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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MMO Business Roundup: China’s gaming crackdown, NetEase Connect, Wild Rift plagiarism, and Valve’s anti-trust lawsuit
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business and industry news.
China: The Chinese government is continuing to widen its long-running crackdown on...
Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street says the Riot MMO will likely be his ‘last major franchise’
Riot Games' not-so-secret MMORPG is "likely" to be the last big game project that Executive Producer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street will work on in his...
Prime Gaming teams up with Blizzard to offer freebies for Overwatch, Hearthstone, WoW, and StarCraft
Amazon Prime members are likely already very familiar with all of the free stuff they can claim for a wide variety of games, but...
Riot Games promotes Marc Merrill to president of games
If you could go back to visit younger me and tell my naive face that it was actually possible to be promoted to become...
Not So Massively: Hearthstone’s Lunar New Year, Apex Legend’s Defiance, LoL’s Renata
Welcome back to a quick roundup of news and events in the Not-So-Massively multiplayer realm!
Hearthstone - Lunar New Year begins in Blizzard's OTCG as...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 357: Microsoft swallows Blizzard whole
Justin and Bree discuss the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout, the EverQuest franchise roadmaps, Nightingale's ex-MMO status, Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons, and the Riot MMO, with adventures in LOTRO and Elder Scrolls Online, plus mailbag topics on Blizzard and games made for streaming.
MMO Business Roundup: Unionbusting, Kakao, sportswashing, DDOS attacks, plagiarism, and PUBG
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent industry news. I'm sorry.
Raven Software: The internal Activision studio that saw first a strike and...
Riot Games adds multi-factor auth, a new champion to League of Legends, muted words feature to Valorant
Riot Games is all up in our news business this week, with several headlines coming out of the studio for its multiplayer games. Here's...
Riot Games will settle sexual discrimination lawsuit for $100M and then some
We’ve been poking at the dumpster fire inside League of Legends company Riot Games ever since 2018, when Kotaku’s expose of workplace conditions was...
Riot’s Runeterra MMO exec confirms the game will have PvP of some sort
Being a Riot Games-built MMORPG set in the world of League of Legends, it's natural that fans of the IP will want to know...
The MOP Up: Halo Infinite throws out an update while grappling with rampant cheating
After surprising fans by debuting this month, Halo Infinite's multiplayer mode got an update this past week that introduced a small battle pass, cosmetics,...
Riot Games confirms season two of Arcane is in production, offers an update on Runeterra fighting game Project L
Over the past weekend, Riot Games' highly lauded League of Legends animated series Arcane debuted its final three episodes of the first season, which...
SMITE, PUBG Mobile, and Fortnite kick off ridiculous and fun transmedia synergy events
We live in a video gaming world where SMITE characters wear Transformers as skins, Naruto ninjas decided to battle it out in Fortnite, and...
Riot Games celebrates Arcane series success with in-game goodies, premieres, and tournaments
Is it really a crossover if you're crossing over with yourself? Riot Games is not going to think too hard on that question as...
Riot Games teases Legends of Runeterra’s Path of Champions and new LoL spinoff Hextech Mayhem
Riot Games is continuing its cavalcade of announcements and reveals this week. First, the company's Riot Forge division revealed another League of Legends spinoff,...
League of Legends’ animated series Arcane rakes in rave reviews across the internet
It would appear that Netflix has another hit on its hands with the premiere of the League of Legends animated series Arcane, which made...
Riot Games is partnering with Rihanna’s makeup brand Fenty to promote Arcane
File this one in the bin where I put all the weird cross-promos for a snarky end-of-the-year post: Riot Games is collaborating with Fenty...
Riot plops League of Legends, Runeterra, and Valorant on the Epic Games Store as LoL’s Jinx comes to Fortnite
With its closest rival staggered after a poor quarterly showing and a brutal stock drop, Riot Games is leaping into the vacuum with a...
Legends of Runeterra promises regularly occurring card updates as it celebrates 180M monthly players
Riot Games' CCG Legends of Runeterra appears to be going over pretty well. We can leap to that conclusion with the help of a...
Lawful Neutral: Managing toxicity in the MMO industry
When I'm playing games, I make a lot of use of the reporting function. If I see a moonkin zerg farming a spot in...
