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Riot Games’ animated series Arcane wins Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program
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...
Riot’s new League of Legends head honcho discusses updating old content and experimenting with PvE
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: Closers Online promotes from within its ranks
Two of Closers Online's roster got a major tune-up this past week. Sylvi got promoted to a Prime Agent, while Levia joined the Fatal...
Legends of Runeterra welcomes Master Yi to its world next week with Awakening
Legends of Runeterra, Riot Games' digital card game, is readying a new expansion called Awakening that is set to go live on August 31st....
The MOP Up: Survival sim Grounded tames gnats and preps for launch
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
By now, you may have caught wind of Blaugust 2022 -- the latest season of a community effort to encourage, promote, and educate new...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 384: The World of Warcraft we’ll never see
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard's financials, the canceled WoW mobile MMO, LOTRO remastered, the Riot MMO, and Legends of Aria's monetization, with adventures in RIFT, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and Fallout 76, plus a voicemail wishing for an MMO amnesia button.
Legends of Runeterra’s newest patch focuses on bug fixes but promises balance changes are coming soon
Are you angry at the meta that's looming over Legends of Runeterra? If that's the case, you're going to find no joy in the...
Project L is confirmed to be free-to-play with ‘respectful’ monetization
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...
Riot’s Greg Street explains the Riot MMO’s purported ‘low-key’ reveal
Can we pause for a second to contemplate how blissful it will be when we actually get a real title for Riot Games' MMORPG?...
The Daily Grind: Which upcoming MMORPG has the best chance of succeeding?
There are many MMOs of various designs working their way through the development process right now, but as we well know, not all of...
Vague Patch Notes: The many flavors of ‘boosting’ in the MMO genre
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...
Riot Games’s $100M discrimination lawsuit settlement is final with over 2000 women and contractors benefiting
Before the Activision-Blizzard sexual harassment and discrimination scandal blew up last year, the games industry was fixed on the 2018 Riot Games sexual harassment...
Fight or Kite: F2P MOBA Fault Elder Orb rises from the ashes of Epic Games’ Paragon
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...
The MOP Up: Astroneer’s trains chug-a-choo-choo onto the Switch
Trains in space? Hey, why not! Astroneer brought the fun of high-tech rail transport to the Nintendo Switch this past week: "Enjoy building rail...
Riot Games’ League of Legends show garners two Emmy nods
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...
Riot Games is throwing the Star Guardians at three of its titles in a 10 week-long mega event
Love it or hate it, the magical girl anime sparkliness of the Star Guardians is coming to three different titles under Riot Games' umbrella...
Valorant’s voice recording features arrive to NA on July 13 but won’t be used to fight toxicity – for now
Last May, Riot Games confirmed that Valorant would begin recording portions of in-game voice comms for the purposes of fighting back against toxic behavior....
These are the online gaming companies supporting reproductive choice and healthcare for workers
When news of the impending overturn of Roe v. Wade in the United first leaked in early May, so few games companies spoke up...
12-year-old MOBA Heroes of Newerth has officially sunsetted
After 12 years of operation, one of League of Legends' direct competitors has called it quits.
Heroes of Newerth, which launched back in 2010, closed...
