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Riot Games has announced player numbers for its extremely popular League of Legends title, and they're pretty phenomenal. With over 15 million registered players, the Defense of the Ancients-style online multiplayer RTS can now brush shoulders with games like Blizzard's World of Warcraft (12 million players), Call of Duty (13 million players on Xbox Live), and The Sims (16 million copies sold), as one of the biggest PC games in history. Granted, as a free-to-play title that relies on microtransactions for revenue, League of Legends has more access to a wider audience than games driven by retail sales or subscriptions. But there's no question at all that this is a huge and exceptionally popular game.

Joystiq got to talk with CEO and co-founder of Riot Brandon Beck about today's announcement, and he says that even the company was surprised by how big LoL (as it's called in shorthand) has gotten. "The growth of the League of Legends community far exceeded our expectations," he tells us. "We are proud of the numbers we are hitting on our platform and are confident our fantastic team can continue to grow and evolve our PvP.net technology to handle even greater numbers."

Witness the drawing and creation of the Monkey King!

We don’t tend to do too much in the way of ‘person x changes job’ stories here, which is primarily because the knowledge that disgusting organic creatures are responsible for our beautiful digital worlds is a horrifying truth we can’t accept, but also because… well, people do change jobs. This one stood out to me, however, due to both source and destination. The lead gameplay designer on Mass Effect 2 and 3, Christina Norman, has left Bioware – but to go where? Oh, that’s right, it says it in the headline. Yeah, League of Legends dev Riot Games.

So, from a console-straddling mainstream RPG/action developer that’s bigger than it’s ever been to the young home of devoutly hardcore multiplayer PC games.(more…)

Christina Norman, lead gameplay designer for Mass Effect 2, announced on Twitter today that she has taken a new Lead Designer position at League of Legends developer Riot Games.

Last week, Norman announced that she was leaving BioWare and moving to Los Angeles, but didn't disclose the identity of her new employer until today. Preston Watamaniuk, Mass Effect series lead designer, will take Norman's place at BioWare.

"I'm looking forward to working with Riot on innovative new approaches to game design and game development in the rapidly-changing video game market," Norman told Gamasutra. League of Legends and Riot are emblematic of these changes, as a free-to-play, microtransaction-based game developed by a company recently acquired by China's Tencent.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaDmC0SsT4g&feature=player_detailpage#t=68s

i like this game

it is very good

i always play malzuhar because he is a magician and he can kill people a lot

i also play udeer because he can turn into a bear and kill people a lot

i also play twistid fat because he can teleport and kill people a lot

i also play nocturn because he can also teleport and kill people a lot but also because he is a manifestation of a nightmare who lives to terrify innocent people and kill people a lot

I used 2 play evelinn but she wuz broke by morello (more like GAYrello amirite???)
i used 2 also play twytch but he was also broke

panteon was good 2 but now not so much

zilean is good 2 but he's a terrorist and terrorists r bad

swain is cool he turns into a raven but hes like gay or something

nidalee is hot shes mai waifu!!!!!!

mordekaiser is op he never lose health!!!!!

all of the yorldes are gay i dont play them

shaco is knives or something

annie is diapers

mrs fortun confuses me is she pirate or cowboy

xin zhao kills too much

garen is link

katarina is his waifu

ashe has big boobiez

soraka is useless does no damage

janna is is naked put clothes on plz

gragas is also nakedbut janna is hot

fidolstix is a scarecrCAWCAWCAWCAWCAWCAWCAW

le blonk is weird shes like the lady from 101 dalmations but evil and when i try to kill theres two

ezreal is weird she does haruhi dance but she has male voice and her glove has powers

kayle is weird too he has a female voice and doesnt do much

taric is michal jackson but no dance

sona plays music and she looks like hatsune miku but with boobs not real good

warwick is annoying i try kill he heals and then he attacks and i cant attack and i die op pls nerf

