Blizzard DOTA is now ‘Blizzard All-Stars’

After a legal battle with Valve over the name ‘DOTA’ (Defense of the Ancients), Blizzard DOTA is now going to be named ‘Blizzard All-Stars’, which a totally-not-bitter Blizzard says “better represents the game”. 

Say goodbye to “Blizzard DOTA,” and say hello to “Blizzard All-Stars.” Blizzard Entertainment and Valve today announced a mutual agreement regarding the name “DOTA.” Valve will continue to use DOTA commercially, including DOTA 2, while Blizzard will preserve noncommercial use of DOTA for its community with regard to player-created maps for Warcraft 3 and StarCraft 2.

“We’re pleased that we could come to an agreement with Blizzard without drawing things out in a way that would benefit no one,” said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. “We both want to focus on the things our fans care about, creating and shipping great games for our communities.”

“Both Blizzard and Valve recognize that, at the end of the day, players just want to be able to play the games they’re looking forward to, so we’re happy to come to an agreement that helps both of us stay focused on that,” said Rob Pardo, executive vice president of game design at Blizzard Entertainment. “As part of this agreement, we’re going to be changing the name of Blizzard DOTA to Blizzard All-Stars, which ultimately better reflects the design of our game. We look forward to going into more detail on that at a later date.”

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