The first woman League of Legends Championship Series player, Maria ‘Remi’ Creveling, has stepped down from the Renegades team due to stress and anxiety, according to the Daily Dot.
It’s hard to recognize a tipping-point until it’s come and gone. This year, like every other year since 2011 or…
Those big trophies that the winners of League of Legends tournaments get don’t just appear out of thin air. Someone…
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Riot today unveiled the newest addition to the League of Legends roster: Jhin. He’s “meticulous and calculating -…
There’s a lot of good League of Legends cosplay out there, but Kenny Chan’s experience with props and armour (and Mat…
Unlike the other gaming platforms we’ve been evaluating here at the end of the year, the PC’s been around for…
The old “Lollipoppy” skin was, hands-down, the creepiest thing that Riot ever made for League of Legends. The new…
A short story. Last night I was playing a game of league of legends and losing really, really badly. One opponent…
Riot’s making a big change to the League of Legends Championship Series format. Starting next summer, North American games will be best-of-3. European games will be best-of-2. The stated purpose of the two different formats is that they want to try both out and see which is better. Read the whole explanation here.
Here’s an interesting League of Legends statistic: Riot’s lead social systems designer Jeffrey “Lyte” Lin told Polygon in a story posted today that games that had a “role conflict or a position conflict in champion select” were 15% more toxic “no matter what happened in the game itself.” Glad they’re addressing that!
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Three days after unveiling a sizable new figurine based on the popular League of Legends character, Riot Games…
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Out with the old, in with the new. Riot’s released a champion spotlight for Poppy 2.0, the long-awaited rework of one of League of Legends’ oldest and most outdated playable characters. She looks really neat! This probably means she’s coming into the main game in the next week or two, too.
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Permit me to brag for a moment. There are so, so few opportunities for me to show off when it comes to League of…
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This is the new Quinn, a ranged archer character in League of Legends who fights with a giant vicious eagle named…
At the end of last week, longtime League of Legends pro Diego “Quas” Ruiz was suspended from Team Liquid after “an…
Speaking of dramatic shake-ups in League of Legends eSports, top European player Yellowstar just said he’s leaving Fnatic to go play in another region. The entire EU region is susceptible to a talent-drain this year as investment in eSports increases in the U.S. and China and teams there offer greater opportunities.
The League of Legends eSports scene has been abuzz for the past day and a half about pre-2016-season changes coming…
Riot just announced a number of sales it’ll be putting on for League of Legends’ seasonal holiday event “Snowdown,” which will also add a giant Poro King (seen above) to the game’s ARAM map for a limited time. I’d also be into the idea of a Poro champion, but we’ll have to keep waiting for that, sadly. More info here.…
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Annie always looks so small and easy to kill when she’s wandering around with her stuffed teddy bear…