Tag Archives: LoL

The past few days have seen some big changes that are set to be implemented by Riot in the pre-season for League of Legends' Season 4. First we heard about Vision and ward tweaks and then about big shake ups for support players and the overall meta. Today Riot is …

Following on from its recent post about changes to vision items and map control in League of Legends season 4 and its preseason, Riot has posted up another break down of changes it's going to be making to the game, this time affecting supports and the items they usually take, …

With the League of Legends Season 3 now done and dusted, it's time to look forward to the next season, where as usual, Riot is planning big changes to vast swathes of the game in order to improve balance, competitiveness and up the ante on potential strategies. It's going to …

Self described “Leading publisher in the world,” Tencent, has announced its financial backing of Smite, a MOBA with a different take on the genre, combining fixed viewpoints with a third person perspective. This might not sound like the smartest move, considering how saturated the MOBA market is becoming, but it …

Riot games has admitted via its official site that unfortunately, a portion of its North American user base, has had their account details exposed in what we can presume was some sort of hack. However, Riot never explicitly states this, saying that instead data was “compromised,” so either it's avoiding …

Yesterday, we heard from one professional League of Legends player, about how he felt that managers were one of the biggest problems with Esports teams, especially his old one, MRN, which had been plagued by a manager that was unscrupulous with his money. That manager, Phan has now expressed his …

Yesterday saw DFC Intelligence, a video game statistics and research firm, release a list of figures showing DotA 2 as the most played “core” pc game. Riot Games disagrees however and has cited publicly available statistics to back up the fact that League of Legends, not DotA 2, is the …

League of Legends is a big deal these days, with Esports, plushies, clothing and of course, the game itself, but there's always room for one more product. With that in mind, Addam, a username with no other designation, has created 3D renderings of League of Legends characters, in lego. He's …

With the most popular game in the world right now, it's not surprising that Riot is forced to deal with some irritatingly “toxic” players from time to time. However today's crack down is on an entire team for ELO boosting and one for seeming to DDOS an opposing player mid-game. The near …

Maker and runner of League of Legends, Riot Games, has announced that it has opened a new office in Sydney, Australia and is already looking for new blood to staff it. Do you have what it takes? The two new positions available – who will presumably be joining others, it …

If you're taking a trip to China in the near future and you happen to be a big fan of Riot Game's MOBA League of Legends, there's one particular place you might want to make sure you visit: The League of Legends restaurant in Chongqing. What makes it so? Well …

Sports around the world, whether they be based in the real world or online, have trash talking as part of their culture. It's an accepted practice and is annoying when you're on the receiving end, but we don't expect people to be 100 per cent gentlemanly 100 per cent of …

S2 Games has announced that its MOBA title, Heroes of Newerth, has been hacked and the passwords of user's accounts have been breached. To counter it the developer has reset everyone's passwords and is recommending that any players change any login information elsewhere that shares details with HoN. Showing a …

League of Legends has been making a lot of journalistic waves in the past few days, with the biggest focus on the removal and crack down on trolls. However the big rumour today is that the world's most popular game could be coming to Steam. The hints come from entries …

While gaming has had a persistent culture of trash talking for the past decade or so, one genre has perpetuated this more than most: MOBA. DotA, League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth, they've built a reputation as having an unforgiving player base. Riot Games, the developer of LoL, has made …