditional sports with their Formula 1 wiki. [29] In 2024, Liquipedia would host the game-focused Dota 2 Wiki, which previously was hosted on Fandom, with an intent to merge both the esports wiki and the game wiki into a single, comprehensive Dota 2 wiki. [30]
This is a list of esports players. This is not a complete list of all active, professional esports players, but rather a consolidation of the most influential or significant. The list does not include online poker or online chess players, since they are usually separated from esports.