league of legends

Official Site: League of Legends
Studio: Riot Games
Launch Date: October 27, 2009
Genre: MOBA
Business Model: F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Mac

Riot Games struggles to get out of deal with failing crypto company

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Riot Games is the latest entity that's learning the hard way that crypto isn't a fast track to wealth and success. Last year, the...

The Daily Grind: Should the MMO genre take another stab at esports?

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A few years ago, there was a concerted push in the MMO genre to design, amplify, and boost esports, and I don't just mean...

Riot’s lawsuit against League of Legends copycat is tossed, Legends of Runeterra previews 2023

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We have a pair of headlines coming out of Riot Games in this story. We'll start off with the latest on a May lawsuit...

Riot Games buys up Wargaming support studio to help with Valorant and League of Legends

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Riot Games has bought itself a shiny new studio. Or more specifically, a well-established one: Wargaming Sydney, which has been helping Wargaming out with...

League of Legends introduces its newest character K’sante and details this year’s ranked season rewards

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We're still a few weeks away from League of Legends' big esports hullabaloo, but that's not stopping the MOBA from offering up video previews...
Well, all right.

The MOP Up: Embers Adrift’s soundtrack swells prior to launch

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With less than a week to go before Embers Adrift becomes the newest launched MMORPG on the block, the studio pointed out that its...

Omega Strikers is an open beta 3v3 game of high-speed soccer from former League of Legends devs

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Are you ready for some football? Or soccer? Or a 3v3 game with some extremely colorful characters that runs at a speed that's much...

Theorycraft Games nets $50M and two former Riot devs for a ‘team-based game of adventure, creativity, and high-stakes combat’

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Back in March 2021 we reported on the formation of Theorycraft Games, a game dev studio that was made up of folks who had...

Riot Games and Lil Nas X release music video for the League of Legends Worlds 2022 anthem Star Walkin’

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The "president of League" and superstar rapper Lil Nas X has delivered on one of the promised portions of his collaboration with League of...

Riot’s new League of Legends novel may be tied into the upcoming MMORG

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Ardent League of Legends fans were treated to a brand-new novel earlier this month that is set in their game's universe -- and may...

Riot Games names Lil Nas X president of League of Legends in a new collaboration for Worlds 2022

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What do the MOBA League of Legends and superstar rapper Lil Nas X have in common? On the surface, not much, but that's not...

Four Winds: What made Lost Ark so successful where Elyon failed?

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I'm sad about it, but I have to eat my words about Elyon and its place in this decade's pantheon of MMOs. I honestly...

Riot Games’ animated series Arcane wins Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program

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It would appear that fans weren't the only ones who enjoyed Arcane, the animated series based on some of the narrative beats in League...
Ahem.

Riot’s new League of Legends head honcho discusses updating old content and experimenting with PvE

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Longtime veteran character designer Andrei Van Roon has been promoted to the head of Riot Games' League Studios, the subsection of the company that's...

The MOP Up: Survival sim Grounded tames gnats and preps for launch

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Honey-I-shrunk-the-players survival sim Grounded's last big pre-launch patch arrived recently, adding gnat pets, a cookery building, and armor and weapon upgrade revamps. Grounded is...

Global Chat: Dispatches from Blaugust 2022

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By now, you may have caught wind of Blaugust 2022 -- the latest season of a community effort to encourage, promote, and educate new...
Fight!

Project L is confirmed to be free-to-play with ‘respectful’ monetization

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Riot Games was long known for making exactly one game (League of Legends) but it's lately been diversifying into other fields. That diversification is...
Anybody wanna do a mage?

Vague Patch Notes: The many flavors of ‘boosting’ in the MMO genre

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The other day MOP's Bree and I were having a discussion about boosting. This is not entirely unusual, but it was unusual insofar as...

Fight or Kite: F2P MOBA Fault Elder Orb rises from the ashes of Epic Games’ Paragon

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Just last week a new MOBA dropped on the free-to-play scene in the form of Fault: Elder Orb. It looked a little familiar, so...

Riot Games’ League of Legends show garners two Emmy nods

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Riot Games' first foray into the television sphere wasn't just a crowd-pleasing success -- it's proven to be a critical one as well. With...

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