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Tencent, the Chinese tech behemoth, and owner of League of Legends developer, Riot Games, has reported it made $21.9 billion in revenue for 2016. Diving deeper into thefinancial report for the year 2016, which was released today, Tencent report that “online games revenues grew by 16% YoY [year on year]” …
Read More »MnM Gaming now sponsored by PC manufacturer Stormforce
Stormforce, a leading gaming PC manufacturer in the UK, has announced they are now sponsoring MnM Gaming. MnM Gaming, or Molotovs and Marshmallows to give them their full name, are a UK-based eSports organisation that compete across League of Legends, CS:GO, Overwatch and Hearthstone. Their recent achievements include League of …
Read More »Riot and MLB’s new LoL streaming platform coming “soon”
At the end of last year Riot and BAMTech, an offshoot of MLB, agreed a reported $350 million broadcast rights deal for League of Legends eSports. Since then we have heard very little, but according to Riot’s co-head of esports Jarred Kennedy, a new streaming service for LoL eSports is …
Read More »Chinese LoL player banned after provoking and ignoring a referee
Xie “Icon” Tianyu, the mid laner for Chinese League of Legends team Oh My God, has been banned from playing in the team’s next game. The ban has been handed down after Icon decided to annoy the referee in his game against Game Talents. After throwing his headset Icon apparently …
Read More »Riot Games: Taking Play Seriously
For live games the design process never ends. Jem Alexander talks to Riot Games’ Design Director, Greg Street, about balancing and adding features to a game played by millions of players daily
Read More »Major roster shuffles hit the NA LCS mid season
When Doublelift announced he would be playing for Team Liquid for the rest of the split we assumed the roster changes were done, but boy were we wrong. Phoenix1, Team Dignitas and Team Liquid have all made more changes to their rosters, causing havoc in the NA LCS. Team Liquid …
Read More »Intel talks IEM, VR, money, TV, and the future of eSports
IEM Katowice is one of the largest tournaments in eSports, so big in fact it’s split across two weekends. While official stats have yet to be released, many thousands of fans swarm on the Spodek Arena in the small Polish town to watch the best LOL, Starcraft 2 and CS:GO …
Read More »Doublelift will play for Team Liquid for the rest of the Spring Split
Last year Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng announced he would not play for TSM in the Spring Split to focus on streaming instead. But now he is back. However it may not be where you think, as Doublelift will be playing for rivals Team Liquid. After a horrific start to the season …
Read More »Riot wins $10m lawsuit against League of Legends cheating service
A company that created and sold bots and scripts that allowed players to cheat at League of Legends has suffered a major defeat to developer Riot in the courts. LeagueSharp sold a number of subscriptions starting from just $15 a month that allowed players to quickly level characters without actually …
Read More »Team Liquid to make changes to its LoL team mid split after horrible start
Team Liquid, one of the most storied teams in League of Legends history, has had a terrible start to the 2017 season and currently sit bottom of the North American LCS. This of course is not where the team want to be, they constantly make the playoffs and are usually …
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