Dota 2 Esports News

Tickets for the Esports World Cup 2026 are now live. Following the venue change, all previous ticket holders have been refunded, and new ticketing information is available.

After leaving their Dota 2 project in a hiatus in 2024, LGD Gaming is finally back and they decided to region-hop against the current going west to South America instead of the usual hop to the east.

Valve has released the list of invites for this year's International. Seven Dota 2 teams are directly invited to the tournament. This leaves the nine remaining slots to be given out through qualifiers.

DreamLeague Season 29 has concluded, and it is the first tournament played on Dota 2 patch 7.41c. The latest update had some pretty hefty nerfs, leading to a solid shake-up to the meta. In this article we will go through the most popular heroes at the event. We will also recap the most successful heroes and the most overrated as well.

BLAST Slam VII keeps the flame of DreamLeague Season 29 burning bright, starting shortly after the ESL tournament. Team Liquid are the defending champions for BLAST and could use the morale boost.

The DreamLeague Season 29 was full of surprises. On top of securing an Esports World Cup invite via ESL Pro Tour Points, PARIVISION also emerged as tournament champions after winning the Grand Final

Less than a week before the Qualifiers, PlayTime secured their spot at the Esports World Cup by receiving a direct invite through ESL Pro Tour Points after defeating BetBoom Team during the DreamLeague Season 29 Playoffs.

Magomed "Collapse" Khalilov had a quick interview with a panel, sharing how he practises late game, feelings on the new coach, and why Mars isn't viable right now.

Ben "Noxville" Steenhuisen has made a name for himself as one of the best data analysts in professional Dota 2, and recently, he shared his opinion on the possible list of invited teams to The International 2026.

The world's biggest esports event just found a new home. The Esports World Cup 2026 is officially moving to Paris, France, marking the first time in the tournament's history that it will be hosted outside of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

There have been a lot of changes to the Neutral Item system, and in this list we will look at the items themselves, without any enchantments.

DreamLeague Season 29 is past the Group Stage, and now we will check which teams got to each bracket in the Playoffs, who got eliminated, and how teams performed compared to our expectations before the tournament started.

Unfortunately for Heroic, after leaving Dota 2, they recognized that their organization no longer met the requirements for the 2026 EF Club Partner Program and decided to leave the project.

After a short break and a couple of smaller tournaments, we are back to the ESL Pro Tour, with DreamLeague Season 29 deciding the final round of points before the Esports World Cup 2026.

An unlikely partnership, but one that is as real as anything else; ESL FACEIT Group (EFG) has announced a long-term deal with none other than Italian luxury car brand Automobili Lamborghini. This means that Lamborghini will be the Official Automotive Partner for DreamHack events moving forward, starting with DreamHack Atlanta (May 15-17) in the US.

David "Parker" Nicho Flores talked about his salary when he played for Heroic and uncovered part of the mystery surrounding the cost of maintaining a competitive team in the Dota 2 professional circuit.