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Korean team SK Telecom T1 (SKT) swept Chinese opponents Royal Club (RYL) 3-0 to win the League of Legends World Championship and claim the $1 million prize last night. The Grand Finals were held at the Staples Center in front of 13,000 live fans and, according to a tweet from GameSpot's Rod "Slasher" Breslau, more than 1 million concurrent viewers online, not including viewers from China or South Korea.

Despite the pre-game analysts desk all picking RYL to come out on top, it was SKT that dominated. While the first two games in this best-of-five set went 30 minutes or beyond, the final blow that saw SKT crowned champions came in at just under 21 minutes.

The entire world championship can be watched via the YouTube embed above, but if you want to skip the pre-game chat and speculation, the first match starts at 1:54:20, the second match starts at 2:47:54, and the final match begins at 3:53:00.

The League of Legends Season 3 world championship is going down tonight. You can watch the whole thing, live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, right here.Read more...

The League of Legends World Championship finals are going down at the Staples Center in Los Angeles tomorrow, and there'll be a big crowd in attendance. Among them will be plenty of cosplayers. Who are going to have some interesting conversations with security, no doubt.Read more...

Leagues of Lore: I watched this entire League of Legends "Lore in a Minute" video and I still don't really know what's going on in League of Legends. But hey, there's a lot of lore to cover.Read more...

The League of Legends semifinals concluded with two teams on top: Chinese team Royal Club and Korean team SK Telecom T1. Royal Club and SKTT1 will fight for the $1 million grand prize in a best-of-five match on October 4 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. This is the third season of the League of Legends Championship Series, and it's a sold-out event with 11,000 fans registered to attend.

Last year, Taiwan team Taipei Assassins won the series trophy, amidst a few scandalous delays. In July, the US government recognized pro League of Legends players as professional athletes, granting visas to international players.

The League of Legends semifinals concluded with two teams on top: Chinese team Royal Club and Korean team SK Telecom T1. Royal Club and SKTT1 will fight for the $1 million grand prize in a best-of-five match on October 4 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. This is the third season of the League of Legends Championship Series, and it's a sold-out event with 11,000 fans registered to attend.

Last year, Taiwan team Taipei Assassins won the series trophy, amidst a few scandalous delays. In July, the US government recognized pro League of Legends players as professional athletes, granting visas to international players.

You have to be in a League of Legends World Championship finalist team to get the attention of devoted fans and get an awesome The Offspring parody song—like this one from The Yordles on YouTube.Read more...

Jinx, the Loose Cannon, will be the next addition to the League of Legends roster, developer Riot Games announced on Thursday. The Joker-like criminal loves mayhem, as evidenced by a wanted poster on the League of Legends site which lists some of her crimes: "murder," "making fun of the peace," "murder again" and "forging of official wanted posters."

Jinx is a marksman champion, meaning she uses long-range weaponry to deal physical damage to her enemies. Her "Switcheroo!" ability swaps between her two equipable weapons, Fishbones the rocket launcher and Pow-Pow the minigun. Her "Zap!" ability damages and slows the first enemy it hits, and her "Flame Chompers!" ability lays down incendiary grenades which root champions who walk over them to the ground. Jinx's ultimate ability, "Super Mega Death Rocket!," can travel across the map and deals damage to the first champion it hits, as well as all nearby enemies based on a percentage of their missing health.

Jinx is currently in beta, with no set date as to when her mischievous hi-jinx will go live.

Now, the secret to that painfully convoluted subhead is to say “Harleague of Legends” as though it’s one word. Then Quinn. Get it? DO YOU? DO YOU, HUH? HUH? YOU WEASELY LITTLE- sorry. Got a little worked up. Must be leftover fury from the League of Legends pickup game I just played. Point is, LoL’s new champion Jinx is kind of like Harley Quinn from Batman. Similar voice and personality, a penchant for crime, and an unavoidable attraction to “loose-cannon” antics. She also has a rocket launcher that she’s quite find of, which adds a double-meaning to the whole loose-cannon thing. I have now explained two jokes in the same post. I should probably stop now. After all, it’s like they say: three strikes and you’re dead. I very much like my life, so scurry on to get some fresh, hot details below.

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What works just fine in DoTA might be problematic in League of Legends, at least according to PlayerPOV's parody video. LoL matches, especially lower ranked ones, are full of flamers and abuse? That's right!Read more...

YouTuber Elspeth clearly had a lot of fun mimicking the voices of all 115 League of Legends champions—especially when she impersonates the male champs. But all of them are very well done.Read more...

There’s a lot of trash talk in League of Legends. Eating something spicy might be just the thing to distract from all the vitriol. But when one dude chows down on one of the hottest foods in the world, all he hears are his own groans of pain. Read more...

