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The latest video game company to join the ranks of those opposed to the Stop Online Piracy Act is Riot Games, developers of the insanely-popular League of Legends. More »
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There's a new way to play popular multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends today, as Riot Games goes live with its brand-new Dominion game mode. More »
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After about a year of beta testing, Riot Games is canceling Mac OS support for League of Legends at midnight on Tuesday. More »
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Lately, Defense of the Ancients-style games have exploded in popularity. Valve is working on DotA 2, and has already held their first international tournament. Meanwhile, Riot Games is releasing an update to their widely played League of Legends called Dominion. More »
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In case anyone was looking for motivation to get involved in League of Legends' second season of competition, Riot Games has just presented five million convincing arguments in the form of the largest prize pool in eGaming history. More »
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The Defense of the Ancients genre seems to be heating up. Last week Heroes of Newerth went free to play. Earlier this week we learned that Valve's DOTA 2 will be playable at Gamescom and now comes news from League of Legends. More »
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As the first season of competition comes to a close, League of Legends developer Riot Games celebrates by dropping some incredibly impressive player statistics for the free-to-play online action strategy title enjoyed by more than 1.4 million players a day. More »
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A week ago, Ryan Winzen was a college student with another year and half until completing his degree. Today, he's the mod community's Cinderella story, with a foot in the door at one games studio and a pat on the back from another. More »
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Click to viewA YouTube takedown and a call from a top lawyer for a major games publisher notwithstanding, what happened this week to the programmer leading a fan-made StarCraft role-playing game must be the secret hope of many a modder. More »
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Here's a tip, budding customer service representatives of the world: if you're going to abuse your powers in a video game and treat your customers like dirt, don't do it while you're live-streaming the game. More »
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The people running the video game League of Legends knew they had a problem. They had the same problem that makes much of the Internet unpleasant. Too many people were being jerks online. They're hatching a novel solution: citizen justice. More »
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For PC Gaming Week, Kotaku has invited top creators to predict the future of computer gaming. Now, we hear from Marc Merrill, top man at Riot Games, the development studio behind the Defense of the Ancients-inspired League of Legends. More »
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Oh it's on. After several months' worth of pre-season play, Riot Games is ready to kick things into high gear with next week's launch of League of Legends' first official competition season, complete with ladders, ranked games, and draft mode. More »
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Riot Games, the game company behind action role-playing game League of Legends, has signed a deal to get the game distributed in Southeast Asia. That's good news, but it's also bad news. Now, it's more bad news than anything else. More »
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Meet the latest Champion to join the ranks of the League of Legends, Nidalee, a young girl raised in the Kumungu Jungle by older women seeking the company of younger men. Or cats. One of those. More »
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What started as a modification of Warcraft III by a group of fans has turned into an ambitious free-to-play PC strategy title packed with a surprising amount of tactics in an easy to pick-up-and-play package. More »
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Free-to-play, highly addictive PC game League of Legends recently went on sale and live for those wanting to play for free. More »
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The evolution of Defense of the Ancients is now freely available, as Riot Games opens up the beta for League of Legends in advance of its October 27th "pre-season" launch. More »
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Riot Games today adds five new characters to the ever-expanding roster of champions in League of Legends, the upcoming multiplayer online battle arena. More »
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Riot Games wants to build a huge following for League of Legends, and its willing to flood the closed beta of the game with Facebook users to make that happen. More »
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While Riot Games' League of Legends is speeding towards a September release, the company still craves your testing acumen, and isn't above bribing you with exclusive Champion skins. More »
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Riot Games announces today that its upcoming Warcraft III mod turned full game League of Legends will be free-to-play, with a premium retail edition available for those that would rather pay. More »
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In case you needed further proof that Riot Games' League of Legends: Clash of Fates was a real game, we give you...the snow level. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5196067&view=rss&microfeed=true In case our feature on Riot Games' upcoming mod turned action-strategy game League of Legends didn't adequately explain what the game was, perhaps the official gameplay trailer will. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5160730&view=rss&microfeed=true Riot Games - the crew behind DoTA have hired some of the people behind the popular Defense of the Ancients mod for Warcraft III, taken the basic premise of the game and created their own independent IP - League Of Legends. Players control a Summoner - a commander character that can be leveled up and enhanced - who controls troops taking part in organized arena-type battles. The game is 'semi persistent' with champions and gaining levels and items that are lost at the end of a session, while your core Summoner avatar will be carried forwards to the next bout. Hit the jump for some screens... More »
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Founder and former CEO of Jamdat Mobile Mitch Lasky, now a partner at Benchmark Capital, is putting a $7 million vote of confidence behind a new game company, Riot Games, headed up by CEO Brandon Beck and president Mark Merrill. Making me feel like a total slouch, by the way, because at age 26 and 27 respectively, my age peers Beck and Merrill are heading up a multimillion-dollar company. More »
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