This year's International Battle Pass for Dota 2 will be adding a multiplayer cooperative campaign to the game. The first Valve release containing some actual story in a good long while will see the scorching light of day later this month.

Game developers have eight weeks to dump loot boxes from their games after the Netherlands Gaming Authority decided to be the first to crack down on them. Namely, a study showed that four games are in violation of their Better Gaming Act.

Yes, Valve is still making games, but probably not the games you want. The PC gaming giant has announced that they are currently working on a project called Artifact - a DOTA themed card game. There isn't a face or palm big enough on this planet.

The latest Dota 2 update is aiming to make the initial experience more friendly for new players, both in terms of mechanical accessibility, as well as smoothing out interactions with its famously competitive and toxic playerbase.

Dota 2's official site is back up and update 7.00 changes the game substantialy

Valve just published some data showing Steam concurrent user logins surpasing 14 million