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Legends of Runeterra squashes bugs in patch 1.1, promises balance changes in patch 1.2

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With Riot's CCG Legends of Runeterra now an officially launched game, the endless dragon's tail chase begins of attacking bugs and balancing cards. The...

Riot addresses diversity, Valorant toxicity, and Vanguard anti-cheat (again)

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It's been a year and a half since a Kotaku expose blew the lid off of flagrantly sexist and abusive behavior at Riot Games,...

Fight or Kite: Valorant’s place in an MMO player’s rotation

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The new hotness from Riot Games, developer of League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, delivers twitchy, intense FPS action in Valorant. The game has...

Summer Game Fest will bring four months of game reveals and news in an all-digital extravaganza

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Geoff Keighley, better known as the guy behind awards show-cum-game announcement event The Game Awards, even better known as Dorito Pope, has gone ahead...

Legends of Runeterra officially releases with a new set and talks about randomness in CCGs

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Today is the day for Riot Games' League of Legends digital CCG to officially exit beta as Legends of Runeterra has officially released, bringing...

Bethesda donates a total of $1 million to COVID-19 relief efforts

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While Bethesda, ZeniMax Media, and its other games studios are all about making games to keep people entertained and safe at home, the company...

Valorant allows players to turn off its anti-cheat system process and makes it more visible

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Riot Games' competitive FPS Valorant drew in a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons when the devs confirmed that a background process...
Bnurgh.

The Daily Grind: Have you ever been harassed in an MMO?

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Riot's Valorant made headlines this past weekend, and not entirely for reasons Riot would've liked, when multiple Riot devs spoke up about harassment they've...

No, the Valorant influencers running all those stream giveaways aren’t being paid by Riot

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We've talked before about how Valorant has been making big numbers on Twitch spurred mostly by beta keys being dished out for watching streams,...

SuperData March 2020: Digital games spending sets achieves new highs thanks to COVID-19

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Back in in March, when SuperData was discussing February's monthly gaming revenue numbers, the analysis firm noted that COVID-19 hadn't yet had much impact...

Ship of Heroes launches an invasion event test with Riot at the Arches

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One of my favorite memories in the classic City of Heroes game was the launch of the Rikti Invasion, which saw Atlas Park get...

Riot Games defends Valorant’s Vanguard security driver, offers a $100k bounty to exploit it

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Last week, Riot Games unveiled that their in-development competitive FPS Valorant runs an anti-cheat process in the background of player systems, which caused no...
OH NO BUGS

Sandboxy-ish Minecraft-ish spinoff Hytale is acquired by Riot Games

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We know that Riot Games has been making a hard push to move beyond its status of just having one major game under its...

Riot Games outlines rules for Valorant esports competition including a ‘no blood’ toggle

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With Valorant all over the gaming news recently and in the minds of a fair few (judging by the number of people watching streams...
Sorry, can't be helped.

COVID-19: Gamescom goes digital, Star Trek Online honors medics, Raph Koster tackles pandemic denialism

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Welcome back to another roundup of how MMOs and the gaming industry are handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday we reported on the news that Germany...

Legends of Runeterra previews the Noxus region and confirms an April 30 launch date

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Riot Games' digital CCG Legends of Runeterra is about to step out of open beta and into fully-launched product, confirming its launch on PC...

Riot Games talks about the tech that keeps Valorant running smoothly and free of wallhack cheats

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Riot Games is all in on making sure Valorant is one of the better-running and protected competitive FPS titles in the industry, and they're...

Riot developer confirms Valorant has an anti-cheat process running in the background

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Many folks feel extremely strongly about multiplayer games that have anti-cheat processes that run when the game boots up, so we feel it fair...

Livestreams of Valorant’s closed beta broke a Twitch viewership record (because people wanted free keys)

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Riot Games' multiplayer FPS Valorant was in a limited closed beta this past Tuesday, and there were a whole lot of people tuning in...

Riot’s Runeterra launches April 30 while COVID-19 slows Valorant

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We were just talking on the podcast about how, with everyone stuck at home and looking for gaming outlets, that this is the perfect...

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