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The MOP Up: COVID-19’s digital silver lining
While the COVID-19 epidemic has been nine types of awful over the last half-year, video game studios and publishers aren't complaining quite as loud...
Blizzard and Bethsoft donate for racial justice, Riot parts ways with troubling exec, and Raph Koster writes a song
We've got a few more gaming-related Black Lives Matter stories to share this morning.
Riot Games: First up, yesterday we reported that Riot Games was...
Riot Games places exec on leave while investigating awful social media post
Nobody's surprised to learn that the corporate culture at the tippy-top of Riot Games still has "bad apples," right? After the huge sexual harassment...
Valorant is being prototyped for console releases as well
At long last, Valorant is officially released so you can play the game. But that's not enough; everyone knows that the real release is when you...
Gaming events and patches are delayed, games taken offline to support Black Lives Matter protests
The PC Gaming Show that was scheduled for Saturday has been postponed a week, PC Gamer announced last night. It'll run June 13th instead,...
Valorant officially launches with new map, new agent, and a beta of the new Spike Rush mode
Today is the day for another team-based multiplayer FPS to arrive on the scene. This time it's Riot Games' turn on the sub-genre with...
Massively Uplifting: Charity tourneys, Asheron’s Call in Animal Crossing, and over a million Kind Words
May day! May day! We have warm fuzzies incoming! And just in time to start June off with happier thoughts. And who couldn't use...
Valorant unveils a new character ahead of its launch on June 2
While Riot Games' online team shooter Valorant still isn't quite out the door just yet, it apparently still has a few new things to...
League of Legends esports matches will now have ads on the battlefield
At long last, Riot Games is going to bring the most desired part of professional sports to the esports events of League of Legends...
SuperData April 2020: Games spending shatters more records thanks to the pandemic
This will probably come off as "water is wet" news, but for those who like to keep a finger on the pulse of these...
Valorant officially launches on June 2 with a season pass and a new game mode (that’s not deathmatch)
It looks like Riot Games is ready to call beta testing for Valorant just about done. During a Summer Game Fest livestream, the studio...
Valorant has so far found and banned over 8,000 cheaters, causing sweet cheater tears to flow
As contentious as Valorant's Vanguard anti-cheat process has been, it appears to be yielding some results. According to a tweet from anti-cheat pipeline designer...
Legends of Runeterra squashes bugs in patch 1.1, promises balance changes in patch 1.2
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)
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
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
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
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
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
Riot Games' competitive FPS Valorant drew in a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons when the devs confirmed that a background process...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been harassed in an MMO?
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...
