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People you followTaggedGeneral - Opinion/EditorialCommunity ReviewsOff-topicCommunity PodcastersBloggers Wanted ResponseLetters to Dtoids EditorsGet InvolvedGeneral BadassnessJoin a Live Stream EventListen to CommunitoidJoin a Playdate EventCompete in a ContestDuring my competitive years, I wouldn't settle for anything less than ranked Summoner's Rift, 5v5 (Dota). But as I started to fill my schedule with other games and responsibilities, I needed another mode that I could dedica...
| Chris Carter |
League of Legends has just launched a new champion, which means many of you are considering digging out your wallets and forking over the cash or in-game IP to have the chance to try her out. This time, it's another caster ce...
| Chris Carter |
Lissandra has arrived in the world of League of Legends, and she's ready to take care of business. An an ice witch, Lissandra has the power to impare enemy movement first and foremost, as nearly all of her abilities snare or...
| Chris Carter |
MachinimaVS channel has a new series going on where they'll be following various pro players in the world of eSports. The debut episode follows Peter "Doublelift" Peng, a pro League of Legends player who talks about what it ...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
You saw League of Legends' Quinn and Valor in action recently, but now, you can let Riot Games walk you through them completely with their new Champion Spotlight. Based on the footage, Quinn and Valor look really fun to play...
| Chris Carter |
Quinn and Valor are the latest champion duo to join the ranks in League of Legends. Yeah, you read that right, I said duo. Quinn has a ranged attacker and Valor is her flying hawk companion, and you get to play them both at ...
| Joshua Derocher |
Riot Games has been drumming up a storm for the third season of competitive play for League of Legends. The road leading up to the start has been a surprisingly long journey. It started with a lot of gab at th...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
Riot Games is no stranger to the spotlight, and certainly not above giving players their own chance to shine. The competitive scene for League of Legends has blown up in the past two years since it launched. Things ...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
Riot Games Associate Producer Steve "Udyr" Mieczkowski has just dropped a bomb that's been years in the making: the League of Legends Mac client is now in testing, with an open beta period coming in the near future after a PB...
| Chris Carter |
You would be forgiven for thinking that the very public example of professional League of Legends player IWillDominate getting banned due to unruly behavior would have made people think twice before repeating history. Not so:...
| Jordan Devore |
For newcomers looking to get into League of Legends ranked play, the game's Elo rating system isn't as immediately straightforward as they might have hoped. With Season 3, Riot Games will be introducing a new system not unlik...
| Jordan Devore |
Riot Games has placed a ban on professional League of Legends player Christian Rivera (IWillDominate). "His persistent tendency to engage in verbal abuse and insults, his lack of cordial demeanor, and his treatment of less-s...
| Jordan Devore |
It wasn’t too long ago that big sweeping changes were being discussed about the future of League of Legends. Well, now it seems like the change has gone live on the main servers. To commemorate this, Riot games has put...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
It seems like we can't go too long without there being some big news about League of Legends. It can be something small like a record-breaking number of users, or perhaps a map with a new mode, or even a holiday getting the f...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
A week ago, Riot Games teased its new Halloween event while keeping a good bit of detail secret. Now, not only are more details available, the event has gone live and is in action! There's a new champ out, new harrowing-them...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
Riot Games has been very well known for celebrating holiday events in League of Legends with a great deal of flair. This Halloween seems to be no different with the announcement of The Shadow Isles, a newly revealed area of t...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
League of Legends -- lots of buzz, little stats. That changes today, with the second annual releasing of the League of Legends infographic. Like last year, Riot Games has put out a graphical representation containing numerous...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
[Update: As noted by GameSpot, Riot Games has since come out to confirm that the offline mode for League of Legends won't be playable from home or LAN centers. VP of eSports Dustin Beck said that "We built an offline solution...
| Jordan Devore |
Despite having a hard time with employment and keeping membership afloat this year, GDC Online's judges sent Bioware Austin home with four awards for its Star Wars MMO The Old Republic. The developer won four awards in its si...
| Allistair Pinsof |
Following the postponement of the League of Legends season two World Playoff matches due to technical difficulties, Riot Games has announced when and where you'll be able to catch the rest of the games leading up to the Worl...
| Jordan Devore |
If the almost-weekly dose of MLG League of Legends just is not doing it for you, then I have great news. From November 2nd to the 4th, eight teams will compete for a chance at $30,000 worth of prizes during MLG's Fall Ch...
| Patrick Hancock |
If you missed out on watching the League of Legends season two World Playoffs this past weekend, you were hardly alone. The semifinal matches encountered a number of on-and-off connectivity issues, which resulted in blank str...
