Warcraft 3 Auto Chess, as the version of the game has been dubbed, is reportedly a mod of a mod, ... As Dota grew into Dota 2, Valve was happy to allow for fan-made custom games, ...

Creating DotA also required a lot of under-the-hood development and new assets, but Morton says the goal is for mods to work in the same way in Warcraft III: Reforged.

After all, Blizzard created Warcraft 3 and then Valve’s Dota 2 and Riot’s League of Legends went on to become huge successes based on the Warcraft 3 custom game.

A modder managed to bring the old Warcraft 3 eul map into Dota 2's Source engine. Dota modder Arsjac has ported eul 3.76d, one of the very early Dota maps in Warcraft 3, into Dota 2.

It was through Warcraft 3’s custom games that the idea for what would become Dota 2 and League of Legends was born, after all. But any kind of big revival of that scene looks pretty unlikely.

Warcraft III’s editor was revolutionary. ... Building off DOTA’s gameplay, League of Legends and Dota 2 would go on to become some of the most popular games in the world.

It’s been about two weeks now since Dota 2’s workshop tools expanded to allow custom game creation. While the tools are still in alpha, fans are already hard at work tinkering with the game that ...

After a 2012 lawsuit, Valve even got to keep the “Dota” name that originally took root in Warcraft 3. With Warcraft 3: Reforged, it seems that Blizzard is not keen on allowing history to ...

Going by the results of the recent poll about EMS VII, both games failed to grab ESL's attention, with DotA missing the chance to be revived and WarCraft 3 not winning the extra 1,000€ prize money. A ...