The League of Lengends World Championships are in full effect, and it's so exciting some fans even go Super Saiyan after seeing their team win.Read more...

Can you name all the League of Legends champions above? Turned into 8-bit characters by digital artist Reversesquats, this roster-demake rather resembles Mega Man or Final Fantasy characters from the NES-era than a current-day MOBA.Read more...

Fourteen of the top League of Legends teams from around the world have converged on the Staples Center in Los Angeles today, the first step on a long journey to the Grand Finals on October 4. The competition is fierce. The commentators are going crazy. Watch all the action here. Read more...

Sometimes, you just can't help but get frustrated while playing a game. It's fair; we're human. But it's probably in your benefit to keep cool and not rage while playing—at least, if the game is League of Legends.Read more...

Last week a bizarre but delightful viral video asked one simple question: what sound does the fox make? (Lots of things, it turns out.) This week, Instalok asks the tougher question: what sound does Teemo from League of Legends make?Read more...

Man At Arms' master swordsmith Tony Swatton returns, this time forging what may be the most complicated weapon he's made yet: the Zenith Blade, from League of Legends.Read more...

Streaming League of Legends for 13 hours nonstop was enough for Siv HD, a League of Legends player mostly known for his unorthodox gaming methods, to raise a whopping $106,000 for charity.Read more...

EVE Online lead designer Kristoffer Touborg announced on his Facebook page yesterday that he will be abandoning the CCP Games ship, as he prepares to join forces with Riot Games to work on League of Legends.

"It's been an incredible five years, working for a company I love, on a game I love," Touborg wrote. "Not a lot of people get that opportunity, but I did and I'll always be grateful that CCP let me work at a place where I'd get up every morning and be happy to go to work."

Touborg didn't specify what position he would be holding with Riot, nor when his time with CCP officially ends and his time with Riot will officially begin, but he did mention the massively successful MOBA's competitive scene as a driving interest. To all the star-crossed EVE lovers Touborg leaves behind, he wrote he would "happily do it all over again."

Getting teammates to play support in any game is tough, and League of Legends is no exception. Part of the issue is that support doesn't always seem as glamorous as other roles. And part of that, too, is that players often need to learn how to think about the game differently.Read more...

A quite amusing update just went live for Riot's popular online game, in which Janna, one of the game's champions, got reskinned as a legendary meteorologist—with a new voiceover and plenty of funny references.Read more...

Every League of Legends champion has a story, and this is the one behind Lee Sin, the blind monk. Not only can you see his history in motion in this live-action fan film by K&K Productions, you also get to see him duke it out with Katarina.Read more...

Sure, there are general types of people you never want on your team—but every game also has very specific types of people who play the game, depending on the game's quirks. So here's curseentertainment's take on who the worst League of Legends teammates are...this wouldn't happen to be you, would it?Read more...

OK everyone, ready? Now breathe deep – fill your lungs with the thick, muggy air of anger surrounding your person – and siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. Another week, another popular game got hacked. This time, it’s MOBA-kinda’s favorite largely benevolent emperor, League of Legends. You know the drill: change your various passwords and pay very close attention to your credit cards. The latter goes double here, because Riot’s confirmed that the hackers managed to make off with some old, thankfully encrypted credit card info. Better safe than sorry.

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One of the most popular online games on the planet has been attacked by hackers.Read more...

American Express is launching League of Legends-branded pre-paid debit cards that give customers Riot Points, in-game currency, with their use. It's kismet - Riot Games wants to make it easier for you to spend money in League of Legends, and American Express wants to make it easier for you to spend money period, as long as that cash comes from its accounts.

Card holders will get 1,000 RP for signing up, 1,000 RP the first time they load up $20, 1,000 RP with the first direct deposit of $20 or more and 1,000 for their first 10 purchases. League of Legends cards come with images of Teemo, Vi, Lux, Twisted Fate, the Summoner's Cup or the game's logo. Ads for the cards will start popping up on Wednesday on the League of Legends Championship Series website, The New York Times reports.

This isn't American Express' first foray into the digital gaming world - in November it launched a program that rewarded account holders for finishing Halo 4. And you thought Steam was the only reason to hide your wallet in the freezer.

Normally, games will filter obscene words, or cursing. League of Legends, curiously, filters out the word "Satan"—but not other religious words such as Jesus, Allah, Zeus, Venus and God. In response, a petition urging Riot to stop censoring the word appeared this weekend.Read more...

Typical credit or debit cards offer incremental rewards for purchases—frequent flier miles, cash back, etc. American Express and Riot Games will offer a debit card that returns points for in-game purchases in League of Legends, the New York Times reports.Read more...

A month ago, Riot Games said it had gotten the U.S. government to include eSports contestants under the visa policy that allows professional athletes from other countries to visit for purposes of competition. The first such visa has been awarded, to a Canadian League of Legends star.Read more...