Riot Games Archives

Riot Games will be showing off a preview of League Of Legends: Wild Rift this week as you can check it out on Twitch tomorrow Twitch Rivals, to be specific as they won't just be giving you the average preview with some videos and screenshots and a bunch of discussions This will be a full-on[...]

Riot Games has revealed the finer details of their upcoming Valorant: First Strike event including how to qualify and the prize pool First off, we now know the prize pool will be $100k, so a decent chunk of cash is on the line for this one The competition will begin on October 26th with the[...]

Riot Games revealed new details today about the regional open beta coming to League Of Legends: Wild Rift, happening on October 27th The regional test will be taking place in Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand The company will be planning more regions to follow in 2020 and early 2021 The[...]

Riot Games revealed the full content release happening this week for K/DA as the K-Pop group returns to League Of Legends We got the details below from Rio as they are also making their return to Teamfight Tactics and Legends of Runeterra with a ton of content If you couldn't tell from the hype today,[...]

Riot Games revealed a whole new look this morning for the League of Legends pop band K/DA, along with their new EP cover The virtual K-Pop girl group based on characters within the game took a lot of the gaming, dance, and cosplay worlds by storm back in 2018 To the point where we're fairly[...]

Riot Games revealed this past week they will be launching their own official esports competition for Valorant called First Strike First Strike will be a global set of tournaments taking place across North America, Europe, CIS, Turkey, Asia, Oceania, Brazil, and the Middle East Each region will be holding merit-based qualifiers culminating with multiple Riot-produced[...]

Riot Games has officially released a brand new expansion for Legends Of Runeterra, as players can experience the Call Of The Mountain The latest addition to the League Of Legends free-to-play card game adds a new region of Targon for you to explore, along with 89 collectible cards which include 7 champions and as a[...]

You can check out their latest track, "THE BADDEST", down at the bottom as we wait for more details on the upcoming EP release. A look at the promo art for THE BADDEST, courtesy of Riot Games. Later this year, K/DA will also release their debut EP, which includes "THE BADDEST", as well as all new tracks[...]

Secretlab dropped a fun surprise today as they revealed a new partnership with Riot Games to make a line of League Of Legends gaming chairs As you can see here, there will be four specific designs to appeal to a lot of LoL players There will be the Akali Edition, the Ahri Edition, the Yasuo[...]

A follow-up, Jinx: Little Miss Steps, was released in June 2013, continuing to chronicle the adventures of Jinx and her friends in high school. Riot Games Oppses Archie Comics Over Jinx Trademark But in 2018, Archie Comics applied to register a trademark for the word "Jinx" covering use in pretty much every possible medium We also noted that[...]

Its time for Valortant to move onto the next chapter as Riot Games has officially launched Act II into the game this week Along with the brand new agent in Killjoy being introduced last week, this act will be bringing a new Battlepass full of exclusive unlockables for everyone to obtain, a new skinline the[...]

Riot Games revealed today that the next new agent to come to Valorant will be a German genius tinkerer known as Killjoy This is more of a lockdown character as you'll be using her to take over key areas of the map ahead of time and make sure anyone that enters them pays a hefty[...]

Some cool news for Valorant players as Riot Games has partnered up with the PAX Arena to host a $250k invitational tournament The event is being called the PAX Arena Valorant Invitational Powered By Seagate, and it will run from July 22nd-26th as part of Riot's first Ignition Series of tournaments The event will bring[...]

We have a few quotes from those involved below, and you can read more about it and register here. The Valorant Showdown kicks off on June 20th, courtesy of Nerd Street Games. "We're thrilled to partner with Nerd Street Gamers to bring Riot's first Valorant Ignition Series event to North America," said Joe Marsh, CEO of T1. [...]

Last week, a Riot Games executive officially resigned from the company after being placed on leave over comments he made about George Floyd If you're not familiar with the story, last week the now-former Global Head of Consumer Products, Ron Johnson, posted a now-deleted Facebook post about Floyd and the media's coverage of his death[...]

Riot Games has placed one of their staff on leave after coming under fire from a post they made online about George Floyd The story originated from Vice who picked up a now-deleted Facebook post from Ron Johnson, who if you're not familiar with him, is the Global Head of Consumer Products at Riot Games[...]

This morning, Riot Games announced they had formed a new partnership with the digital mental health service the Crisis Text Line Through this new partnership, players can text the word RIOT to 741741 to be connected with a trained Crisis Counselor The partnership comes after Riot polled their own playerbase and found that "good health[...]

Some good news for console players as Riot Games is apparently in the process of testing Valorant for release on console The news comes from GameSpot who posted snippets of an interview with Anna Donlon, the game's Executive Producer, about their plans to get the game onto the PS4, Switch, and Xbox One It seems testing[...]

This morning, Riot Games officially launched Valorant for everyone to play for free, along with a brand new trailer for the game The much talked about 5v5 first-person tactical shooter has been all the rage on Twitch the last couple months as players have been beta testing the game with audiences watching it in droves[...]

As Riot Games prepares to release Valorant onto the public, the devs have revealed a brand new map on the way The map is being called Ascent, and as you can see has a lot more complexity to it than the one players have been using in the testing phase Just looking at the map[...]

This morning, Riot Games announced updated figures from the recently ended closed beta period for Valorant According to their info, over the course of the game's two-month beta period, an average of nearly three million players logged on daily Those who couldn't play watched on several social gaming platforms, watching a total of more than[...]

Riot Games dropped a nice little bombshell on everyone today as they revealed that Valorant will be released on June 2nd, 2020 The news came down this morning on Twitter as Executive Producer Anna Donlon and Game Director Joe Zeigler started talking to fans in a video shot from their respective homes In what started[...]

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 Aeneia, who is part of the Insights & Strategy team at Riot Games, specifically for Valorant, chimed in with her own experiences Which included a guy proposing to her. All my life, I've had guys comment about me being a girl "" in online gaming (For those who haven't heard me, I have a pretty[...]

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[...]

The announcement was made on ESPN Esports' Twitter account, in what's being called "the most ambitious crossover in esports history." Considering the game is still in open beta and Riot Games hasn't set up any kind of esports system for the game, you may be wondering how this is already happening The parties involved will[...]

If you can find a way to hack into Valorant or find any kind of exploit in the game, the folks at Riot Games are willing to pay a bounty The company has already been testing a lot of things out with its current open beta, most notably the anti-cheating system Which we hilariously got[...]

This morning Riot Games announced their latest acquisition — Hypixel Studios Hypixel is currently developing Hytale, a block game that features the depth of a role-playing game and the scope of a sandbox game The beta for Hytale already boasts 2.5 million signups, alongside 55+ million views on the Hytale trailer The game should be[...]

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[...]