This weekend will see 12 teams from 11 countries participating in the World Cyber Games 2011 Asian Championship Dota and Dota 2 tournaments in Jakarta, Indonesia. One of the teams is Singapore representative AEON.Dota. I did a quick Q&A with their manager, Michael “XtReM1St” Phee, about the team’s preparations for the tournament. Read more »
When Sendi Mutiara Multimedia launched the SMM Grand National Dota Tournament in 2006, it was a domestic tournament catering primarily to gamers from Malaysia. Today, the now five-year-old tournament’s reputation and prize pool attracts participation from teams located from all across the Asia-Pacific, and even as far away as Europe and North America. Despite its […] Read more »
e-Club Malaysia, distributors of Valve games in Southeast Asia, have announced a Dota 2 promotional tour to drum up excitement in the region for the yet-to-be released game. Read more »
A second License 2 Play event — smaller in size than the previous one in May — has been confirmed for early December, and will feature a Dota 2 tournament with StarHub as the title sponsor. Read more »
Sendiri Mutiara Multimedia, organisers of the SMM 2011 Grand National Dota Tournament, were forced to backtrack on last week’s pledge to play the Grand Finals on Dota 2 instead of Dota Allstars after the decision proved to be controversial within the community. As a result, the Grand Finals will revert to being played on Dota Allstars […] Read more »
Sendi Mutiara Multimedia announced on Saturday that the grand finals of this year’s SMM Grand National Dota Tournament will be played on Dota 2 instead of Dota Allstars. This comes hot on the heels of the Electronic Sports World Cup’s announcement last month that it will do the same. Read more »
The Dota Allstars tournament at the Electronic Sports World Cup 2011 Grand Finals will be played on Dota 2 instead, according to a news statement released by the tournament organisers today. This marks the second major tournament of the year that will feature Valve’s unreleased take on what many see as the father of the […] Read more »
The recent leak of the Dota 2 closed-beta client has revealed that there are a total of 75 heroes included in the game, far more than the 46 we saw in action at the International Dota 2 Championships in Gamescom last month. Other reveals include regional matchmaking, kill cams, a player ranking system and the […] Read more »
With the supposedly Dota 2 closed beta client leaked, information on the game has been spreading like wildfire on the Internet. No Game No Talk has put together the full list of heroes and their biographies, datamined from the leaked strings file, and hero voice clips which have been uploaded to YouTube. Read on for […] Read more »
Scythe.SG made history last weekend when they placed third at The International Dota 2 Championships held at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, instantly becoming the most successful gaming team in Singapore by prize earnings. I interviewed Scythe.SG’s team leader Han Yong “hyhy” Lim, in which he revealed that the team only had a week to practice after coming out […] Read more »
