Archive for the ‘DotA’ category

FarmVille And WoW Are Latest Weapons In Court

According to an article, in USA Today, Social sites and massively multiplayer online games aren’t just a great place to catch up with friends and be entertained, they’re also a great place to dig up dirt on a soon-to-be ex. According to the article: The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers say that 81% of its [...]

Published by M0fla on June 30, 2010 5:55 pm0 Comments

ESWC Is Back For 2010 — Yes, There’s CS 1.6 & DotA On The Line Up!

Yesterday we wrote about Dreamhack dropping DotA for HoN, where we then commented ‘so what?’ We’ll, rightly so as the Electronic Sports World Cup is back and they are adding DotA to their games list. For those unsure, the ESWC is pretty darn old and we like it! Anyway, the games, and prize, list for [...]

Published by dean0 on February 3, 2010 6:57 pm0 Comments

Dreamhack Drops DotA… But Do We Really Care? No.

Dreamhack has dropped its support for DotA as they are moving towards the new comer, HoN. There doesn’t seem to be an exact reason as to why this is happening but it could be due to a big backing from S2 Games. Other reasons might include that Dreamhack was never really a good DotA competition, [...]

Published by dean0 on February 2, 2010 11:04 pm2 Comments

New DotA AllStars Version 6.66b

IceFrog has released a .b version to the latest map, Version 6.66. The new map included a few updates, which aren’t exactly that interesting. Local Download Here Use your Twilight Login! Full Change Log: * Fixed a major exploit recently discovered * Recoded Bounty Hunter’s wind walk damage bonus as to not require two separate [...]

Published by dean0 on January 27, 2010 12:01 pm0 Comments

The First Online Syncidy Cup For DotA — Play To Win!

You’ve heard right Cape Town, Syncidy LAN is back! Following some tragic ‘irregularities’ from our venue’s side end-September last year, Syncidy was forced underground. Have no fear though, time spent wasted is never time wasted! We are back and better than ever. Being as excited as we are to see everyone again, we have decided [...]

Published by dean0 on January 26, 2010 2:58 pm5 Comments

DotA Replay of the Week: DIPS vs TeG

From the GosuCup Tourney: the Swedish powerhouse, DIPS vs the Romanian Devils, TeG (The Elder Gods). Introduction An interesting tourney as all matches are to be played in -CD mode (Captain’s Draft). For those of you who do not know what -CD mode is all about: Captains Draft. 24 random heroes are selected. Then Blue [...]

Published by DaekinHO on January 24, 2010 1:25 pm1 Comments

Twilight Tournament Winners 18 Jan To 23 Jan 2010

Tournament winners for 18 January – 23 January 2010 on Twilight. Hungry Hungry Felhounds FFA Competition First Place Lexiol Second Place R34p3R–X One versus One DotA Tournament First Place Raikiri Second Place CheeseBurgaEddy Two versus Two DotA Tournament First Place .SnoW GeNo_CiDe Second Place mR_SmurF BlAcK-Fly Random DotA Team Tournament First Place GRIM Nox eezy [...]

Published by dean0 on January 23, 2010 11:24 am1 Comments

DotA Weekly — Pro Tip From A Top: Killing Creep Is Very Important, Remember To Last Hit!

Don’t underestimate the importance of killing creeps! Just remember, no matter how frowned upon the strategy of “turtling” is, it wins matches… time and time again. The truth is that, every hero needs some gold to do well. Often people miss a great deal of gold from simply being lazy. Missing free creeps in an [...]

Published by lemon-grass on January 19, 2010 7:53 pm3 Comments

Twilight Tournament Winners 11 Jan To 17 Jan 2010

Tournament winners for 11 January – 17 January 2010 on Twilight. One versus One DotA Tournament First Place – .SnoW Second Place – Mortal Random Team DotA Tournament First Place GRIM .SnoW Frenzy RipInc Mr_Miagi Second Place Mortal clitsybananas STR1D3R Xenophyl Nox Melee Warcraft Frozen Throne Tournament First Place – inDoMiTable Second Place – vlerkies [...]

Published by dean0 on January 17, 2010 5:51 pm1 Comments

DotA Version 6.66 Is Out — View The Changes, Download The Map, Discus!

About three weeks ago we saw the release of DotA 6.65, where today we’ve been blessed with 6.66. Download: Local Twilight Link — Login with your Twilight Account GetDotA.com Link A couple of cool things to comment on: “Scroll of Town Portal – Double clicking on scrolls now automatically targets your fountain” Doom Bringer – [...]

