As you might have heard by now, DK and defending champions Na’Vi are the first teams to be invited to The International.
This year we are moving to Benaroya Hall, located here in beautiful sunny Seattle. It will be held during the last weekend of August, from the 31st to September 2nd.
For those that want to catch up on last year’s event, the archive is located here.
We will be releasing information on how to acquire tickets in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for details.
Team Phantom Lancer is back and they don’t like the way you’re looking at them.
You can’t go in alone, here – take these:
You can find the latest changelog is here, no wait: here, nope: here!
Don’t worry, your eyes are not playing tricks on you! That is indeed a brand new HUD you’re seeing. Today’s update includes the first of many upcoming revisions to our UI, starting with the in-game HUD.
When looking at feedback that we’ve gotten related to our interface, the first concerns we decided to address were:
To more efficiently use space in wider resolutions, we’ve made adjustments to the layout of the stats section. This also allowed us to include Move Speed as one of the stats readily available to players.
The Courier UI now exposes the state of the little guy, and allows item delivery with just a single click. Glyph state is also clearly exposed and easier to reach when you most need it.
And finally we’ve also updated the look of our item icons.
As always, we would love to hear what you think of the changes, so feel free to leave feedback over in our UI forums.
Also released today is the Dota 2 replay parsing tool. This tool allows technically minded community members to extract data straight out of game replays. You can check out the technical documentation here. We can’t wait to see what kind of awesome data visualizations people come up with.
Meanwhile the community’s as busy as always, peep this:
Changelog? Yep, we got that changelog.
Everyone raise your glass and welcome Brewmaster back into the world of Dota.
These community highlights just stumbled onto this blog:
Update notes can be found here. Please read responsibly.
Yep, we are back with a brand new update.
This week we see the return of Random Draft mode. In this mode only 20 heroes are available and players take turns picking.
A wild pack of community highlights has been spotted!
We’ll see you again next week, you might want to get a designated driver by then.
Changelog is available here.
We celebrate Happy Bear Pun Week a day earlier as Lone Druid joins Dota 2′s cast of heroes.
Community things:
Bear in mind that there will not be an update next week as we will be hibernating during that time.
Today’s bearlog is available here.
Bear.
Is there a full moon out? Because Lycan is on the prowl.
One thing to check out in today’s update is the new Hero Performance Rating section in your Persona page. Your performance ratings show how well you play each hero compared to other players of similar skill.
These stats are only available to you. Your ratings will become more accurate the more you play, so get cracking!
This week we are also increasing the number of invites being sent out. In addition, we’ll be giving the most active Dota 2 players some more copies to gift to friends. This will be done on a regional basis based on available capacity, starting with US West.
Oh, these might be relevant to your interests:
Finally, today’s changelog is available here.
Tonight you might want to sleep with your lights on because Shadow Demon has returned.
In today’s update you will find your usual collection of fixes and new features including parity with Dota’s 6.74 release and the ability to share unit control with your team mates.
Thanks to everyone that jumped on the Test Build and helped us test this update.
The full changelog is available here.
This week’s update is now available in the main Dota 2 client. You can find the changelog here.
We’re changing the way we release updates once more and will be updating the Test Build on Wednesdays. It will then be promoted to the Dota 2 release build the next day if no major issues are found.
Now for some community news:
Fear the dark, for you are in the presence of Bane.
Today’s changelog is available here.
We are looking forward to The Defense Grand Final this weekend, between Na’Vi and Quantic Gaming. Head over to joindota.com for more details and times. You can also find this over there.
As per our new release schedule, the Test Build has also been updated. You can check out its changelog here.
