Valve Confirms DotA 2 for 2011

The rumors are true: Valve is publishing an extensively advanced version of Defense of the Ancients in 2011.

Valve has at last declared that it's working at a game named DotA 2 after rumors previously showed that the studio was throwing its hat into the world of Defense of the Ancients, a massively common action-RTS gameplay style that 1st popped up in a user-created map for Warcraft III. A DotA developer called "IceFrog" joined Valve last year and Valve followed it up with a DotA trademark filing two months ago, so the announcement is anything but a surprise.