Irvine, California - Back in October 2010, Blizzard Entertainment announced Blizzard Dota, a Starcraft 2 custom map. After seeing Dota 2's impact at Gamescom 2011, a Blizzard employee revealed to the public that the version of the Dota game shown at BlizzCon 2010 has been "flattened".
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"Dota is a very addictive game that chases the vast majority of people off because their team mates are screaming at them. We've always felt Dota has a very accessible, easy to approach fun game deep down inside that's just waiting to come out."
-- Jonny Ebbert, Senior Designer at Blizzard Entertainment
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Unlike Valve's Dota 2 and S2 Games' Heroes of Newerth, Blizzard's Dota will not be a stand-alone game. It will be a modification of the real-time strategy game, Starcraft 2. Blizzard is aiming to release Blizzard Dota around the time of Heart of the Swarm's release date.
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