vaylen

The NA initial sales would have been way higher if the release date was before Christmas like it was for Japan. They decided to make NA wait for their Vita, now NA is making Sony wait for their sales.

Firing 60 members of the Diablo III development team is still a big deal.

@Jennacide

Valve hasn't won anything. They applied for the name and there were immediate challenges from Guinsoo and others. Blizzard is simply the largest entity to contest Valve's ability to use the name DOTA for their product. It could easily wind up that nobody gets to use DOTA and everyone has to make their own name for their product (Which Riot has already done)

@(Unverified)

It's a multiplayer online battle arena

there's more info on www.pvp.net

I'll be able to play Arathi Basin for FREE with all my fave LoL champs?

HELL YES!!!!!!

@Amalfitano

go to www.pvp.net and see for yourself... it's free.

Riot doesn't have their "panties in a bunch" as one poster said. This was just the opinion of a couple of guys who helped make DotA great and don't want to see their old project privatized.

Food for thought: I don't think it would be cool if Blizzard had trademarked Counter Strike in 2002. They didn't have anything to do with it. It was a mod of a Valve game and Valve was really the only company that had the right to bring Counter Strike into their fold. But now it seems they aren't content to bring their own mods into their fold, they want to start annexing mods of OTHER games that they didn't have anything to do with. That's where I draw the line.

Valve, bring on your MOBA. We all want to try it. But don't try and trademark DotA. Call your MOBA something fresh that stands on its own. And for the record, I don't think Icefrog has devs worried. He was in charge of HoN and that game is nearing irrelevance.

@Ashitaka

You obviously have never played LoL. I own every character in the game and have never paid a penny for them. The only things I have spent any cash on are skins, and those are just for coolness, they aren't power. The more you play the more cool free stuff you get. And it's definitely an evolutionary step beyond DotA and HoN. Those are the past. I'm not surprised S2 is letting people play for free. Since they started charging for HoN, LoL has risen to #3 on xfire while HoN plummeted out of the top 10.

Maybe they can eventually make one that you can, you know, SEE THROUGH. Monocular vision is so FAIL.

3G/4G support? Suck on that, AT&T!