A contingent of 20 Singaporeans will be participating in this year’s E-Sports Thailand Championship, held from 6 to 9 October at the Bangkok International Game Festival. They will be participating in the Dota Allstars, StarCraft II and Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition tournaments, with up to 423,000 THB (S$17,720) in prize money at stake. 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 »
Scythe.SG — who recently placed third at the International Dota 2 Championship — is now part of Denmark-based professional esports team Meet Your Makers after signing a one-year deal with them earlier this week. The Singapore-based team will replace the previous MYM.DotA team led by Jacob “Maelk” Toft-Andersen. Read on for the details. Read more »
The girls from PMS Asterisk* will be making an appearance at COMEX 2011 beginning today, this time facing off with gamers in the Toshiba Qosmio Challenge to promote the Toshiba Qosmio F750 gaming laptop. Read more »
Ever since the Dota 2 Gamescom tournament was announced — creating huge buzz in the esports scene — I’ve been carefully considering if Dota 2 will be a success both in Singapore, Asia and internationally. While the original Dota was hugely popular here, it does not follow that Dota 2 will automatically enjoy the same success. […] Read more »
Registration for the Dota 2 beta has begun at the official Dota 2 website. All you need is a Steam account to sign yourself up to the beta candidate list. There are no details on when the beta will open. Gamers will be able to get their first look at Dota 2 later today during […] Read more »
Confused about which hero is which in the Dota 2 Gamescom trailer? Or perhaps you’re new to Dota and have never heard of any of these heroes? Here’s a blow-by-blow guide, as well as links to each hero’s Dota Allstars profile, to help you identify each and every hero that appears in the trailer. Read more »
The Dota 2 Gamescom trailer has just been unveiled on the Dota 2 blog and, boy, colour me impressed. It is brilliantly done, with visual quality and production values that rival those of Blizzard’s best trailers for World of Warcraft and StarCraft II. The cinematic trailer features a merchant hawking his wares to you, the […] Read more »
Free-to-play (F2P) games made their debut on Valve’s Steam online game store and distribution service early this morning, Singapore time. While the official announcement listed five launch titles, only three games appear to be available to Singaporean users. Read more »
DotA developer IceFrog is now working for Valve, according to a post on the DotA Allstars developer's blog on Monday.
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