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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.
The company continued to release multiplayer games with the launches of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, [6] both of which have large esports communities fostered by Valve. [8] During the 2010s, Valve began focusing on supporting their established multiplayer games with regular content updates.
Dota Underlords, an auto battler based on the community-created Dota 2 mod Dota Auto Chess, was released in 2020. The original DotA map is considered one of the most popular of all time, with tens of millions of players and a consistent presence at esports tournaments throughout the 2000s. DotA is considered a catalyst for the MOBA genre, inspiring
When asked about the inspiration of Dota Auto Chess shortly following the mod's release, Drodo Studio stated that they drew inspiration from the Chinese tile-based game Mahjong for reference. Generally played by four people, the objective of Mahjong is to spell out a particular combination of cards through a series of replacement and trade-off ...
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By the end of 2011, Dota 2 was already one of the highest-paying esport games, second only to StarCraft II. [81] At E3 2013, South Korean company Nexon announced the investment of ₩2 billion (approximately US$ 1.7 million) into local leagues in the country, which coincided with their distribution partnership with Valve for the game. [82]
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. Other Valve games such as Artifact, Dota Underlords, Half-Life: Alyx, Counter-Strike 2, and Deadlock have been produced with the engine.
Dota 2 (port), [12] The Lab (limited), Artifact, Dota Underlords, Half-Life: Alyx, Counter-Strike 2, Deadlock: Proprietary: The first game using Source 2, Dota 2, was ported over from the original Source engine. One of The Lab's minigame Robot Repair uses Source 2 engine while rest of seven uses Unity's engine. Spring: C++: C, C++, Java/JVM ...