神相似!蘋果新聞應用圖標撞臉Dota2!

It's not unusual for Dota 2 fanatics like myself to perceive the game's logo in innocuous everyday objects, but when it comes to the new Apple News logo, I think even laypeople will have to agree that it bears a striking resemblance.

對於像我這樣的Dota 2發燒友來說，在日常生活中看到這款遊戲的圖標可說非比尋常。不過在見到了蘋果新聞的新圖標之後，我想即使是外行人都會覺得二者確實驚人的相似。

Both marks feature a square bisected by a diagonal line descending from left to right. Both have a pair of rough triangles filling the open corners. Both are red!

這兩個圖標的外觀都爲正方形，中間是一條由左至右的對角線，兩側空白部分各有一個三角形圖案。還有，它們都是紅色的！

Now, I'm not about to suggest that Apple copied Valve's global sensation of a video game. As I say, those of us who play Dota are stupidly passionate about it and we'd notice an infraction of this kind pretty much instantly. Much more likely is that Apple simply didn't know.

我的意思不是蘋果抄襲了維爾福軟件公司出品的遊戲的圖標。正如我所說的，像我們這樣無法自拔的Dota玩家，對如此違和的圖案是及其敏感的。蘋果公司對此可能毫不知情。

I guess 12 million active players each month, millions of Twitch viewers, and tournament prizes that overshadow pro sports aren't quite enough for Dota to register on Apple's radar. Seriously, Apple works on a scale of billions, not millions, and it's not like the company has ever shown itself particularly interested in PC gaming.

我認爲，即便Dota 2每個月有1200萬活躍玩家，Twitch上的觀衆達到數百萬之多，比賽獎金令傳統體育相形見絀，那恐怕也難入蘋果的法眼。說真的，蘋果公司的生意動輒便是數十億，而不是數百萬，並且蘋果也從未對電腦遊戲表現出特別的興趣。

The inspiration for the two logos is rather divergent. Apple's News app is going for a stylized "N" whereas the Dota 2 mark is a representation of the one and only map on which the game is played: the diagonal represents the river splitting the Dire and Radiant sections and the corner elements are the bases that each team has to defend (the "Ancients" in the original Defense of the Ancients game title).

兩個圖標的設計靈感可謂截然不同。蘋果新聞的圖標代表大寫字母“N”，而Dota 2的圖標代表遊戲地圖：中間的對角線其實是天災軍團和近衛軍團的分界河，角落裏的圖案則代表雙方各自的基地（Dota1中的字母A代表上古遺蹟）。