Who owns the term “DOTA?”  In gaming, the acronym is often used to refer to the Warcraft III mod titled Defense of the Ancients from a Starcraft map titled Aeon of Strife.  Yet that map and mod were actually made by a non-Blizzard employee, a fan of the game using the name...

The Steam website and forums were hacked earlier this week, Valve corporate officials admitted today.  The hack was severe, giving hackers full access to the website’s database, which includes a lot of sensitive user information. Valve says that so far, no known breaches of...