| Jordan Devore |
GameBattles, which allows users and teams to sign up and compete in tournaments, is adding Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and League of Legends to its fall lineup of online ladder tournamen...
| Patrick Hancock |
Tune in here! MLG Summer Championship will be live very soon with competitions for StarCraft II, Mortal Kombat, SoulCalibur V, and Leage of Legends. Here's a quick rundown of the competition times (EDT) for the weekend:...
| Patrick Hancock |
It wasn't too long ago when Riot Games was hyping up the season two championship as being the big new thing to begin a strong focus on revolutionizing competitive gaming, or "eSports," into something that no one ha...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
This past weekend, Major League Gaming hosted a League of Legends competition, featuring a $10,000 prize, winner take all. Two teams, Curse Gaming and Team Black, won qualifying tournaments beforehand for spots in this compet...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
League of Legends is that massive choo-choo train pulling free-to-play gaming goodness into the competitive sphere. Multiple circuits have been running across the globe, sponsored from not just the game developers themselve...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
If you play League of Legends in the EU (EU West and EU Nordic & East databases), be prepared to start changing some of your account information (both in LoL and everywhere else you use the same info). It seems as if Riot...
| Chris Carter |
League of Legends, the fantastic competitive online game brought to you by Riot Games, has been going through a lot of changes over the past couple of months since the last time we posted about the game here on Des...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
That's Emumu in the header, otherwise known as the emo version of League of Legends champion Amumu. Come October 13, 2012, we'll have one thing in common: we both won't be competing in the League of Legends Season 2 champions...
| Chris Carter |
Last week, League of Legends saw a patch that swept the game with a massive change: the removal of the dodge statistic. Beyond this, a character was completely reworked, and a new one was introduced. Though it should be an o...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
The removal of the "Dodge" statistic has been something that Riot Games has been very open about sharing with the community. Today marks the big announcement that the stat removal will be completed with the patch coming next...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
[Update: Logins are reenabled now, and all the content is in the store for purchase] This past Tuesday saw the release of a new patch for League of Legends. It had the usual contents, another character, some new skins, and ga...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
Patches are about a dime a dozen for the highly popular League of Legends. The Volibear patch that dropped today marks some changes that are small signs of bigger things to come. Riot Games has put out a preview video, which...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
Riot Games announced that League of Legends, their free-to-play Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, has hit the 32.5 million player mark. With this, comes a wide selection of cumulative statistics relating to the game that they ...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
Riot Games is always good about keeping League of Legends up to date, adding new modes and characters, as well as balancing items and current combatants. Today is no different with a rather significant patch to th...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
This week, Riot Games announced that it would be starting a limited-run beta session for the upcoming League of Legends mode, Dominion, during off-peak gameplay hours. I've gotten to experience this new mode during one of the...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
League of Legends has a funny definition of a "season." It's now the 61st week in, and season one of the ranked games can now come to a close. This means that over the coming few weeks, the majority of player ELO rankings wi...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
Riot Games gave the Mac version of League of Legends a try, but that's not always enough. Both Riot and TransGaming "have been exploring every possible avenue to ensure the Mac version is up to Riot standards," according to...
| Jordan Devore |
I always love watching fan communities for specific videogames. The conversations, speculation and other random works that come out of them are usually sights to behold, even if you might not know all the backstory. League o...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
This year at PAX Prime, Riot Games had its own booth, and what a booth it was. They were showing off the new game mode for League of Legends, "Dominion," on a humongous screen, while shoutcasting matches to all who stopped ...
| Jesse Cortez |
I've always been a big fan of developers releasing notes or videos talking about how they want to go about handling game production and updates. Not only the methods, but also the reasoning and goals they want to achieve. Ri...
| Sterling Aiayla Lyons |
It was almost two years ago when League of Legends was first released and since then the game has received a cult-like following. League of Legends has helped cement the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) genre into video...
| Lori Navarro |
The next addition to Riot Games's League of Legends is called Dominion. This new mode is essentially a capture-the-flag style gametype where each team has to take over and defend key points on the map. The new mode takes pla...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
When Riot Games first introduced League of Legends in 2009, I wasn't sure how quickly it was going to catch on. In retrospect, it seems silly that there was ever a doubt in my mind. The company is now saying the title has sur...
| Jordan Devore |
Wukong, The Monkey King, is Riot Games' take on the popular Sun Wukong and they have adapted his mythological background to fit in the League of Legends universe. Apparently some Chinese players are not too happy with this fo...
| Maurice Tan |
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