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Valve Announces Dota 2 128

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday October 14, 2010 @06:50AM from the new-and-improved-ways-for-people-to-call-you-terrible dept.

RulerOf writes "Just over a year after hiring IceFrog, the lead developer of the wildly popular DotA Allstars mod for Warcraft III, and the speculation surrounding Valve's recent trademark filing for the 'DotA' name, Valve has officially announced Dota 2. Gameplay of Dota 2 is being ported 'exactly' from the current DotA Allstars and includes every hero, but vast improvements are being made to the game including VoIP, a coaching system, in-game rewards, and AI that takes over for disconnected players. Lastly, it all runs on top of the Source engine. (GameInformer's website appears to be struggling right now though, as they had an exclusive on this story.)"

Comment Re:several interesting issues (Score 1) 647

by Ann1ka on Monday August 24, 2009 @04:50PM (#29177831) Attached to: Apple To Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard On August 28

What a load of bull.

1) What's your source for this information? It's not because Apple decided to charge just $29 for SL, that it's different from other point releases. Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard were all upgrades in license, but installed just fine on a clean system.

2) Support for non-intel is dropped, but most of the hardware from the previous age of Mac is already 4+ years old. Furthermore, there's nothing wrong with running Leopard on this hardware for another year, before finally considering a hardware update.

3) Of course they will stop selling 10.5. But that's really not a problem for intel-machines (starting beginning 2006). Merely PPC users who haven't upgraded to 10.5 yet, might want to do that now.

Comment Re:CPU Usage... (Score 2, Interesting) 251

by Ann1ka on Friday June 05, 2009 @09:52AM (#28221691) Attached to: Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux Dev Builds

If you like the OSX experience enough to stick with it. Why not give Safari 4 beta a try? It comes with better integration into OSX and has most of Chrome's features, with biggest miss being the sandboxing. It also uses the Webkit engine for rendering webpages, which is somewhat faster than Firefox's Gecko.

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