galio is dargon he wuz powerfull but now does no damage

trundle has a poopstick and always bites me

vladimeer is my favorit champ he can heal and hide from bad people he is vampire

malfight is rock

maoki is tree

kassdin is like malzuhar but he teleports and does no damage but kills still

shen is ninja but not good ninja does no damage but never dies sometimes teleports he is also a doctor

akalee is his girfrend she does damage but always dies she is his assistant nurse

chogath is dinosaur always screams and get big

kogmall is his frend always throws up on me

amumu is like galio but cries too much dont use

jax is dook nookam

catelin has gun always big damage

irelia worst champ does no damage until peopol find out how to play now op

karthas always win press r everyone die

ugort is weird does damage but then nothing

sivir is dum champ does no damge do not use

 

there are many peopol in this game that u can use but the ones up here are da only good ones

every1 else is dumb do not use

 

there are 3 maps in this game

 

the first one is twistid treeline and it is very small

only good character to play on this map is jax

 

the second one is sumoners rift

it is very big

all characters good

 

the third is sumoners rift HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

it is very scary UH OH A GHOST POOPED OUT

 

this is my review of leage of legendz and i give leage of legendz 4 hardcores out of 2

Take some time to get to know the Valkyrie known as Leona!

Riot Games made the decision this week to split up its European server into two separate platforms in order to help out with lag and other issues. The company is now running both "EU West" and "EU Nordic and East" servers on the Old Continent, each offering League of Legends matches and services to their various regions.

Feedback on the official forums is mostly positive (and the split should provide faster games to those on either of the new servers), though a lot of players seem concerned that there's another division between the two regions. You can read the full press release after the jump -- Riot says each server is designed to support "hundreds of thousands of concurrent players." Just between us, though, if they could send a little extra lag to Evelyn players, there'd be no problems with that.

DUBLIN - This past Wednesday, Riot Games announced plans to launch a second platform in Europe to support the rapidly growing League of Legends player base in the continent. Beginning soon, service in Europe will be allocated between two regional game platforms: 'EU Nordic & East' and 'EU West.'...

LOS ANGELES - Riot Games today announced the conclusion of the League of Legends Season One Championship, the $100,000 tournament to determine the best team in the world. After three consecutive days of intense League of Legends competition at the world's largest computer festival, Dreamhack, Fnatic...

Meet some new faces both in game and out in this featurette from Riot Games from E3 2011!

With the League of Legends Season One Championship over and done with, Riot Games has announced that the event's live coverage drew more than 1.69 million viewers. The final match between team FNaticMSI and Against All Authority brought in 210,000 unique viewers by itself. We're not experts in eSports viewership, but that certainly sounds impressive.

In case you missed the final matchup (spoiler: Against All Authority's nexus doesn't survive), you can watch a recording on the League of Legends championship website, which also features loads of other coverage, including full match recordings and highlights from each day of the tournament.

MOBA fans probably had a great weekend, as the final rounds of the League of Legends championship tournament played out at Dreamhack in Jonkoping, Sweden. If you have no idea what League of Legends is, check out our League of Legends Basics page, then come back here and watch the championship match ...

What is League of Legends? League of Legends, or LoL for short, is a free-to-play competitive multiplayer online battle arena (or MOBA) game from Riot Games in the same vein as the Warcraft III mod DotA. I'm not familiar with DotA so that doesn't help. What's a game of League of Legends like...

The growing audience of League of Legends fans will have the opportunity to tune in to the Season One Championship Finals from June 18-20, taking place at the world's largest digital festival, Dreamhack. The full tournament schedule, info on live broadcasts and online coverage details can be found below and at www.LeagueofLegends.com...

Riot Games' League of Legends is one of the biggest free-to-play titles around -- it started off as a spiritual successor to the old Defense of the Ancients mod, but has since grown, strictly by word of mouth and organic growth, up into its own industry. Riot hasn't actually announced player numbers for the title yet, but this is a huge game online, persistently landing in the top spots on Steam and Xfire's most-played lists.

If you've never played (and why not? It's free!), the basic structure of the game has you controlling a champion on a real-time strategy-style battleground, and Riot has been releasing one of these new champions every few weeks for quite a while now. In the game's booth at E3 last week, we got to hear about three of the upcoming new champions, as well as brand new feature to the game designed to get even more players involved: A spectator mode.

