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League of Legends Donates to Make-A-Wish Until May 18

Video game developer Riot Games has announced that it will be donating to the Make-A-Wish Foundation in order to honor one of its players, Joe, who is afflicted by a rare form of cancer. Until May 18, 2012 Riot Games has pledged to donate 100 percent of the sales price of Joe, who is the favorite champion of the pla...

8 May 2012
03:54 GMT

League of Legends and World of Tanks Inspired Dust 514

The free-to-play nature of the upcoming Dust 514 first-person shooter from CCP is in part linked to the success of titles like League of Legends and World of Tanks, which have created huge communities after making a lot of content available without a monthly subscription. David Reid, the chief marketing officer at C...

19 April 2012
21:01 GMT

Gamer Dies in Taiwan After Marathon League of Legends Session

A 23-year-old gamer from Taiwan named Chen Rong-yu, died in an Internet Café from New Taipei city, after a marathon session of online strategy game League of Legends. Gamer deaths have been few and far in between, but each one managed to draw in unwanted attention from the mainstream media. Now, a new onlin...

7 February 2012
15:31 GMT

League of Legends Plans Move for Russian Market

Video game developer Riot Games has announced that it plans to launch a Russian version of its Multiplayer Online Battle Arena title League of Legends in the near future, complete with dedicated servers and a new localized website that will help players get quickly up to speed with the game mechanics.Brandon Beck, wh...

12 January 2012
13:01 GMT

Incoming 2012: DOTA 2

What we know:Valve knows that Defense of the Ancients can be serious business and really wants to enter the market, enough to poach one of the man most associated with the original Warcraft III mod, IceFrog, and give him the resources needed to re-create the experience with better graphics and updated mechanics.The g...

9 January 2012
18:41 GMT

League of Legends Gets Season Two with Biggest Prize in eSport History

Video game developer Riot Games has announced that it was ready to launch the second season of its eSports competition, with 5 million dollars (3.71 million Euro) offered in prize money for the best League of Legends player in the world.Season Two of the competition will introduce a number of new features, including ...

23 November 2011
04:36 GMT

League of Legends Has 32.5 Million Registered Players

Developer Riot Games has announced that League of Legends, its free-to-play strategy game built around the DOTA mode, now has more than 32.5 million registered players, with 11.5 million of them playing at least one game each month.The numbers more than doubled since Riot Games reported the same statistics during Jul...

21 November 2011
08:11 GMT

Mac OS X Version of League Of Legends Officially Scrubbed

Riot Games is “regretfully” canceling the League of Legends Mac beta client developed in partnership with TransGaming, citing issues with maintaining consistent parity between Mac and Windows PC versions in a rapid update cycle.Announced last year, League of Legends is regarded as a DOTA clone - an action...

6 September 2011
11:01 GMT

Dota 2 Monetization Is Not Yet a Concern for Valve

Video game developer Valve has said that it is not thinking about a business model for Dota 2, its upcoming Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game, and is currently focusing on making the game acceptable to long term fans of the genre.Speaking to Gamasutra about Dota 2 Gabe Newell, who is the co-founder of Valve, has s...

30 August 2011
16:41 GMT

League of Legends Developer Bought by Leading Chinese Company Tencent

Tencent Holdings, one of the most important Internet-oriented companies operating on the Chinese market, delivering instant messaging services, social networking and online video games to its customers, has acquired a controlling stake in developer Riot Games, the creator of League of Legends. Brandon Beck, who is...

8 February 2011
15:01 GMT

Defense of The Ancients Creators Work on New Game

Warcraft III was a truly great game, which brought fantasy strategy to new heights and further developed the big Warcraft universe. Its unique factions and conflicts gave gamers great stories to play through. But after the singleplayer was completed, the multiplayer aspect, although very entertaining because of Battl...

8 October 2008
04:10 GMT


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