League of Legends Archives

This week, Red Bull announced they'll be hosting a new esports event as they partner with Riot Games for the Solo Q League Of Legends Tournament As you might suspect from the name, this will be a solo tournament where all of the games will be 1-v-1 The tournament will be taking place across the[...]

League Of Legends and Secretlab announced the gaming chair company has partnered up to be the official chair of the LEC and the European Masters Like a lot of partnerships in this style, this means you're going to see Secretlab chairs in the background being used by the players as they compete this summer in[...]

The month-long League of Legends tournament was exciting for both players and viewers, who all got to enjoy the daily 1v1 tournaments from the comfort of their own homes From April 27 to May 24th, we saw thousands of players test their skills for a chance to win some pretty great prizes — including the[...]

Riot Games announced today that the League Of Legends European Championship (LEC) Summer Season will kick off on Friday, June 13th This exciting announcement will feature two super weeks — Week 1 and Week 8, where games will be played from Friday through Sunday The LEC will also have two one-week breaks after the first[...]

Riot Games and Red Bull came together to announce they are launching a new League Of Legends esports gaming series The Red Bull Power Spike will kick off next week, in partnership with tournament platform Battlefy All members of the official League of Legends Discord channel in the United States can participate in daily 1-v-1 tournaments,[...]

Big news from Riot Games this week as the company has officially canceled the League of Legends Esports MSI 2020 The company made the announcement yesterday in a blog post, citing the continuing health concerns currently happening around the world as the reason for the cancelation But also saying the company would be looking into[...]

DreamHack announced they will be launching the new Northern League Of Legends Championship (NLC) along with Riot Games The league will operate out of Europe, supported by a new competitive ecosystem in Telia Esports Series TES is expanding from Finland to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, which features national leagues and DreamHack-operated UKLC in the UK[...]

This month-long tournament series is being held in the continental United States and features competitive matches in League of Legends, Rocket League, and Teamfight Tactics The prize pool is $30k, and players are also eligible for tangible prizes such as the ASUS Republic of Gamers and TUF Gaming laptops, hardware, merchandise, Generation Esports jerseys and[...]

If you're looking to watch the League of Legends' 2020 Championship Series in the United States, you're in luck ESPN will be broadcasting the event stateside Announced earlier today, five matches from the LCS will air on ESPN2 ESPN2 is already home to esports coverage, so the LCS will fit right in here "We're excited[...]

Starting in 2021, Riot Games Korea will move the League of Legends Champions Korea to a franchising system This follows in the footsteps of the LCS, LPL, and LEC According to Riot, this is being done in an effort to get players, fans, and teams to forge long-lasting relationships This Long-term partnership hopes to create[...]

Looks like some changes are coming to the matchmaking part of League of Legends Riot Games' lead gameplay designer Mark Yetter posted about the changes in today's Dev Post. Champ select dodges are something that hurts the overall player experience by putting 9 players back into a longer queue after they've already spent a lot of[...]

The League of Legends Pro League is pushing back it's April 4th start date to April 20th The later start date is so players can join China in a national day of mourning for those lost to COVID-19 The LPL has also asked fans to keep practicing social distancing and other safety measures, to prevent[...]

Riot Games has made the decision to make more changes to the League Of Legends Championship Series after new coronavirus updates The company sent out the update we have for you below, letting fans know the rest of the season is officially suspended On top of that, the 2020 LCS Spring Finals will be moved[...]

League Of Legends will be relaunching their pro circuit in China on March 9th, but it comes with a slight change due to the coronavirus Rather than having to wait to see what the status is of the outbreak is in a few weeks, the LPL will resume competition with an online-only format for the[...]

This week, Shamrock Farms announced they had a new partnership deal with League Of Legends player Joedat "Voyboy" Esfahani to promote Rockin Protein Not a lot of info has come out about the deal and what it entails, nor do we know for how long he'll have the gig But we do know he's been[...]

During the League Of Legends Spring Split this weekend, Riot Games had a special announcement as they revealed the LCS Spring Finals 2020 would be in Texas The event will take place from April 18th-19th at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, with ticket info coming out on February 14th and sold on[...]

Bud Light joins up with another esports league as their official beer, as the League Of Legends Championship Series takes on its latest sponsor The beer brand has slowly been getting more involved with esports recently after seeing several games take off Last year they worked with both the Overwatch League and the NBA 2K[...]

Riot Games, developer of the popular MMO League of Legends, is working to elaborate on producing within the tabletop board game world. Source: Riot Games Harping on the popularity of their first board game, Mechs vs Minions, Riot Games is developing a second tabletop game, called Tellstones: King's Gambit. Mechs vs Minions was released in 2016, at a $75 price[...]

Neowiz and Riot Games have teamed up to add the League Of Legends' pop band K/DA's songs to the DJMAX Respect V library for you to play Both songs, "POP/STARS and "Get Jinxed", have been added to the playlists as you can jam out to the music videos as you attempt to complete the songs[...]

Riot Games let players and fans of League Of Legends know that the 10th season will kick off this week, starting on January 10th The company made the announcement on Twitter earlier today, showing off a couple pieces of art, including the one you see here The past month of the game has seen the[...]

An interesting development in League Of Legends as Riot Games has banned Galatasaray Esports from an upcoming event The news comes from Dot Esports, who is reporting the Turkish team failed to pay out their staff after the 2019 Summer Split took place earlier this year As a result, Riot Games banned the team from[...]

Maria "Remilia" Creveling, the first woman to play League Of Legends in the LCS, has passed away this week at the age of 24. Credit: Riot Games The word came down this morning from her friend and roommate, esports journalist Richard Lewis, who announced on Twitter that she had passed away overnight in her sleep. She would not[...]

During last night's broadcast of The Game Awards, we got not one, but two spinoff trailers for different League Of Legends games Both of them coming from Riot Forge, as Airship Syndicate is developing Ruined King: A League of Legends Story, while Double Stallion is developing CONV/RGENCE: A League of Legends Story You can check[...]

Riot Games revealed this week that they have a new champion on the way to League Of Legends, this time being the Weapon Of The Faithful, Aphelios The news came out after the company launched a new character page with some additional lore about the character, timed perfectly after the ninth season came to a[...]

This morning, Riot Games and iam8bit announced they would be releasing a special 10th-anniversary vinyl soundtrack for League Of Legends The collector's 2xLP vinyl set is available for purchase on their website for $40, and they are shipping immediately Here's a few details about what is going to end up being a must-own item for[...]

Credit: Riot Games Riot Games just announced League of Legends: Wild Rift, a 5v5 multiplayer online battle arena game for mobile and consoles. The game, which isn't due out until 2020 for iOS, Android, and additional platforms, is said to bring the "fast-paced player-versus-player action-strategy of the League of Legends PC game" to players This time, however,[...]

Credit: Riot Games League of Legends developer Riot Games is hard at work on a new character-based tactical shooter. The new game, dubbed Project A, is set to be a competitive shooter set on Earth, not too far in the future, with a cast of characters imbued with their own unique abilities. "Just like League, we're in this[...]

This week, TSM announced that Søren“Bjergsen” Bjerg had signed a new contract with them for the LCS team, and also became a part owner of the organization.

A new wrinkle in the esports controversy involving Hearthstone banning a player over political comments, only this time involving Riot Games and League Of Legends After seeing the actions and the fallout from Blizzard's decision this week, Riot has decided to try and jump ahead of any potential controversy And they did it in one[...]

Riot Games announced last week that they have reached a settlement with the parties who brought a class-action lawsuit against them for gender discrimination.