League of Legends second season playoffs begin tomorrow
League of Legends' second season playoffs will begin tomorrow, October 4, and run through Saturday. Streams of the matches will be available on Twitch and Own3d, along with Riot Games' official tournament site. Teams are competing for a prize pool of $2 million. Last year's League of Legends ...
League of Legends 'Honor' system is now live
Riot Games has added a feature called "Honor" to its popular online PvP game, League of Legends, partially in the hopes of solving the issue of community management. Honor is something that players will be able to distribute amongst each other after every matchmaking game. After finishing matches, ...
How Guardians of Middle-earth innovates on the MOBA gametype
We first saw Guardians of Middle-earth in action back at E3 this year, and it was quite impressive even then. Monolith has taken the PC-centric gameplay of the emerging MOBA (or DotA, or LoL, or even action RTS, whatever you like to call it) genre, and translated it over to a console and a ...
MLG League of Legends Summer Championship winners disqualified for 'collusion'
Major League Gaming announced late last night that the first and second place winners of the Summer Championship League of Legends Event have been disqualified for conspiring to not play a match to win. "We have determined that there was collusion between the two final teams, Curse NA and Team ...
Solving the League of Legends community problem one player at a time
As any of its millions of players will tell you, League of Legends is a fun game. Those same players will likely also tell you that the game has a tremendously steep learning curve. With more than 100 playable champions, a dizzying array of items and demanding gameplay, getting to know the ropes is ...
Riot games reclaims LeagueOfLegends.co domain from adult site
Riot Games has secured the LeagueOfLegends.co (no "m") website after filing a complaint earlier this year, saying that a domain squatter had grabbed the name and redirected it to a porn site. The case on the World Intellectual Property Organization website has been terminated, and the domain is ...
League of Legends Season 3 'Championship Series' is worth millions
With Season 2 of League of Legends still drawing to a close, developer Riot Games has announced details for the game's third season, which will include a brand new league known as the Championship Series. The series will see the best teams from North America, Europe and Asia face off to compete ...
Riot Games registers URL for 'Supremacy'
League of Legends developer Riot Games was caught with its hands in the domain name cookie jar this week when it registered the URL supremacy.com, WhoIs records revealed. Companies will often use means of privately registering domain names related to as-yet-announced projects, making confirmation ...
League of Legends EU accounts hacked, no billing info at risk
League of Legends accounts in certain European regions have been hacked, Riot Games notified players yesterday. The EU West and EU Nordic and East databases were breached, with hackers accessing email addresses, encrypted account passwords, summoner names, dates of birth and, for a small number of ...
League of Legends season two ends Oct. 13, $3M up for grabs
League of Legends' second season of competitive play will conclude on October 13 in Los Angeles, with $3,000,000 on the line for winners from across the world and regional championships. Teams have been competing since last November to qualify for the regional championships, which will be held in ...
