Dota 2

Good News for Dota Fans!

According to Game Informer, DOTA 2 runs on Valve's Source engine. The full roster of heroes from DOTA-Allstars will be brought over, along with items, upgrade paths, and skills. The differences arise in the migration to the Source engine, which includes some graphical upgrades and voice chat. The team is reworking the visual style to accent important information, and more voice character lines will be included. Bots will fill in for disconnected players or for skirmishes, but Valve is keeping the focus on a multiplayer experience. There will also be a new coaching system which lets veteran players help out newcomers.

Known only as Icefrog to the DotA community, the mod designer announced that he's now in charge of a team over at Valve.

Icefrog posted the following notice on the official DotA website:

"I have some really awesome news I'd like to share with you guys. I am now leading a team at Valve! I finally have all the resources needed to do some very exciting stuff that you guys will love. I look forward to revealing more specific details when the time is right"

DotA 2 expected to launch on Mac and PC in 2011
Lookin forward for it ^^

And thanks to a fren of mine aka pretender for sharing this info, cheers bro!