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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[...]

In case anyone had any question as to whether or not Riot Games would tolerate cheaters in Valorant, we have an answer The company caught a lot of people's attention with their new free-to-play 5-v-5 multiplayer first-person shooter, and have been running a beta for the game in recent weeks to test out the bugs[...]

Riot Games has a little to celebrate this week when it comes to Valorant as the game has set some new records for itself during the closed beta According to Riot Games, their first-person tactical shooter broke Twitch's single-day hours watched record in a single game category This was accomplished within the first hours of[...]

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[...]

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 time and effort getting their last game started There are many underlying reasons why[...]

Players and fans can still enjoy their online games, and while that face to face interaction might be missing, for the time being, this is still a good way to keep the community together. Credit: Riot Games The national day of mourning will include three minutes of silence Sirens and vehicle horns will also sound, in an[...]

Riot Games surprised fans this morning with the news that Valorant will be getting a closed beta, happening much sooner than we thought The beta itself will be limited to players in Europe, Canada, Russia, Turkey, and the United States The company did acknowledge there may be a bigger rollout later, but for testing purposes,[...]

Riot Games officially launched Teamfight Tactics today onto mobile devices, giving players a chance to try it for free on iOS and Android The mobile version comes with full cross-play with TFT on PC, allowing players on both platforms to compete together on multiple devices It also comes with the new "Galaxies" content, which features[...]

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[...]

Riot Games did something a little un-Riot Games of themselves by quietly revealing a gameplay trailer for Valorant over the weekend Despite the fact that the company had access to C2E2 2020 and PAX East 2020 over the weekend, both viable venues for an announcement drop, even if they weren't there, the company chose to[...]

The word came down on their official Twitter account last week, informing players of the temporary changes. Credit: Riot Games The outline of events basically says that the Spring Split will kick back off next week, followed by broadcasts resuming on March 15th Players will be required to compete in a 14-day monitored quarantine period and meet[...]

Before Riot Games implements the next content update into Teamfight Tactics sometime in mid-March, the devs have a rundown of how it will all work out When the new Galaxies update comes around, it will have three new additions in the form of Star Guardians, Cybernetic, and Mech-Pilot Each one coming with their own bonuses[...]

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[...]

Now they've partnered up with Riot Games for the 2020 LCS season in what is most assuredly one of the best deals Riot has made since the league started. Credit: Riot Games Last year, Anheuser-Busch InBev trademarked the phrase "official beer of esports", which was a sign they were going to start treating these leagues at the[...]

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[...]

During last night's broadcast of The Game Awards, we got not one, but two spinoff trailers for different League Of Legends games.

A recent Riot Games lawsuit settlement is now public, in what is one of the largest settlement cases in the state of California for gender discrimination The settlement was actually reached back in August, after the lawsuit was originally filed back in November 2018 The Los Angeles Times broke the news yesterday that the company will[...]

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[...]

Riot Games has some more legal troubles on their plate, only this time they're seeking it as they've decided to sue the esports group Riot Squad The lawsuit stems from a trademark infringement claim, with RG saying RS stole the "riot" part of the name The Chicago-based esports team was founded earlier this year, setting[...]

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[...]

Riot Games decided now was as good a time as any to bash on Blizzard as the company threw shade at them over a Teamfight Tactics announcement The company released a few details this week on various projects during their new weekly livestream, but one of the big items of the day was a mobile[...]

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[...]

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 The company released this statement, part of which we have for you below, which includes a joint statement by both sides in the lawsuit That includes the plaintiff's attorney, Ryan Saba[...]

Probably one of the worst kept secrets for 2019, Riot Games confirmed this week that they are indeed working on a new fighting game Its been rumored for months now that there was a second project in the works outside of anything having to do with League Of Legends, with a new fighting game being[...]

Riot Games has released League of Legends' latest champion Qiyana, Empress of the Elements, on the Summoner's Rift today as part of patch update 9.13 Her backstory starts in the city of Ixaocan, the capital of a new region of Runeterra called Ixtal She was the last in line to succeed her parents on the high[...]