Milikki's Amazing DotA Comics!

This Dota Fan Art has been made by a talented girl from China. Quite famous in China, xfy890228 brought her marvellous works into light on the official forums.

You can enjoy some of her amazing arts at the Official DotA Forum [You might need to register first... put the referral name "phoenix" if you like ;) ] or her original works in Chinese at her blog.

Nirvana.int players giving paid tutorials!

So, Nirvana.int professionals are onto something new in DotA... giving paid tutorials!

From Demon's blog...


Recently, I've received a lot of requests for personal help and private DotA lessons so that I can help you and your team reach your maximum potential.


After teaching several people and talking to a couple of my team members, we've decided to offer private lessons in whatever form requested (Practice 1v1's, Replay Analysis, Theorycrafting, etc.)


Merlini, Kuroky, Demon and Fear will be the ones offering help. This will all be done via Ventrilo/Skype, payments will me made through PayPal.

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Awesome News: Reconnection in DotA now possible

Icefrog says...

The first version of Varlock's reconnection tool is almost ready for release. We've been testing it in real DotA games for the past few weeks and it has worked very well. We've had many players disconnect only to reconnect moments later, saving otherwise lost games.

The code for this tool (both client and server) will be open source so that anyone can build upon it and integrate it into their platforms and communities.

It's a great advancement for the DotA World. A blessing for the league players while pubbers will get stripped off some of their excuses for leaving the game. ;) Also, we won't lose replays due to save reload. :D

On a side note, I hope you did notice that this tool has not actually been released yet! We still need to wait for a while.