'Dota 2': The Public Beta is Coming Earlier Than Expected

Good news for which those who are eagerly waiting for 'Dota 2'. Valve just announced today, on the official blog of the game, they forward the start of the beta of the game sooner than expected and that it is likely that by 2012 we can access the public beta.

The advancement of the dates is caused by the good reception closed players are providing 'Dota 2'. The original plan of Valve was not to open the game until not reached the number of Heroes 'Dota', but have found it worthless:

"The response that we see is that people want to play it, even if there many heroes that we have yet to implement." In addition, we have seen that players are already in the beta are doing everything we can to teach others his games. "So we believe that our original plan was stupid"

So the current version of the game's development is that Valve use for public testing. Currently, there are no secure dates, but the developers insist that once they end up a couple of more arenas, may throw open the game, that you will be adding characters and updates.

GamesCom 2011: 'Dota 2', Valve Released The Official Trailer. Captures Gift Set

Let's continue with some more material belonging to the GamesCom 2011, which officially kicks off tomorrow in the German city of Cologne. In this case touches a look at the first trailer 'Dota 2' Valve, to the delight of staff. Thanks gesture to take all we have advised of the existence of this video.

I must say that it is a cinematic, so no gameplay at the moment in this video. To try to alleviate this fact also will let the occasional capture 'Dota 2' Valve has hung around. Keep an eye the moment the trailer:

'Dota 2' itself is an interesting product because it is the sequel as a game of a custom map called Defense of the Ancients to be found in 'Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion 'The Frozen Throne' and, in turn, is based on the Aeon of Strife map 'StarCraft'.

From Valve say that despite the perspective used in 'Dota 2' would not be fair to classify the game within the genre of RTS (RTS). They do not want to put a 'Dota 2' in the sack of RPG much the split level 1 character and can reach 25. In the end we say 'Dota 2' is a Action RTS. That is, a strategy game in real time with lots of action and rolero elements.

Besides, Valve has announced a competition called The International. It will be held at Gamescom 2011 from tomorrow, 17 to 21 and involved 16 teams from around the world will have to see the faces 'Dota 2' to fight for a juicy prize: nothing more and nothing less than a million dollars. We see piques live through the game's official website.

I leave you with a couple of screen-shots of the game, that you may be getting an idea of how it looks:

 
'Dota 2' should go on sale for Mac and PC by the end of the year.