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Riot Games, Inc., based in Los Angeles, California, is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer. Riot Games was acquired by the Chinese conglomerate Tencent.

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LoL player banned from Garena for RP purchase

League of Legends has to be launched from Garena platform in several Asian regions, similar to games on Steam. Playing LoL becomes impossible if Garena bans you from their platform for purchasing Riot Points from, well, Garena's Shopee.

AUGUST 17

Nexus Blitz coming to LoL live servers soon

Riot Games have announced that Nexus Blitz, a prototype game mode that could become a new permanent stay in League of Legends, will come to live servers rather soon. It will make a debut on live servers at some point with patch 8.16.

AUGUST 14

Riot Games working on new games after all

Rumours have been circulating about a potential League of Legends MMORPG ever since Marc Merrill teased the possibility on Twitter, but confirmation of new games in development only came recently, after alleged disputes with Tencent.

AUGUST 14

Riot says they've taken action against sexism

After a particularly sensitive report by Kotaku accused Riot's "bro culture" of making the company an impossible place to work when you're a woman, the developer responded by saying many instances from the report were handled since.

AUGUST 8

Ezreal, Kayle & Morgana to be updated in LoL

Riot Games have released their next champion roadmap which announced visual and possibly audio reworks for Ezreal, Nunu, Kayle and Morgana, as well as a completely new mage champion. The trio will also get kit reworks, with varying degrees.

AUGUST 7

League of Legends burst damage to get nerfed

Riot Games' balance team is looking to shake things up again in League of Legends. Today's post containing Riot Meddler's thoughts talked about burst damage and how it needs to be addressed via changing items, rather than abilities.

AUGUST 3

Leauge of Legends MMO confirmed red herring

Justin Kranzl confirmed to Variety that Marc "Tryndamere" Merril's tweet asking players whether Riot Games should make a League of Legends themed MMORPG, following map release, turned out to be a joke, even though many hoped otherwise.

AUGUST 3

Echo Fox Academy members disciplined by Riot

Members of Echo Fox Academy were recently involved in a League of Legends griefing incident where they banned their teammates' champions on purpose and impersonated the streamers while doing so. Riot has issued a ruling for the case.

AUGUST 2

EF Academy members trolled a ranked LoL match

Echo Fox Academy members Tristan "Cake" Côté-Lalumière, Mingyi "Spica" Lu and presumably Joshua "Mabrey" Alan Mabrey intentionally banned main champions for two of their teammates in a ranked League of Legends match, sparking controversy.

JULY 28

LoL MMORPG either teased or joked about

Riot Games have released an interactive map of Runeterra, the place where League of Legends is set, which sparked the ever persistent rumours of a League-themed MMO in the works. Marc Merrill further added fuel to the flame via his Twitter.

JULY 25

Tencent vs Montoon copyright lawsuit

Riot Games' parent company Tencent has recently won a lawsuit against Moonton Technology CEO Xu Zhenhua, due to blatant copyright infringement with their game Mobile Legends, which is similar to League of Legends in more ways than one.

JULY 19

League of Legends future champion plans

Riot Games' lead game designer talked about the future of League of Legends' champion roster expansion and reworks in an interview with PCGamesN where he stated that "there's an enormous amount of things Riot Games still want to do".

JUNE 26

Riot Games reach 1 billion views on Twitch

Riot Games are the Psy of video games and their Gangnam Style is, of course, League of Legends. Riot's Twitch channel became the first to break into the 1 billion views bracket, although the numbers are from Twitch.tv instead of YouTube.

JUNE 25

Fnatic Rekkles not on Fnatic roster tonight

Fnatic's star player Rekkles will apparently not be in the roster for the upcoming EU LCS matches as the team director Joey "YoungBuck" Steltenpool announced Bwipo will be the starting "ADC" due to strategic reasons in the latest meta.

JUNE 22

Taric rules the mid lane in League of Legends

League of Legends is currently in what is probably the worst shape the game has ever been in. Riot Games are struggling to keep any semblance of balance and an actual support being the most successful mid laner testifies to that claim.

JUNE 5

TheCynicalBrit is no longer with us

John Bain, video game critic and YouTuber widely known as TotalBiscuit, TheCynicalBrit or TotalHalibut on the internet has passed away at the age of 33, after a prolonged battle he fought with cancer. The message was relayed by his wife.

MAY 25

China is number one in LoL MSI 2018

Korea's firm grip on the League of Legends competitive scene has loosened up during MSI 2018, as Kingzone DragonX didn't manage to win the first spot in either group stage or in the final. Meanwhile, congratulations to RNG on first place.

MAY 21

Faker's earnings were revealed recently

Hong “YellOw” Jin-ho, a former StarCraft player, has recently revealed how much SKT T1's superstar Faker is earning. We have decided to put up a comparison between League of Legends' most popular player and Fortnite's streamer Ninja.

MAY 18

League of Legends will add Parental Approval

If you're a League of Legends player from Europe that's younger than 16 years, you may be asked for parental permission by Riot Games in the future. These permissions requests will be handled via e-mail. What could go wrong, right?

MAY 16

Pyke from League of Legends sounds familiar

Riot Games have teased the next League of Legends champion on their official YouTube channel, where he can be heard talking about taking revenge on people who betrayed him. At first he is growling, but starts sounding familiar later on.

MAY 11

League of Legends will have more tiers in S9

Riot Games have updated their blog with the plans for League of Legends' 2019 ranked season changes. It may look a little early to talk about Season 9 now, which prompts one question - why exactly are they announcing the changes so soon?

APRIL 26

Return of the Blue Essence Emporium

Blue Essence Emporium is making a return to League of Legends, offering players to empty out all the unused Blue Essence for items that are otherwise available only for Riot Points. On top of it, Riot Games are bringing out new mini icons.

APRIL 19

Team Liquid reveal their training facility

Team Liquid have revealed the new Alienware training facility for their League of Legends squad. This happened just in time to host a celebration for their coronation as the NA LCS Spring Champions that happened one day prior.

APRIL 10

inSec joins Origen for the new season

Former LCK and LPL star is joining Origen for the upcoming European Masters tournament which consists of the best team in Europe's minor leagues. This is the first time out of All-Stars matches that two iconic players meet in the same team.

APRIL 2

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