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Gabe Newell giving his opening speech for The International 2026
'Dude no joke looks like Hugh Jackman now': The internet is swooning over Gabe Newell's svelte new look at The International

By Andy Chalk Published

news Newell's video message welcoming everyone to this year's Dota 2 championship tourney caught a lot of viewers by surprise.

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 13: Elon Musk attends the 2024 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
Remember when OpenAI beat humans in Dota 2? Turns out that was partly thanks to when Elon Musk 'personally called [Satya] Nadella' to secure a load of discounted Microsoft computing power

By Rich Stanton Published

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How OpenAI tore apart a team of Dota 2 pros

By Morgan Park Last updated

Become Human We talked to the players and the OpenAI engineers about what it was like to build and face off against a fearsome Dota bot.

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Valve logo with a man with a steam valve for an eye.
Valve comes out swinging against New York lawsuit with rare public statement: 'The type of deal that would satisfy the NYAG would have been bad for users and other game developers'

By Andy Chalk Published

news The state of New York sued Valve in February over allegations of illegal gambling.

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The Scout and the Heavy grappling in the Meet the Scout video.
Valve facing second, class-action lawsuit over loot boxes

By Andy Chalk Published

news The consumer lawsuit comes just over a week after a similar suit filed by the state of New York.

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Third person shooter MOBA Deadlock
Deadlock's littlest guy makes size matter in a way it almost never has in a MOBA before

By Justin Wagner Published

Mightily small Top-down MOBAs with locked camera perspectives can't make headshots and hitboxes matter the way they do in Deadlock.

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Gabe Newell delivers inspirational message to fans and competitors at The International 2025
Gabe Newell waxes poetic about his love for the Dota 2 community in a special message for The International: 'People talk s**t at me in chat' and tell him to uninstall the game on a weekly basis

By Andy Chalk Published

news But he loves 'em anyway.

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Three monsters holding clubs in Dota 2.
As a lapsed 4,500 hour veteran of Dota 2, the big new Wandering Waters update has lured me back—but despite the changes, the game still feels stuck in its ways

By Matt Cox Published

Weather warning River rapids and evolving frog-men can't quite shake up the meta, even if a hard-earned victory feels as sweet as ever.

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An image of the Wandering Waters map update to Dota 2
Dota 2 remembers water is very important, adds more, in latest map shakeup

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News Go downstream, go faster. That checks out.

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Dota 2 Sleet Fighter screen
Surprise! Dota 2 has a built-in fighting game now and it actually looks pretty good

By Andy Chalk Published

news Sleet Fighter was added as part of the new Crownfall Act 3 update.

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