When it comes to innovation and risk-taking, few developers match up to Valve. Known for its immense success with Half-Life, Portal, and Team Fortress 2, the Washington-based developer certainly isn’t afraid to tread new ground or take risks. With the upcoming sequel to DOTA, it’s doing just that, applying an experimental business model to a [...]

The keenly anticipated sequel to DOTA – known to some as Defense of the Ancients – will be free-to-play, according to Valve boss Gabe Newell. The chief executive of the acclaimed game company stated that the game would use a ‘new’ free-to-play pricing model that hasn’t been used in any other free games, possibly to [...]