Report: Valve Planning Free-To-Play Title

Last week Valve announced that its Steam service would be hosting its first free-to-play games, and now there's a report that the company is preparing its own free-to-play project.

In an interview with French site Barre De Vie, Doug Lombardi, vice president of marketing for Valve, said simple, "Yes" when asked whether Valve was working on its own free-to-play project.

Lombardi could be referring to Valve's own Dota 2. While Valve certainly hasn't stated that Dota 2 would or wouldn't be free-to-play, you would have to think that the company knows that League of Legends has been successful as a F2P title. League of Legends is developed by one of the original DotA: Allstars creators, Steve "Guinsoo" Feak, at Riot Games.

Dota 2 is set to release sometime this year. For more on the game, check out our cover story.