Official Site:Â League of Legends
Studio:Â Riot Games
Launch Date:Â October 27, 2009
Genre:Â MOBA
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Mac
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Vague Patch Notes: Sort your own MMO community, guy
One of the things I note is that every so often - not all the time, but every so often - something will just...
Sea of Thieves readies a preview event, anti-cheat, and sixth anniversary
With Sea of Thieves preparing to debut on the PlayStation 5 next month and "sixth anniversary antics" in full swing, this PvP pirate sim...
The MOP Up: Lost Skies gets downright cozy inside of its ships
Lost Skies'Â February dev blog showed off some UX work, early prototypes of its weapon damage system, and some super-cozy ship interior concepts. Also, the...
Riot Games’ 2v2 tag fighter Project L is now 2XKO, plans playtests this year and launch in 2025
Riot Games would very likely appreciate it if fans would ignore the layoffs that swept over the studio just a month ago and instead...
Riot Games laid off over 500 people last night, and no we don’t know what it means for the Riot MMO
Riot Games is joining the seemingly endless list of game studios continuing to dump workers overboard: Last night, the company announced it is shedding...
The MOP Up: Valheim’s Christmas surprise
As the nights turn frosty in Valheim, a strange wintry cheer spreads through the land. Could it be... could it be a plum pudding...
Fight or Kite: SMITE has the right vibes but the wrong gameplay for this PvP fan
SMITE is one of the largest MOBAs on the planet and has been for years now. In fact, it's currently celebrating its 10th anniversary!...
League of Legends fighting game Project L will be playable during Worlds 2023 in South Korea
How hungry are you to try out Project L, the fighting game that draws from the roster of Riot Games' MOBA League of Legends?...
Greg Street announces his new MMORPG, dubbed Ghost and funded by NetEase
Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street has been talking big on Twitter about his new game studio and new MMORPG following his exit from Riot Games and...
Massively Overthinking: Are there any MMOs for which a spin-off mode would be welcome?
Pantheon's announcement that its developers are working on spinning out a monetized "247" extraction mode hasn't engendered a whole lot of hope for the...
Massively Overthinking: What’s next for Blizzard under Microsoft?
So the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard is basically a done deal. Oh, sure, the FTC is still fumbling around with hapless appeals, but look,...
The MOP Up: Aion Classic finally gets its delicious revenge
Aion Classic unleashed Update 2.4: Stormwing's Revenge on its servers this past week: "Get ready to battle Stormwing and defeat Yamennes to loot heroic...
The MOP Up: It’s the great Albion, Charlie Brown!
Albion Online is getting into the spirit of Halloween with its Harvest Challenge: "Fall has come to the world of Albion... the shadows are...
The MOP Up: EVE Online’s Fanfest has officially sold out
Well, that's it: EVE Online's Fanfest is officially sold out this year, so if you were hoping to snag a ticket at this late...
Riot Games exec says MMO is still in early phases, but the studio is ‘committed to the genre’
A conversation between a Chinese streamer and a Riot Games executive indicated that we're still in for quite the wait to see Riot's unnamed...
The MOP Up: AdventureQuest 3D players spend five billion gold… in a weekend
A recent gold boost event led to a record-breaking level of transactions in AdventureQuest 3D as players splurged on augments.
"This was a new record...
Vague Patch Notes: Contemplating the origin of the Big Five in the MMO space
A few weeks back, I talked about the various tiers of MMORPGs, and that included a discussion of what we call the Big Five...
Evercore Heroes struggles to get enough matches going in its paid closed beta
So here's a situation that everyone could see coming. You have a competitive MOBA-like title that you want to put through closed beta testing,...
Fight or Kite: MOBA Evercore Heroes makes a strong argument for competitive PvE
Believe it or not, even though I write about PvP MMOs regularly here in Fight or Kite, I don’t actually follow a bunch of...
Riot Games shares vague gameplay and design details for its in-progress Riot MMO
Riot Games has been pretty cagey about the details of its still-gestating Runeterra MMO for a while now, and that trend appears to continue...
