DOTA 2 keeps its name, Blizzard DOTA rebranded

Blizzard and Valve have agreed to share the trademark for DOTA, according to an announcement from both companies. Under the terms of the agreement, Valve's DOTA 2 will keep its name, while Blizzard DOTA has been renamed Blizzard All-Stars. Blizzard can continue the non-commercial use of the DOTA name in the Battle.net community for player-created maps for Warcraft III and Starcraft II.

"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."

"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 Valve president Gabe Newell. "We both want to focus on the things our fans care about, creating and shipping great games for our communities."