Valve files 'DOTA' trademark

@Mach2
DID YOU FORGET? EVERYTHING IS MUCH BETTER IN CAPS!

@Peej

Thank you.

Valve has 200+ employees. Their projects typically consist of around 30-40 people, more if it's something xbox hueg like Half-Life 2. The team being led by IceFrog is different than the team working on the next Half-Life game.

@Peej They're busy making hats

I'd rather not know about Episode 3, to be honest. We all know it's coming. I don't like when games like Final Fantasy 13 are announced years before their release, hyped to oblivion, then turn out average.

@liquidsoap89

Now why would they do that? Then you would know that is officially coming, lol it be awesome just to come home from work/school and see a commercial saying Half-Life 3 was coming out the very next day.

Imo anyway

@Icupnimpn2

You can get some great DOTA-esque action right now with League of Legends.

Careful though, it's addictive!

@SomeDudeFromOz

Oooops! The whole point of my reply was to mention the LoL is free!

@Acosta02

This would be beautiful.

@Mortegro

DotA is a game where there are two more-or-less identical teams on the opposite sides of a valley. Each team has a number of players that are heroes, units that can level up over time and equip items. Each hero also has a series of unique abilities. Each team also has lanes of combat where automated units are constantly spawned through at the same pace for each side. There are various chokepoints in the lanes that have towers controlled by the AI. These towers attack units and heroes of the opposing team. The ultimate goal of the game is to reach the other side's ancient, which is in the center of a large base where units are spawned from and where they split off into the lanes. Killing the ancient wins the game.

@Sythe2o0

And for those of you that have no idea what genre of game this is, it is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game, not quite an rts.

Now go google MOBA!