Riot Games is better known for its super-massive hit League of Legends, but it seems that it has a team working on a brand new title. Teemo’s Adventure is the rumoured name of the title, and is expected to focus on the loveable (?) fur ball that is perhaps League’s …
Read More »Riot Games is boosting League of Legends pricing, cites Brexit as the cause
Since the UK voted to leave the European Union, we have seen several companies begin to raise prices. Most notably, Blizzard boosted its Hearthstone and WoW pricing but it seems other game publishers are also starting to follow suit. This week, Riot Games announced that it would boosting the price …
Read More »Riot has banned 40 per cent of Oceanic league’s pro-players
With just eight teams in the Oceanic Challenger Series, it's hardly a packed pro-scene, but it's going to be even smaller for this year's series. Riot has banned 40 per cent of the players from the eight-team league, with many players sitting out for as long as a year for …
Read More »League of Legends has 100 million active players
It's been two years since Riot games revealed that it had 67 million people playing every month, so there was some assumption that it might have stagnated. It turns out though that it's nothing of the sort and in fact has grown by a further 50 per cent, meaning there …
Read More »LoL pro team Gambit loses player with just two games to go
Although there is no guarantee that your team will win games, or even be competitive in the hotly contested League of Legends LCS season, one thing that is required to give you a fighting chance, is everyone needs to show up. Unfortunately for Gambit Gaming, it's just lost its AD …
Read More »League of Legends to get swift ban system for abusive chat
MOBA titles are often infamous for their toxic communities, with plenty of abuse often being hurled in every direction in chat. Since things have gotten so bad, Riot has come up with a new way to police the in-game chat for League of Legends, with a new swift ban system …
Read More »MeetYourMakers fined by Riot after manager threats
Pro League of Legends team, MeetYourMakers, has been a in a bit of hot water as of late, as it was discovered just a few days ago that the team's manager had threatened its mid-laner with his mother losing her house, when the young man said he would be leaving the …
Read More »Riot admits it has learned from Pro-player contract misstep
Riot Games CEO and co-founder Brandon Beck had the chance to open the 2015 DICE Summit today, with a keynote speech which he used to demonstrate how hiring the right kind of people for your team, can make a huge difference. He explained that the e-Sports juggernaut, had made a massive mistake when …
Read More »Riot wants ISPs to help set up a dedicated LoL network
League of Legends developer, Riot Games, is currently talking to North American internet providers to help set up a dedicated network for the game in order to reduce lag and improve online performance. The network should be up and running by the end of March. In a post on the …
Read More »Riot Games to offer carrot as well as stick, to stop toxic play
Riot Games runs one of the most popular games in the world, so it makes sense that some of those players aren't going to be the nicest people. When you factor in that League of Legends is a stressful MOBA with deep mechanics that take a long time to learn …
Read More »League of Legends load times to drop by up 30 per cent
If you're one of the many people that's been enjoying the benefits of solid state drives for some time, then chances are you've come across the problem that while your gaming load times might be faster, your team mates and opponents have been holding you back. To help end the …
Read More »Less than 10 per cent of LoL tribunal cases end in pardon
League of Legends is the world's most popular game at the moment (if you disregard mobile and social titles) so it's understandable that it gets its fair share of what developer Riot Games calls, “toxic players.” To help combat these Riot has several initiatives set up, including the player moderated …
Read More »League of Legends has a pretty new cinematic
League of Legends had a CGI trailer when it launched back in the day and Riot has played with a couple of others since then, but CGI cut scenes have never featured heavily in the MOBA game. However, put that history aside today, as Riot has just unveiled a new, six …
Read More »Riot trialling immediate bans for toxic behaviour
Riot has announced a new temporary system that's being trialled on each server, that will see it banning all toxic players on League of Legends, either temporarily over a two week period, or permanently if they've been given a warning before. Part of this is to do with a new “machine …
Read More »Riot fines LoL pro player over toxic play
“Toxic” players is a term thrown around a lot in the League of Legends community, often aimed at the worst of a small group of players that make a habit of belittling others and harassing their gameplay at every turn. However sometimes that attitudes pervades the professional leagues as well …
Read More »Too many cooks spoil LoL team builder broth
Riot Games recently launched its new League of Legends Team Builder, which allowed players to pre-emptively select the position, role and character they wanted to play, thereby only matching with people that wanted to do different things and therefore securing a much more in-fighting free game experience. However, the problem …
Read More »Riot president retorts ‘greed’ accusations
Marc Merill, president of League of Legends developer Riot Games, has hit back in a Reddit post at critics that suggested he and his company are greedy in their business practices, citing many reasons why that's not the case and simply the fact that he and his main partner and …
Read More »Strapped for cash? Start playing League of Legends
I think all of us have wished we could make a living from playing games at some point, but unfortunately to do that you have to be really, really good. One league of legends player is living that dream: in an interview with Spanish newspaper ABC, Carlos “Ocelote” Rodriguez revealed just how …
Read More »Finally, League of Legends is getting a team builder
League of Legends might be the world's most popular game, but ask any regular player and they'll be able to tell you a whole host of problems with it. One of those has always been that if you're playing solo queue, as soon as the team chat loads, everyone calls …
Read More »A League of Legends card game? Sure, why not
If the popularity of the WoW Hearthstone trading card game beta is any measure of success, then I'm thinking Riot Games could do quite well with its own take on the genre, by using the plethora of heroes and abilities it has under its intellectual property banner. Unfortunately however, the …
Read More »New League of Legends champions crowned
If you haven't been keeping up with the latest season of League of Legends championship series, you may have missed that over the weekend, a new team was crowned champions, netting not only the glory of being the best team in the world for (potentially) a brief moment, but a …
Read More »Riot Games parent company now backing alternative MOBA Smite
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 …
Read More »Now you too can get a visa to play League of Legends in the US
Have you ever wanted to visit the American colonies but found yourself restricted to a short term stay? Fancy staying for as much as five years at a time? Well now you can, as long as you get good enough to be considered a professional League of Legends player, as …
Read More »These guys turned League of Legends characters into a beat ’em up
Instaburst, a small team of not-for-profit developers, has announced that it's producing a League of Legends inspired fighting game, known as League of Fighters. It's designed to pit characters from the MOBA title against one another in a 2D beat 'em up – and there's a new trailer out to …
Read More »Riot Games opens Sydney office
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 …
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