Published by dean0 on January 14, 2010 11:15 am9 Comments

DotA Weekly: Pro Tip From A Pro — The Wonders Behind Replay Analysis & How To Do It

Replay’s are fun, exciting, entertaining and can tell/teach you a lot about DotA, so they are definitely a must if you look to improve yourself as a player and at the same time want to just enjoy great DotA games at their best. Replay Analysis is important for DotA development and improvement as a player, [...]

Published by DaekinHO on January 13, 2010 4:49 pm8 Comments

Under The Spotlight With SlightOfHand – AKA Smke

Name: Justin Probyn Age: 19 Occupation: Student Twilight user level: Slight of hand 43 / smke 11 How long have you been playing DotA I have been playing casually for about 7 years, but only competitively for 3 How did it all start? Haha, well I used to play Yu-gi-ho up at stadium on main [...]

Published by Xylon on January 2, 2010 5:02 pm19 Comments

DotA Weekly: Pro Tip From A Pro — Using The Scroll of Town Portal

Behold the wonder of a “Scroll of Town Portal” Now many of you might be thinking, “OMF, NOOB TIP, WTF! TEACH ME HOW TO STACK ORBS RATHER” but pay close attention as this little item is one of the most important (besides skadi, radiance & mjollnir OFC BRA!!! ). THE FACTS Cost: 135 gold Bought [...]

Published by DaekinHO on December 18, 2009 12:32 pm11 Comments

OC LAN Sees An Eventful JJ vs dedA Game

As SMM comes to a close and the Alienware 30-day Tourney taking over, another tournament fell over the month of November – THE OC DOTA TOURNEY OF COURSE! Garena was unfortunately down during this time period, but the following replay has been released! THE GAME dedA vs JJ – Replay Game Length: 57:08 The Sentinel [...]

Published by DaekinHO on December 9, 2009 12:34 pm13 Comments

MYM|MaNia- Interview

Hi MYM|MaNia-, Tell us a bit about yourself and how you started off with DotA. Hey all, in Dota you know me as MaNia-, but in my private life my name is Brian and I am at the moment studying to be a multimediadesigner, which is pretty much making commercials or creating websites etc. I [...]

Published by HamstaDawG on November 25, 2009 9:04 pm2 Comments

UCL Week 1: Replay of the Week

Written by Michael “Orange” Masson Week one of the UCL got off to flyer last week with wins going to clans Star, PhD, dedA, DUC, 8or9 and Crap. One of the weeks highlight replays was the clash between CraP and NsF, captained by Magicman and Doppl3r respectively. NsF are a recently reformed clan, looking to [...]

Published by HamstaDawG on November 13, 2009 2:49 pm8 Comments

DotA Version 6.65 — The New Nightcrawler Hero?

IceFrog announced in his blog that 6.65’s release is just around the corner. Everyone seems to be wondering as to what are the changes? Not helping everyone’s curiosity, and speculation, is this video posted on his blog. IceFrog has everyone wondering what the new hero is, as it looks powerful in this short 52 sec [...]

Published by phANT1m on November 11, 2009 4:16 pm3 Comments

AGASA Looking To Phase Out DotA — HoN To The Rescue?

South Africa’s largest online league, AGASA, has announced a contentious decision to phase out support for the popular game Defense of the Ancients (DotA) in 2010. This is, according to the AGASA Committee, in order to orientate the organisation’s full resources towards a potential replacement in the hero-based RTS genre: S2 Games’ Heroes of Newerth [...]

Published by dean0 on November 5, 2009 11:26 pm120 Comments

High Definition Gaming – New kidz on the block

A new gaming organisation that has been formed, and these guys are mostly into their FPS games. While FPS might be the name of the game, they are however interested in moving towards other games. HD is currently headed by Jared “discretE”, and they are on the rise as they have recruited some of the [...]

Published by discrete on November 4, 2009 8:54 pm5 Comments

Let the battle begin! Twilight’s Unofficial DotA League

The Unofficial DotA League will start on the 2nd of November, 2009. The league will be a ‘warm-up’ for the official Twilight League which should kick off in a couple of months time. The league will see 14 teams face off in a 14 week long race to become the champions. The 14 teams included [...]

Published by dean0 on November 1, 2009 4:34 pm2 Comments
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