$20 Mil Dota 2 International Main Event Starts Today With a record-setting, community funded prize purse of over $20 million, the sixth annual International Dota 2 Championships begins today at Seattle's Key Arena. The International's Main Event features 16 of the world's top teams battling for a spot in Saturday's final match. Those unable to attend in person can tune in via many interna... more.

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The International Dota 2 Championships (TI5) is still a few weeks off yet this year's community-funded prize pool has already shattered previous records with this year's purse currently over $16.5 mil, up from last year's record setting $10.9 mil. In addition to the record setting prize purse, this year's International will mark the introduction of viewing parties in over 400 movie theaters acr... more.

Valve today announced the next CS:GO Major Championship: ESL One Cologne 2015, featuring a $250,000 prize pool. Taking place August 20th - 23rd at the LANXESS arena in Cologne, Germany, the upcoming CS:GO tournament will follow the progress of the Legends of ESL One Katowice 2015, who will be joined by eight Challengers decided by offline regional qualifiers. The event's matches will be streame... more.

Valve today announced a $250,000 prize pool for the DreamHack CS:GO Championship at DreamHack Winter 2014. Taking place in Jönköping, Sweden from November 27-29, the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will feature eight quarter-finalists from ESL One Cologne 2014. They will be joined by eight teams to be decided by regional qualifiers. All the action from the Finals will be ... more.

The world’s largest independent eSports brand, ESL, broke industry records once again with its world class ESL One product. Hosted at gamescom, ESL One Cologne 2014 saw the best Counter Strike: Global Offensive teams from all over the world compete for US$250,000 in community-funded prize money as a peak online concurrent viewership (both in-game and on Twitch) of 409,368 watched the action unfo... more.

Over 20 million unique online viewers dialed in to catch The 2014 International Dota 2 Championships. The peak concurrent online viewer number for this year's event was well over 2 million, more than doubling last year's peak. Official Website: http://www.dota2.com Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/570/ ESPN: http://www.WatchESPN.com Trailer: Screenshots: ... more.

Valve today announced that coverage of The International Dota 2 Championships will be presented in collaboration with ESPN on its live multi-screen sports network, ESPN3. In addition, an exclusive show previewing the final match will be presented on ESPN2 on Sunday at 8:30 pm Pacific. Live access to ESPN2 is also available on digital platforms via WatchESPN. This year's International, happening... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling games (such as Dota 2, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced a $250,000 community-funded prize pool for The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Championship. The CS:GO crowd-funding initiative began several weeks ago with the release of The Arms ... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the release of The Arms Deal Update for its tactical first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which allows players to collect, buy, sell and trade decorated in-game weapons for the first time. The Update wi... more.