{"id":12978,"date":"2011-07-18T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dota-2-coming-soon-to-steam-says-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/12978-dota-2-coming-soon-to-steam-says-valve","title":{"rendered":"DOTA 2 coming \u201csoon\u201d to Steam, says Valve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden deep within the occult text supporting a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/5856\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam update,<\/a> lies a dread prophecy of the dark elders &ndash; &ldquo;Soon, Dota 2 will be delivered using it.&rdquo; That eerie rumbling is the very earth trembling in fear. Or perhaps the quickening of a hundred thousand nerds&rsquo; hearts.<\/p>\n<p>But how soon is soon? Speculation has it that Valve is prepping some kind of big to-do over at Gamescom in Germany next month, and now similar speculation suggests that the company might just unveil and launch the game at the same time. Valve&rsquo;s just crazy like that.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a sequel (or, perhaps more properly, an actual real game) to the somewhat inexplicably popular Defense of the Ancients mod for Warcraft III. It&rsquo;s mostly just clicking stuff and calling other people &ldquo;noobs&rdquo;, but whatever makes your fun.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not yet known whether the game will be free to play &ndash; as the original was &ndash; but it remains a possibility, since Valve recently moved Team Fortress 2 over into that category.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15720-DOTA-2-coming-to-Steam-%E2%80%9Csoon%E2%80%9D-says-Valve?p=476656#post476656\" target=\"_self\">Discuss DotA 2<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But how soon is soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}