Dota 2 is getting a Cave Johnson announcer pack. Johnson is the deranged founding father of Aperture Science from Portal and voiced by the Oscar-winning JK Simmons. Simmons would not function a lot within the six-minute advert for the pack produced by Valve, however Gabe Newell does. You can watch it under.

Quite a lot of Valve’s current advertising and marketing appears to be following a single directorial observe – “louder” – however this bought a few laughs from me, and it is Gabe who, principally with out saying something, steals the present.

The Cave Johnson Announcer Pack will launch on November third as a part of Battle Pass: Part 2. The battle go, as all the time, is a reward monitor you should buy into after which progress alongside by way of play or purchases. You can discover particulars on half one of many battle go, and different parts arriving partly two, on the Battle Pass 2022 microsite.

If you have not performed Dota 2 – or any MOBA, actually – then you need to know that the announcer is a giant a part of it, calling out not simply kill sprees however very important details about the state of the sport. Cosmetic announcer packs exchange all announcer voice traces, of which there are many, and have beforehand featured different Portal characters, in addition to characters from different Valve video games or indie hits like The Stanley Parable.

It’s mainly a uncommon alternative to listen to a extremely adorned charactor actor learn a comical (or not) spin on traces like, “Our high barracks are underneath assault.” Or to me, a non-Dota 2 participant, it is this amusing YouTube video and nothing else.