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Legends of Runeterra promises monthly updates, new modes, and fewer ‘trash cards’
Riot Games' shiny new digital CCG Legends of Runeterra has high hopes for itself. Executive producer Jeff Jew elaborated on a number of plans...
Kentucky high school athletic commission bans Fortnite from high school esports competition
The Kentucky High School Athletics Association (KHSAA) has officially called for the removal of Fortnite from high school esports competition, expressing concern at the...
League of Legends Chinese pro esports league suspends events over spreading coronavirus
If you've somehow missed all the news about the growing coronavirus epidemic, we'll forgive you - it's been a wild news week in the...
Riot Games’ Legends of Runeterra writes a thank-you note to its community
Awwww, Riot Games loves its Legends of Runeterra players. In a moment of warm fuzzies, the devs of the League of Legends CCG have...
Riot Games’ $10M settlement could climb to $400M due to California state agency filings
Allow us to recount events for a moment: In 2018, a Kotaku expose blew the lid off of a deeply alarming "bro culture" work...
Tencent wants to buy out the rest of Funcom as board recommends focusing on DUNE
My inbox this morning had half a dozen tips and press releases on this Funcom story, so you know we're doing it first thing:...
MMO Business Roundup: Netmarble’s new CEO, Riot Tabletop, and Epic Games Store’s 2019 numbers
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO industry news that was mildly interesting but not enough to make anyone wanna do it as a...
Riot Games’ Legends of Runeterra enters open beta on January 24
It would appear that there's enough of a fanbase for the in-development League of Legends CCG Legends of Runeterra that Riot is accelerating some...
Riot teases League of Legends’ Clash, new champions, and next Legends of Runeterra beta for 2020
"New year, new Rift" promises the start of League of Legends' latest video which showcases a number of new features and developments players of...
League of Legends’ first female championship series competitor dies at age 24
In sudden and sad esports news, League of Legends player Maria “Remilia” Creveling died this past Friday at the age of 24. Remilia was...
SuperData November 2019: Spending rises thanks to mobile, WoW holds steady
Whether any of us likes it or not, mobile gaming continues to prove to be a lucrative thing, as the November report from SuperData...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2019
When we sit back to look at the biggest headlines of the year, we don't have to look far. These are the stories that...
Riot Games opens Riot Forge to publish ‘bespoke’ League of Legends IP games
If you watched Riot Games' presentation of its upcoming titles this past fall and wondered why it wasn't branching out into every genre you...
Riot promises to balance Legends of Runeterra to make all competitive formats fair
The downright Sisyphean task of balancing competitive CCG gameplay has begun for Riot's Legends of Runeterra, but game designer Steve Rubin promises that the...
Riot Games will pay $10 million to settle its ‘bro culture’ gender discrimination lawsuit
Back in August, the LA Times reported that Riot Games had agreed to settle the class-action discrimination lawsuit lodged against it. The suit had...
SuperData October 2019: League of Legends is back on top as console and PC trend downward
SuperData's October 2019 global revenue report on the video game industry is up today, and if you were hoping the PC and console industry...
Tencent made bank in Q3 2019 thanks to mobile – not PC – games
While companies like Blizzard are seeing severe revenue drops this quarter and other MMO companies are trudging along, Tencent is having a rather up...
Riot swears its Legends of Runeterra CCG won’t be pay-to-win
It's easy to assume that Legends of Runeterra, the digital CCG from the League of Legends universe, would be just chock-full of "surprise mechanics"...
Fight or Kite: PvP games to play if you’re still boycotting Blizzard
The past couple of weeks in the land of Blizzard have made for a wild ride. Some of us have extremely strong feelings and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 243: ArcheAge goes ‘queue queue’
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge Unchained, the Daybreak EverQuest and PlanetSide 3 situation, Riot's big reveals, Fallout 76's expansion delay, plus chat on gaming routines, gamers' breaking point with studios, and the problems with RvR.