Riot usually stays pretty tight-lipped about upcoming champions until a week or two before they're released, but at E3 this year Lead Champion Designer Ryan Scott told us exactly who is coming in the next few updates...

Riot works on a two-week development cycle. Every Wednesday (with a couple exceptions) a new champion enters the League of Legends. That quick turnaround time puts a lot of pressure on the development team, which means that there is little time to iterate on other features. Or, at least, that's how ...

DUBLIN, Ireland - Riot Games, developer and publisher of the award-winning PC game League of Legends, is happy to present the Tribunal, a new peer adjudication system designed to foster a positive experience for the game's growing community. The Tribunal, which encourages players to participate in anonymous peer review juries, puts the power to enforce behavior standards into the hands of gamers themselves...

Name a champ, and you shall be taught to play

Since I'm not playing much of this game until "soon™" arrives, I will put my knowledge to good use

I am still the best morde ever.

I can't play anymore because riot *crag*ed up their launcher and I end up lagging and crashing half the time.

Vayne is gay.

Carry/Caster Morde > Tank Morde > Spellvamp Morde

I am not the best Trundle

or Nocturne

or Garen

League of Legends fans await every second Tuesday like a gap-mouthed seven year-old awaits the tooth fairy, or bored teenagers await drinking age, or I await every second League of Legends Tuesday. For it is every fortnight that Riot introduces a brand new champion to their DotA-inspired competitive...

League of Legends is a DotA-inspired competetive multiplayer game in which two teams square off on a battlefield and attempt to destroy their opposing base. Each player on each team controls one champion for the duration of the fight, and while the rules are very simple, the nuances that ultimately ...

Meet the champion Rumble, a steampunk junkyard goblin mech brawler.

Fans of League of Legends may know that developer Riot Games likes to introduce new champions on a fortnightly cycle. This week's champion is Rumble, the Mechanized Menace, a fuzzy little critter inside a death-machine of doom. Rumble is what Riot Games designer Phreak calls a "bully," designed ...

Just in case you were worried, it looks like Razer's Switchblade ultra-portable PC "concept" is totally, really real -- in China at the very least. Razer, Intel and Tencent have announced "a strategic partnership aimed at expanding the entertainment possibilities for Chinese gamers" based around the Switchblade. Several of Tencent's titles, including League of Legends and Dungeon Fighter Online, will be optimized for the Switchblade and its magical keyboard.

There's still no release date for device, with the three companies only promising that there will be updates in "the months to come." That's probably for the best, as we're fairly certain that the ability to play League of Legends at any time will bring civilization to a screeching halt.

Harness the power of fire as Brand in League of Legends.

Riot Games, developer and publisher of the acclaimed PC game League of Legends, today released the latest champion to fight on the Fields of Justice Brand, the Burning Vengeance...

For anyone who has ever wondered what the whole "league" part of League of Legends was referring to, Riot Games has announced the season one championship, which will be held at this year's Dreamhack Summer event in Sweden this June. The season one circuit will end on May 2, at which time Riot will choose the world's top eight teams (three from North America, three from Europe and two from South East Asia).

These teams will be flown to the Dreamhack event and compete for three days beginning on June 18, culminating in the championship round on June 20. Riot hasn't specified exactly how much the winning team will walk away with, though there is a total of $100,000 in cash prizes up for grabs. And to think Mom said "those free internet games" wouldn't get you anywhere!

Lest a flight to Sweden is a bit too much for your pocketbook to bear, the championship matches will be available via live streaming.

Dublin, Ireland - Riot Games, developer and publisher of the award-winning PC game League of Legends, today announced details of the Season One Championship the culmination of the first season of League of Legends. With $100,000 in cash on the line and the chance to be crowned the inaugural champions of hit multiplayer online battle arena title, competitive players everywhere will be watching as the finals unfold in Jonkoping, Sweden on June 20, 2011...