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Irregular Reconnaissance: Anime #95

March 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Netflix’s DOTA: Dragon’s Blood is much better than I feared while, sadly, “Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies moved to a starter town?” is a bit of a dud. Jujutsu Kaisen, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! and Dr. Stone are also covered in this review series.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: dota 2, dr. stone, Irregular Reconnaissance, Jujutsu Kaisen, reviews

DOTA anime: Dragon’s Blood gets a new trailer and character art

March 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Netflix and Valve’s anime project for DOTA has been given a two-minute plus trailer ahead of the show’s release on the 25th of March.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: dota 2, netflix, trailers, valve

Sophie Katssby cosplaying as Arcana Queen of Pain

February 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cosplay by Sophie Katssby as DOTA 2’s Arcana Queen of Pain. Photography by Just Moolti.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cosplay, dota 2

Valve and Netflix showcase DOTA: Dragon’s Blood anime

February 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Valve and Netflix have worked together on an eight-episode animated series for DOTA: Dragon’s Blood in the anime style.

Filed Under: Anime Tagged With: dota 2, netflix, trailers, valve

Is the Dutch solution to Loot Boxes more evil than the problem?

July 25, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Transparent Loot Box - DotA 2

The Dutch banned Loot Boxes and Valve removed them in June. Wesley Yin-Poole has a nice write up the situation over at Eurogamer. In essence; Loot Boxes are gambling. You pay money for them and don’t know what you’ll get back. The situation was made even worse (or more addictive) with loot box trading and […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: dota 2, legal, valve

Which game tournaments have the biggest prizes? [infographic]

July 13, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Just how much money could you make as a professional gamer? Tens of thousands? Hundreds? This infographic from MrGamerZ looks a whole host of video game competitions and their prize pots. The results might surprise you. At the time of publication the largest prize is for the International DOTA 2 competition held in Seattle in […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: dota 2, infographics

Too cute Defense of the Ancients 2 plush

November 24, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are you a fan of Defense of the Ancients? This a MOBA mod for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. It’s based on the Aeon of Strife map for Starcraft and pits two teams; the Sentinel and the Scourge against one another. The second DotA was an official game; put together by Valve and released in […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: DLC, dota, dota 2, plushies

DOTA 2: Mortred cosplay

December 4, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mortred is a phantom assassin from Valve’s DOTA 2 – the sequel to Defense of the Ancients mod for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. It is astandalone game. You can follow the blog and sign up for free invites on the official site. Mortred is a melee hero, able to do a huge amount of […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cosplay, dota 2

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