Interesting glitch for SOMA... grab a chair, jump on top of it while you’re holding it, and jump jump jump. You’ll lift up into the air. You can basically get anywhere, including outside of the level.

I just finished playing SOMA last night and wow I can’t stop thinking about it. Absolutely fantastic writing, perhaps the best in a video game ever made! Also, I have a real fear of the deep ocean so my experience was one of overcoming those fears which made me connect more with the character I was playing as he too…

I appreciate your interest in our MOBA coverage and many of your other comments, but I want to make it super clear that I will not tolerate people using language like “don’t talk BS unless you know your shit noob.” It’s shitty to respond to a difference of opinion by swearing and calling someone else a “noob.”

Kotaku readers help Yannick with Dota? I’m down. I love learning about other MOBAs from ya so the least we can do it teach you.

I want you to Dota with me Yannick. I want you to understand the Dotas.

DOTA 2’s first Valve-hosted major is happening in November. Valve is hoping to give pros a more reliable source of income by hosting multiple events throughout the year (instead of just The International). This one will take place in Frankfurt, Germany, with $3 million on the line. More details here.

ALSO: I want to keep covering fun, interesting, ambitious, and generally cool custom games for Dota 2 since I think they’re a great part of the game—not to mention something its competitors don’t do anywhere near as good a job at supporting. I’d also like to do a round-up of all the best ones at some point in the near…

You should include this:

I really feel like roster diversity is one of the biggest problems in LoL and was one of the reasons I totally stopped playing - (in fairness, the other being that DotA was always my home, and DotA2 finally got good enough in 2011-2012 for me to be happy with).

This works much better for Dota than LoL simply due to the fact that in Dota almost all heroes are atleast somewhat considered viable while in LoL 70% of the roster is being completely ignored.

I respectfully disagree. League of Legends might not have pay-to-win schemes which is all well and good, but I think the burdens it places on players are far too high...and the only reason it’s managed to escape any legitimate critique for its practices is it still calls itself a “free to play” game. Spending…

That’s more a problem with how the game has evolved than how it began. The game’s been out for almost 6 years now, and anyone who plays the game avidly can own all champions with only spending IP. New heros used to range between 3000 and 6000 IP, but now every new champion is 6000. More importantly, instead of the ~60…

“Not as bad as it could be” does not rectify anything.

Why do you never talk about Smite?

Is this worse then Long Pikachu? Yes, I think it is.