DOTA 2 - The "IceFrog's" New Project (2011)

October 13, 2010 - Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Dota 2, the sequel to one large one best-selling game in the world.

 
Released to PC & Mac in 2011, Dota 2 promised to take a unique blend of RTS and RPG Action Online has made ​​Dota popular with tens of millions of gamers and expand in all game content.

Once a patent from IceFrog then Valve will make a new project that is separate from the second DOTA and Warcraft 3 and will have a hero more than 100 plus new social features as well as the features of "AI bots" if any player leave when playing. DOTA 2 will only be released to the multiplayer and for single player, while not yet clear confirmation.

The developer is IceFrog own contracted by Valve from 2009 as well as using Valve's Source Engine

Confirmed: Dota 2 At Gamescom, Out 2011:On the one hand this isn’t too much of a surprise, after how earnestly the rumour mill has been grinding lately. On the other – well, given how good Valve are at fooling folk, official confirmation that their competitive strategy game Dota 2 will indeed be on public display at Gamescom later this month is a pretty big deal. Oh yeah, and they reckon the game itself will be released “later this year.” Woo!

Dota 2 (an entirely lower case name appears to be the official take, incidentally, suggesting it’s perhaps not entirely an acronym for Defence of the Ancients any more) won’t be playable as such, but we’ll get to see “the 16 best Dota teams in the world” compete in a “double elimination playoff format” tournament that they’re calling The International. The teams in question are listed here. Oh yes: the winning bunch will walk home with $1 million. Good grief. Oh, why didn’t I become a pro-gamer? Other than, y’know, the complete lack of ability and all that.

So it’ll be staking its claim as a competitive game for the trueblue Dota hardcore, but what about the rest of us? Hopefully we’ll get some sense of that at Gamescom, which runs in Cologone, Germany for 17-21 August.

Oh, and Valve reveal that this has been with some elements of the Dota community for a little while already:
“The International is the first public Dota 2 event and will give the tens of millions of gamers playing Dota around the world their first look at the new game,” said Gabe Newell, president and founder of Valve. “I have had the good fortune to watch the competitors as they prepare for the tournament, and the level of play is extraordinary.”

Exciting! Is this a straight sequel, or will Dota 2 be to DotA as Team Fortress 2 was to Team Fortress? Answers -and new images, hopefully – finally await, in a mere two and a half weeks. 

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System Requirements

DotA 2 Minimum System Requirements:

• OS: Windows® 7 / Vista / Vista64 / XP
• Processor: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
• Memory: 1 GB for XP / 2GB for Vista
• Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible video card with 128 MB, Shader model 2.0. ATI X800, NVidia 6600 or better
• Hard Drive: At least 2.5 GB of free space
• Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

DotA 2 Recommended System Requirements:

• OS: Windows® 7 / Vista / Vista64 / XP
• Processor: Intel core 2 duo 2.4GHz
• Memory: 1 GB for XP / 2GB for Vista
• Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible video card with Shader model 3.0. NVidia 7600, ATI X1600 or better
• Hard Drive: At least 2.5 GB of free space
• Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

According to one of the members of DotA 2 staff, in case you can run Alien Swarm, you will be able to run DotA 2 since both games require same System specs to be played.

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