Notch is actually an asshole.

You are right about your first impression of him with that asking for first class tickets.

He made his game from an idea he got from Infiniminer. Look it up. He did not make anything original.

The only test of how good a developer he is, is to look at this card game he's making and seeing…

First of all Eul was the original creator of Defense of the Ancients. IceFrog was the last and latest developer for Dota.

The way you describe Dota 2 shows what little you know about it. It is League that has a lot of farming and grinding. Dota 2 is about teamwork and dramatic turn arounds. You can turn the tide…

Because Dota 2 is more of the Defense of the Ancients' player's game than it is Valve's game.

The community needed a new home more than Valve needed a new game. Everything from the original creator of Dota (Eul) to its current and most valuable developer (IceFrog) is on board.

Valve has always been a new home for…

I guess people here don't realize that there is one feature I find most useful for my personal convenience:

I can now run my graphics-heavy desktop PC games on my old, underpowered but lightweight laptop from the convenience of my bed, my bathroom and my porch. :D

What makes you think that your opinion is better than anyone else's just because you think you know the future? The fact that you say that PC is dying proves that you don't base things on historical evidence. PC has been dying for decades and is still here. Meanwhile, Nintendo has lost their throne and Microsoft…

You didn't point out anything obvious. Whatever DRM you didn't like about the PC, the consoles do it worse simply by setting up the software to be as obsolete as the hardware it runs in. The manner you think consoles are better overall echoes that of a console user's opinions. The fact that you haven't bought a…

"PC gaming is dead, it's not coming back."

Wow. Spoken like a true console gamer. If you think that the only innovation that's coming to PCs are just better framerates, then yeah I guess you're better off with a console because for now, 60 frames per second in those things are considered impressive.

Specs don't…

It's too bad the PC isn't loved the same way as it takes many shapes, forms and brands so there is no one thing for consumerists to focus on. Despite having the PC give more value to the tech geek, the gamer and the dudebro, it's just not marketed by any individual or company as relevant in pop culture.

I dream of a…

I am just sad how this Kojima guy always finds a way to murder the English language.

It's like they weren't satisfied with the earlier game Metal Gear Revengineeringcomeuppance. Now they come up with another silly title in Metal Gear Groundzerosessespluralz.

I wonder if he'll be trying his movie director thing with…

Not as extreme as the guy who bought a Dota 2 item for 38,000 dollars.

Not all men go for cows.

The Summoner's Guidebook: Is League of Legends' grind too much for a competitive game?

Just for reference, this is what a map from League of Legends and one from Dota 2 look like.
The reason Riot calls their game Moba Chumba Wumba is because they hate it when people call their game a Dota clone.

Why the hate between Dota and LoL

Ranking in Dota 2 is invisible. The rank is not displayed even to the user because it has nothing to contribute to the enjoyment of the system they have created.

There are no artificial/simulated progressions in Dota 2. It's just pure skill. No runes, no titles, no unlocks. You can start with a brand new account…

Dota 2

That goodness it wasn't that Snake ripoff made by Kojima.

If it was Kojima, it would have been a full graphic novel about the political and social implications of suffocation and then the guy would have this dragging sequence of dying that would go on for half the book.

And Kotaku readers would probably have loved it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/wiki/f…

Welcome to r/dota2. Welcome to Dota.

It will be a painful birth but there is nothing like a pure game where you can experience the exhilaration of beating your opponent through sheer skill. Even on a losing match. The battles are simply dramatic.

If you don't believe me, watch the…

Mr. Totilo, your article lacks a similar more intelligent argument against motion control versus more tactile methods of interacting with the computer.

"Maybe the motion stuff is just failure of imagination on our part, but we’re a lot more excited about biometrics as an input method. Motion just seems to be a way of…

Your mistake is to think that Microsoft ever thought anything made sense. They don't think that way.