Category: League of Legends News

Riot Games founders Brandon “Ryze” Beck and Marc “Tryndamere” Merrill have announced that they’re returning to the development trenches in an effort, they wrote, to put the “s” in Riot Games, apparently working on something other than League of Legends. Rumors have swirled for years that Riot was working on an MMO.

The League of Legends 2017 World Championship, or “Worlds”, is going to be kicking off this week with some of the biggest names in esports from around the world taking place. This year’s event will be taking place in China at four locations around the country with the finals held in Beijing. Rank-and-file players can get in on the action too by purchasing themed skins, decals and taking part in a variety of in-game missions. Lastly, Ashe will receive this year’s charity skin.

A new reality TV show is going to debut in Australia that is based on League of Legends. Called The Next Gamer, the show will see 40 players duke it out over five days. The winners will ultimately receive $10,000 and a contract with one of the country’s top LoL teams.

Riot Games is the latest in a recent series of developers taking on the makers of bots used to cheat in game. Riot has filed suit against LeagueSharp, a third party program for League of Legends that automates game play. According to Kotaku, Riot attempted an out of court settlement, but LeagueSharp representatives never responded to the outreach.

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!