{"id":62786,"date":"2014-03-25T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T06:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62786"},"modified":"2014-03-25T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T06:58:18","slug":"dota-2-documentary-by-valve-is-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62786-dota-2-documentary-by-valve-is-a-hit","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 documentary by Valve is a hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve&#8217;s Free to Play, a documentary about the lives of three professional Dota 2 players as they prepare for a $1 million dollar tournament, has garnered 5.5 million views since it release on 19 March.<\/p>\n<p>The film was produced internally at Valve Software, which has hailed Free to Play as &#8220;one of the largest debuts for any documentary film&#8221;\u00a0, and was given a 9.3\/10 rating on movie review site\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3203290\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMDb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Free to Play is, as the title alludes to, free to watch for anyone with an internet connection. The film can be found on YouTube (check the video below), <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/245550\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/movie\/free-to-play\/id838598746\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> for a price of 10$.<\/p>\n<p>It is a feature-length documentary, clocking in at 1h15 mins, so you might have to watch this over the course of the day. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UjZYMI1zB9s?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2014\/03\/24\/valves-dota-2-documentary-free-to-play-tallies-over-5-5-mil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joystiq<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/62776-best-smartphones-for-gaming.html\">Best smartphones for gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62782-violent-black-characters-in-video-games-fuel-racism.html\">Violent black characters in video games fuel racism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/62777-best-laptop-graphics-chipsets.html\">Best laptop graphics chipsets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Free to Play&#8221; has been watched over 5.5 million times within the first week of its release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":55372,"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":[2],"tags":[637,2218,1994,9212,21,697],"class_list":["post-62786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dota","tag-dota-2","tag-free-to-play","tag-gaming-documentary","tag-headline","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62786","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62787,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62786\/revisions\/62787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}