League of Legends Articles
Hear from FoxDrop, visit Korean PC bangs, and watch friendship unfold in Brazil during the premiere episode of a new Live/Play documentary miniseries.
Social systems designer Jeffrey Lin, most recently in charge of reducing the 'vitriol' in League of Legends, has departed Riot Games. In a post on TwitLonger.com, Lin thanks his friend Ghostcrawler and admitted that a passionate community makes the game better.
The League of Legends site has been updated with a new lore piece that provides the backstory for a forthcoming hero named Taliyah. Called 'The Bird and the Branch', the story focuses on a young girl's exile and subsequent use of her powers.
Alert gamers in China have snapped several photos of an elder woman kneeling before and praying to a League of Legends statue outside a local internet cafe. The statue portrays LOL's Garen, though it is assumed that the woman mistook him for Lord Guan, a Chinese general during the Three Kingdoms period.
Riot Games has announced that it has purchased outright a studio called Radiant. Radiant has a game out called Stonehearth and one in development called Rising Thunder. However, Radiant has revealed that development on Rising Thunder will stop and the current alpha will end on March 18th.
According to The Daily Dot, Riot Games raked in $1.6 billion dollars last year alone thanks to League of Legends. The dollar figure came via a SuperData Research report that combines digital sales data from publisher, developers and payment providers and pairs it with "qualitative consumer insight".
Riot Games is teasing the next hero for League of Legends in a new trailer called "Mind of the Virtuoso". The cinematic video shows a being during its creation with the text, "I will make you beautiful. I will make you perfect." See what you think!
Riot Games has announced that Tencent has purchased the remaining equity in the company making it now fully-owned by the Chinese investment holding firm. Riot said that the deal was made in order to provide employees with a cash-based incentive program to make the company more competitive in terms of benefit packages and more.
In a new interview with Polygon, League of Legends social systems developer Jeffery Lin revealed that toxic players will be losing at least a pair of opportunities in the game once the massive 2016 updates begin to hit. Most notably, repeatedly participating in toxic behavior will see reported players losing the opportunity for loot rewards in game that can include free skins, limited time mounts and more.
Every League of Legends pre-season brings with it enough changes to really alter the landscape for the upcoming season, and this year is no different. In fact, I’d argue the changes Riot Games has in store for LoL in 2016 are some of its ambitious yet.
League of Legends is closing in on the one billion dollar mark for total revenue earned solely through microtransaction sales. This is up sharply from last year's revenue total and puts them ahead of all other games worldwide, including last year's earnings winner, Crossfire.
The battle begins, and sixteen teams across the globe are fighting towards one goal: to win the League of Legends World Championship. To kick off the start of the action, we set out to craft a war cry to rally behind. Whether you're a solo queue warrior or fighting off the LCS jitters, every moment counts. "Warriors" -- a creative collaboration by Imagine Dragons and Riot Games
Riot Games has released the first in a trio of videos that follows several gamers as they make their way to the League of Legends World Championships this fall. The first profiles three LoL players and chronicles their careers within the game, all leading up to the championships. Check it out and let us know what you think!
Riot Games has released a new League of Legends video called "A New Dawn" that shines the spotlight on new champion interpretations and team fights. The cinematic also features a behind the scenes look at the process behind the creation of the video. Check it out!
KCON, the largest Korean-entertainment-centric convention has plans this year to host a special "Ongamenet League of Legends Champions Festival - Special Greet & Match". The celebration will include four Q&A sessions, autograph/photo sessions with LoL pro-gamers and friendly 5v5 pro-gamer LoL matches.
