When Valve announced that they had copyrighted the term DotA, Blizzard was befuddled by it as the Custom Campaign game originated on their property (Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne). Everyone's only guess was that they were working on a "DotA" game as well. Sure enough, Blizzard announced "Blizzard DotA" sometime after. Months later, a trailer is finally shown (earlier today at BlizzCon 2011).
Source: Youtube Channel starcraft
So what I hear is that it's a MOBA-based game, much like the original DotA, with a cast of heroes (and villains) from the universe of Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo. The characters are categorized in the usual terms: A tank to take damage, DPS (Damage Per Second) to deal the most damage, Support to keep the team in the front lines, and a siege is possibly a pusher (the one to move a team's minions into the enemy base). It is being built on Blizzard's Starcraft 2 Campaign Editor and will be free to play (granted that you have bought Starcraft 2 already) as a custom campaign on Starcraft 2's servers. This seems like a really fun custom campaign to play, and it's a reminder that the whole purpose to buying Starcraft 2 for me was to utilize the Campaign Editor to improve as a game designer...
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