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Yasuo, a martial artist character with the power of the wind, was added recently to the League of Legends champion roster. And if you play this character properly, he's almost undefeatable in certain situations. Here's Aaron "Bischu" Kim, one of the best players around showing off his skills and the characters'Read more...

Last week, a group calling themselves DERP launched DDoS attacks on the servers of a number of the world's biggest games (and games companies). It seemed like an awfully big list of victims for such a simple and ancient form of attack, but as Ars Technica explain, there was a bit more to it than that.Read more...

Marcel "Dexter" Feldkamp, a pro gamer on the League of Legends circuit, landed in Washington on Friday on the way to a tournament in California. It's as far as he got.Read more...

Here's a messy, stinky Twitch, ready to ruin a League of Legends pool party. Concept artist and character designer Genevieve Tsai played with the idea giving her favorite League champions cartoony looks and personalities.Read more...

The League of Legends division of Korean pro team CJ Entus chose quite an interesting way to greet the new year. Instead of doing montage videos, they have dressed up two of their pros, Madlife and Flame, as League characters Blitzcrank and Ezreal.Read more...

Justin Carter, the 19-year-old League of Legends player who earlier this year was imprisoned for making a Facebook comment that was flagged as a terrorist threat, has had his motion to quash the case denied, according to a report today by San Antonio's KENS 5 news.Read more...

Don't look now, but League of Legends is one of the biggest games in the world. And that's in spite of the fact that, while appearing simple, it's surprisingly complex, and burdened with one hell of a lexicon.Read more...

Some people just can't accept that a competitive video game and its world championship finals can fill up a huge sports arena. In a recent episode of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, where the show's panelists discussed the events of this year, League of Legends got it in the neck.Read more...

Professional gaming is on the rise. Everyone's playing, everyone's getting paid to play, everyone's watching, everyone's happy. Right? Nope. Just like any other sport on the planet, for every winner, there is a loser.Read more...

Riot Games has done an about-face on their policy blocking contracted players in their League of Legends Championship Series from streaming rival games.Read more...

League of Legends stepped up its game as an eSport in 2013. More that 30 million people watched the World Championship finals, and it became the number one online game in many countries, including South Korea. After such a strong year, it's no surprise a video with the best moments of the season would be intense.Read more...

First reported in a story on OnGamers, if you're signed up to take place in League of Legends' League Championship Series, your contract bans you from streaming any game that can even remotely be seen as competition for Riot's online juggernaut.Read more...

Modding League of Legends characters back into WarCraft III? Cokemonkey proves that even after more than 10 years, the WarCraft III World Editor, grandfather of all MOBA games, is still great, and has absolutely no trouble handling League champions—in particular, Orianna, The Lady of Clockwork.Read more...

Meet League of Legends' newest playable champion: Yasuo, the Unforgiven, a martial artist who uses the power of wind to defeat his opponents. He sure has some pretty exciting skills, especially his wind wall ability, which blocks all enemy projectiles—something that'll likely cause ranged heroes many headaches.Read more...

We knew a lot of people were watching SK Telecom T1 battle their way to the Summoner's Cup in League of Legends' Season 3 World Championship, but 32 million? This year's Oscars had 41 million, and that's packed with people paid to make us love them. Read more...

League Of Legends, eh? Yeah! Got to love all those leagues it has. And the way the men do the… that thing with the… guns? Are there guns? Oh God, look, okay, I haven’t the faintest idea about League Of Legends. Yes, I co-own the world’s greatest PC gaming website, and it’s been my job to write about PC games for the last fifteen years, but that imperfect storm of strategy-meets-multiplayer-meets-e-sports propels it so far out of my understanding that it may as well be, I don’t know, foot-to-ball. I understand that there are some rules, and the men with the complicated haircuts have to kick and not throw the ball into the other side’s net, but beyond that it’s like the physically manifestation of a language I don’t speak. Theretoalso, League Of Legends. Fortunately, there’s a handy video below to explain what’s coming up this season.

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China's online game market is breaking sales records year-on-year in the world's most populous nation. In 2013, this market alone is poised to make over $11 billion, according to Gameindustry.biz. But which are country's favorite online games? Let's take a look.Read more...

I once played a game that’s very similar to League of Legends for seven hours, and that makes me Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s resident lane-pushing expert. So when news comes along that changes are coming to that game’s League system, which is presumably very important because it’s in the name, then it only makes sense that I be the one to tell you about it.

