{"id":56259,"date":"2013-07-12T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T11:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56259"},"modified":"2013-07-12T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T11:28:40","slug":"dota-2-finally-gets-linux-and-mac-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/56259-dota-2-finally-gets-linux-and-mac-support","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 finally gets Linux and Mac support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Dota 2 officially launched on 10 July following a lengthy beta period, Valve has added a number of updates to the free-to-play MOBA game, including Linux and Mac support.<\/p>\n<p>Linux and Mac gamers will be pleased to know that they can get their hands dirty with some hero-on-hero battles, and Valve has also listed the minimum requirements for each platform.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum Mac OS X Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OS X Lion 10.7<\/li>\n<li>4GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>4GB Hard drive space<\/li>\n<li>nVidia 320M or higher, or\u00a0Radeon 7000 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 or higher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Minimum Linux System Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu 12.04<\/li>\n<li>Dual core from Intel or\u00a0AMD at 2.8 GHz<\/li>\n<li>4GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>nVidia GeForce 8600\/9600GT<\/li>\n<li>ATI\/AMD Radeaon HD2600\/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11)<\/li>\n<li>OpenGL 2.1<\/li>\n<li>4GB Hard Drive Space<\/li>\n<li>OpenAL Compatible Sound Card<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To check out the details on the new hero and other tweaks, head over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.dota2.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dota 2 dev forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9.333333015441895px; font-weight: bold;\">Source:\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 9.333333015441895px; font-weight: bold;\" title=\"Dota 2\" href=\"http:\/\/dev.dota2.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dota 2<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Dota 2 news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/56150-dota-2-launches-on-steam.html\">Dota 2 launches on Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/54224-dota-2-breaks-steam-record-again.html\">Dota 2 breaks Steam record, again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/54031-steam-trading-cards-introduced-by-valve.html\">Steam Trading Cards introduced by Valve<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/53557-dota-2-national-trials-produces-winner.html\">Dota 2 national trials produces winner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu and Apple-powered gamers get a dose of Dota 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":56151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,6514,2218,85,697],"class_list":["post-56259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-defence-of-the-ancients-2","tag-dota-2","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56259","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56261,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56259\/revisions\/56261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}