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Riot Games has announced that it plants to open a new office in London. While the company is yet to make an official statement a post on the Riot forums from Mark Cox, Head of Riot UK Publishing, revealed that the company is currently in the process of opening an …
Read More »Riot Games is opening a London office
Riot returns to England with a new branch
Read More »Riot Games owner Tencent posts $21.9 billion in revenue for 2016
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 »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 …
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