We had a little chat with Anthony Nell, team manger of Flipside Tactics South Africa, on the MGOs fully fledge branch who are now competing in the Telkom DGL Masters.

Valve have released a Winter Battle Pass for Dota 2. It comes packed with a lot of extra goodies and potential rewards, as well as the Shanghai Major Compendium.

Here are you 16 teams for Dota 2 Shanghai Major. Welcome back Alliance, who got a direct invite, and a sparse meta which should bring about an exciting showcase of Dota 2.

Following the huge Reborn Update last year, Dota 2 haemorrhaged a rather large number of players during September (nearly 100 000 or so). It was a short lived dip though it seems, because since then, the playerbase has been climbing onward and upward steadily, and has finally reached the significant 1 million peak player mark again.

Being smack in the middle of the festive season, we fully expected Valve to provide a festive Frostivus update for Dota 2. Sadly, they haven’t – there is no snow to be seen. What they’ve given instead however, is something far better. Say hello to the balance of power update, which has just about everything a Dota 2 fan could ever want for Christmas.

After almost two years in retirment, syndreN has made his return to competitive Dota 2 with Steak Gaming.

After a great year of competitive gaming BHG plans to end it off in style with one last tournament. Who will be crowned the last champions on 2015?

The stats are in and October showed continued growth for digital gaming, but some of the names at the top have shifted.