According to Gabe Newell is the ‘increasingly unlikely’ that Dota 2 is still in 2011, appears on the market. The ceo of Valve let loose that there will be a closed testing phase begins; a open b lwa tatest follows later.
When the Valve is in October finally the rumors about Dota 2 is confirmed, let the developer release that the strategy game is already in an advanced stage and so by the end of this year on the market would come. That is, however, becoming less and less likely, as was Valve founder and director Gabe Newell of GameSpot know. A reason for the postponement gives Newell does not, however, but he knew to report that there is ‘very soon’ a closed beta test of the game to start. Valve will be here a limited number of players to invite from the private downloadplatform Steam. There also follows an open beta test of the game, but Newell did not indicate the date on which it starts.
Dota 2 turned out for the first time playable at Gamescom 2011, Cologne gamebeurs to August 21, takes. Around the game, which is based on the popular Defense of the Ancients mod for Warcraft III, Valve here, a tournament with a prize pool of one million dollars. There was, however, only a select group of international teams to participate. Visitors and the press could only watch.