Our latest coverage of League of Legends.
It's been a good week for George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis, founder of Counter Logic Gaming (CLG) as Madison Square Garden purchased a controlling stake in his eSports team. The Madison Square Garden Company will be adding Counter Logic Gaming to its already impressive portfolio of professional sports teams including the New York Knicks (NBA), New York Rangers (NHL), and New York [...]
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Back in 2003 a group of modders decided to create a custom game mode for Warcraft III called DotA. The mod was a huge hit and pretty soon a number of DotA clones, such as League of Legends by Riot Games and Heroes of Newerth by S2 Games, emerged from the woodworks and MOBAs became the next big thing in [...]
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Update 2022: The federal court in California dismissed Riot's claims about this lawsuit ultimately ruling that the case should be heard in China, not the United States. Riot has little chance of winning in China as they chose to sue in the U.S. knowing they had a better shot here. Tencent, Riot's owner, filed a lawsuit in China against Moonton's [...]
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Big changes are coming to League of Legends eSports in 2018. Riot Games announced permanent LCS membership, revenue sharing between Riot and the teams, and better protections for pro players through a player association. The purpose of these changes is to encourage teams to invest for the long health of the scene. The biggest change seems to be the permanent [...]
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League of Legends has entered the void with its Dark Star update, adding thematically appropriate skins for Orianna and Kha’zix, along with a new—temporary—3v3 game mode. As the Dark Star consumes, new Corruptants are born. Whether elegant or savage, these twisted forms emerge from the Singularity, eager to feed more to the inky, inescapable abyss. Dark Star: Singularity takes place [...]
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One's school years can be tough. Especially in a country like South Korea where students are expected to study all day and attend cram courses after regular school hours. Video games were supposed to be an escape from all that real-world grind, but leave it to the Koreans to turn even PC gaming into a chore. As the Chinese edition [...]
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In light of having recently discussed the eventual inclusion of LGBT characters in League's roster, League of Legends design director Greg Street once again speaks out on the representation of politics and diversity in games. In response to a gamer's concerns that "Liberal politics is forcing its way into games", Street shares his personal thoughts on the matter in a [...]
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Tencent announced their Q4 2016 earnings yesterday and one interesting tidbit of news that came out of it (besides the fact that they're minting money) is that their mobile MOBA King of Glory which is basically League of Legends Mobile has surpassed 50 million daily active users. To put that number into context League of Legends gets about 100M monthly [...]
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In a recent interview at GDC 2017, League of Legends's design director Greg Street sat down with Polygon to discuss the eventual inclusion of LGBT characters amongst the game's roster. Citing Overwatch's overwhelmingly positive reception for Tracer's trailblazing reveal, Street is eager to follow suit and make an impact. “We owe it to the players and, I think, to the [...]
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Earlier today the official League of Legends twitter account shared an overhauled design for the ghoulish gargoyle Galio. Far from being demonic, Galio now looks like he just left his perch on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead: coated in silver and gold with a crown to match. The trailer is complete with a slow-clapping rock ballad to hype up the audience. Galio's overhaul [...]
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