CowboyNeal On Dota 2, Modern Games, and Software Development

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Unless you don't care about PC gaming at all, by now you're aware of Valve's entry into the MOBA/ARTS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_real-time_strategy)genre, Dota 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_2). Despite still being in a closed beta, it's currently the number one game on Valve's Steam gaming service, and judging from Valve's earlier declaration regarding Steam on Linux (http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/06/05/1236221/steam-for-linux-will-launch-in-2012), it's only a matter of time, even if that time be a year or more, before we see Dota 2 come to Linux as well as Mac. Valve has big plans for Dota 2, no less big than what happened with Team Fortress 2, even if it took them a few years to get to where Team Fortress 2 is today. What makes the current state of Dota 2noteworthy, however, is that it has managed to displace Team Fortress 2 as Steam's most popular game, while still being tested in a closed beta."Read on for the rest of CowboyNeal's thoughts on games, and what it's like being a Slashdot poll option.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/07/11/174235/cowboyneal-on-dota-2-modern-games-and-software-development