What does a hero truly need? That is for YOU to decide. But if you happen to decide that Dolby® 7.1 surround sound technology is the sort of thing a hero like you could use, try the GameCom 780 headset with official Dota 2 headband.



Valve is proud to announce that it has entered into a merchandise licensing agreement with Plantronics to bring you not only this superlative Dota-themed headset, but a digital cosmetic item that unlocks with your purchase: A special weapon, the popular Battlefury, especially for use by Faceless Void. Headset is available at Plantronics or at The Valve Store.

Some of you have been asking around for some wallpaper sized images of recent Dota artwork that you can't get through the usual channels.

Here is Crystal Maiden decked out in her Snowdrop bundle.
Here are the instruction panel illustrations for The Greeviling game mode. 2560x1900 and 1728x1800.

If you'd like to see wallpapers for other artwork, drop us a line and we'll post them here as well.

Another set of Workshop requirements and source assets have been published to the Workshop Requirements page. Lycan, Chen, Clinkz, Phantom Assassin, Phantom Lancer, Pugna, and Outworld Destroyer are now available.

If you submitted your item before the automated submission tool was released, please re-upload your item data using the new tool. You don't need to create an entirely new workshop entry. Just update your existing workshop entry. The 'imported' tag is automatically added by the uploading tool and tells us that your item can be one-click imported. This lets us review your assets very quickly. If you re-upload your asset using the new tool you can add the 'imported' tag if it doesn't already exist.

If we haven't released workshop requirements for a hero yet, the tool will report that the max polycount for an item is 0 and will prevent you from submitting. For now, focus on creating items for the heroes that have requirements and submit them using the tool. This will greatly increase the chances of your item getting shipped.

Here's a cool guide on YouTube, created by Matt White, for taking your item from Maya to Dota 2.

We've added Workshop requirements and downloadable source assets for several new heroes to the Workshop Requirements page. You can now start to submit items for these heroes:

• Brewmaster
  
• Lone Druid
  
• Ogre Magi
  
• Morphling
  

Several more heroes will follow soon.

If you're like me and are afraid of the cold, you can just stay home and watch the Star Ladder LAN finals via Dota TV!

Replays for past games will also be available as part of this package.

Tickets are available here.