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Following the way Riot Games spotlights their League of Legends champions, YouTuber Crazy Boris made a similar flash animation for the main character of King of the Hill, Hank Hill.Read more...

When people talk League of Legends, they throw around a lot of numbers. 32 million monthly players. 5 million people playing concurrently. Viewers topping 8 million during the Season 3 World Championships. It all adds up to one thing: League of Legends is the most played video game in the world right now, and not exactly by a slim margin.Read more...

And you thought guys only got into esports for the chicks.Read more...

I came, I saw, someone else conquered. Last weekend, I attended League of Legends’ Championship Series finals, which – in an undeniably historic moment for eSports – were held in Los Angeles’ Staples Center, a venue that’s played host to thousands upon thousands of fans through countless professional basketball games, boxing matches, and hockey games. Also, er, WWE Summerslams. League has, in other words, entered The Big Leagues. Even the US government recognizes it as a sport, and it is a body literally incapable of agreeing on anything else. But, as Korea’s SK Telecom T1 absolutely shut out China’s Royal Club, I bore witness to both glorious, beautiful triumphs and worrisome failings. I’m no League of Legends eSports expert, but perhaps that enables me even more to say this much: the sport still has a lot of important growing to do. Here’s what I saw.

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A bad League of Legends pickup match can be like showing up to a party wearing the exact same outfit as someone else. It’s super awkward, and you almost immediately start arguing over who gets to slaughter your mutual enemies and their pets while everyone else keeps one of you from keeling over. “I owned this dress first! And I’m a way better AP Carry than you,” says my mixed metaphor born of sleep deprivation, immediately conjuring up images of LoL players of all ages, codes, and creeds duking it out in ostentatious party gowns. Fortunately, Riot might just have a solution (for the role selection issue; not my sleep deprivation or intrusive party gown fantasies): a smart team builder that matches players based on which roles they feel like playing.

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It all started with a promise. If Korean team SK Telecom T1 won this year's League of Legends World Championship, Congressman Jun Byung-hun said he would cosplay as a LoL character and post the photo proof online. Read more...

Thirty-four vintage League of Legends champion skins that had been removed from the in-game store will be making a comeback, developer Riot Games has announced. The entire set will be made available over the course of several months, with previously-retired Halloween skins coming this month, Christmas and winter skins in December, Winter Olympics skins in February, and soccer World Cup skins in June.

Of the 34 vintage skins, the most common, Bewitching Nidalee, appears once every 971 games in North America. The least common, Ice Toboggan Corki, appears once every 116,586 games in North America. "We think it's important to solve this, especially since we believe skins are primarily about self-expression and fun, not exclusivity," the company stated in its announcement.

Players who already own the skins will be compensated in several ways: they'll receive a number of Riot Points equal to the amount they originally paid for the skin, a special visual effect on their champion's image during match loading, and an exclusive summoner icon.

To see all the skins which will be re-entering the Fields of Justice, check out the official post. If you have any questions you want to ask Riot regarding the skins, they'll be holding an AMA on Reddit October 15, starting at noon, Pacific.

Someone has claimed to hack the Twitter account of the president and co-founder of Riot Games, the makers of League of Legends, using it to publish images and templates from a completed-but-unreleased League of Legends card-based game. "Riot doesn't want you to play this game," said "Jason," the hacker.Read more...

Sad news for StarCraft fans, but great news for League of Legends fans. Lee "MarineKing" Jung Hoon, one of the most famous and iconic personalities of the StarCraft eSports scene is stepping away from space battles and entering League of Legends territory.Read more...

Jinx, the next addition to the League of Legends roster, looks more like some villain from the DC Universe than one of Riot's champions. And her explosive introductory music video, performed by Agnete from a band called Djerv, further intensifies this.Read more...

The League of Legends Season 3 world finals went down in Los Angeles over the weekend. It was a big deal. You may not have known that from simply following online, but if you'd been at the Staples Center, like all these people were, you would have got a taste.Read more...

I a substantial chunk of Friday night at Atlanta's Battle & Brew game bar, watching the League of Legends 2013 World Championship while my friend tried to explain what was going on. The only thing that stuck with me was this awesome animation of the game's top players, created by the animation studio behind The Legend of Korra. Read more...