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Valve starts inviting players to ‘Artifact’ Beta 2.0
‘Dota Underlords’ has more people playing now than ‘Artifact’ ever did
Just a day after going live, the Dota Underlords beta is off to a great start. According to stats from SteamDB, as of Friday night it had over 84,000 players at once -- higher than Valve's troubled Dota 2 spinoff Artifact ever had. It topped out at a...
Trolls swamp unused Twitch category with pirated shows and porn
Twitch just learned first-hand about the challenges of moderating live video. Trolls have hijacked the site's largely unused category for Valve's Artifact (which previously had few if any streamers) to livestream material that most definitely violat...
Valve freezes updates on ‘Artifact’ to face ‘deep-rooted’ issues
Last year Valve launched a Dota 2 card game spin-off that took aim Hearthstone and Gwent, but according to the team, Artifact hasn't lived up to anyone's expectations. In a blog post, Valve announced it's dropping the old plan of developing a stream...
Valve updates ‘Dota’ card game with open tournaments and chat options
Valve has delivered the first large upgrade to Artifact since it premiered in late November, and it's clear there's lots of headroom for the Dota card game to grow. The 1.1 update adds short Open Tournaments that anyone can join. You don't have to...
Valve’s pay-to-play ‘Dota’ card game will be released November 28th
Valve's next title Artifact, a trading-card game, will be released November 28th. Digital trading card games like Gwent from Witcher developer CDProjekt Red and Hearthstone from Blizzard have been doing surprisingly well lately. That's probably somew...
Valve Reveals Official Dota Card Game Artifact for 2018
The Valve company did not wait till the end of the Dota Tournament to announce the release of its spanking new video game. The game is not Half-Life 3 or Counter Strike: GO or Dota 2 for that matter....
Valve reveals ‘Artifact,’ the official ‘Dota’ card game
Tonight, during Valve's "The International" Dota 2 esports tournament the company announced it's making a spinoff card game associated with its popular MOBA. Other than its name, Artifact, a brief teaser trailer and a release window of 2018, we didn'...
Apollo 11 Lunar Artifact Accidentally Sold by US Government
During the Apollo 11 moon mission, a bag of lunar soil was used which is now the source of a wrangle. This bag was there on board the mission when the astronauts flew to the moon in 1969.It is...