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Riot Games Cancels Minecraft-Inspired Game in Development and Lays Off Developers
In difficult times like these, it is not uncommon to hear about canceled projects. Even Riot Games has decided to pull the plug on one of the games in development at one of its teams. Hypixel Studios and the End of Hytale A Difficult Update About HytaleHey Everyone,Today, I shared…
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League of Legends Fighting Game Announces Playtest Dates
You don’t have to like League of Legends to be excited about the upcoming spinoff fighting game 2XKO, from its amazing drawn art style to its promise of easy-to-learn but hard-to-master mechanics. Now although the game may still be far away the developers have just announced that they will be…
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Valorant on PS5 Won’t Include Gyro Aiming to Maintain Fair Play
Riot Games has announced that Valorant on the PlayStation 5 will not include gyro aiming. This decision aims to prevent Xbox players from being at a disadvantage. Gyro aiming, which allows for more precise control, is supported by the PS5’s DualSense controller but not by Xbox controllers. Ensuring Competitive Balance…
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Valorant Executive Says Riot “Needs to do Better” about Player Harassment
One of Valorants executives says that “Riot needs to do better” about dealing with harassment in their games. This is following an incident that happened during a prominent Valorant Twitch streamer stream where serious threats of violence were made towards her by another player. On Monday, May 13th the streamer…
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League of Legends Community in Uproar as Riot Defends PC Bricking Anti Cheat
In the latest patch that has come to League of Legends, the developers have added the infamous Valorant Vanguard Anti-Cheat. Now thanks to some Reddit posts the community is in uproar about claims that the new Anti Cheat is causing some people’s PCs to brick. Vanguard is a kernel-level anti-cheat…
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RIOT Games Refocusing Leads To Lay-Off of 530 Staff
Riot Games is an LA based company founded in 2006 best known for League of Legends and Valorant, two incredibly popular games that regularly hold strong player counts. Unfortunately, that isn’t enough for the company, or it’s too much to be more accurate as they have announced some restructuring at…
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League of Legends Source Code Stolen – But it’s Not As Bad As you Might Think!
In terms of gameplay, I can’t honestly tell you that much about League of Legends since I never really played it all that much. Well, I did enough to learn two things: Firstly, I’m not very good at it. And secondly, a lot of people on my team seemed to…
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Riot Games Stand Firm Despite Staff Walk Outs
Riot Games Stand Firm It seems that the workforce at League of Legends developer Riot Games is not exactly happy at the moment. This was clearly evident as the staff staged a protest walkout earlier this month. In a report via Polygon, however, Riot Games seems fairly content to ignore…
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Riot Games Staff Follow Up on Threat by Staging ‘Walkout’
Riot Games Stage Protest WalkOut Last week we reported how things between Riot Games and the senior management were not exactly going well at the moment. The League of Legends developer was facing something of an in-house insurrection following widely publicised accusations of sexism and discrimination last year. Well, following…
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League of Legends Staff Said to be Preparing Mass Walkout
League of Legends Staff I must admit that I have not played a lot of League of Legends, but I have played enough to know I’m not very good at the game. This is a fact that was made abundantly clear within about 3 minutes of my first ever game…
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League of Legends Developer Wins $10m in Cheating Lawsuit
A lawsuit brought by Riot Games against LeagueSharp, a subscription hacking service to aid League of Legends players to cheat at the game, has been settled for $10 million. The suit, filed in August 2016, alleged that LeagueSharp, which offered bot-assisted playing in League of Legends for $15-per-month, violated the…
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BBC Three to Livestream League of Legends World Championships
Mainstream media outlets like the BBC have ignored gaming for a substantial amount of time and often produced inaccurate hit pieces to discredit the industry. However, it’s impossible to ignore the dramatic rise of eSports and the huge prize total during major competitions. Unbelievably, many of the leading players in Starcraft…
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League of Legends Developer Cuts Ties With Key Reseller G2A
Grey Market key selling websites have become a controversial topic in the last few months as questions arose about the legality of their activities. Originally, Steam’s incredibly aggressive sale strategy meant the majority of purchases were conducted on Valve’s own client. However, this has dramatically altered as sale discounts dwindled…
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Ex-Riot Games Developers Bring Vainglory MOBA to iOS
If you thought the only time you’d be playing MOBAs was when you were at you desktop, and that moving around in the car, train, plane, couch or toilet were safe from your addictions to MOBAs… think again. Super Evil Megacorp, a bunch of ex-developers from Riot Games, Blizzard and…
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Lizard Squad Take Down Twitch and League of Legends
Game streaming service Twitch.tv and online game League of Legends have been hit by notorious hacking group “Lizard Squad”, leaving both services offline for gamers and spectators alike. The hacking group, or what ever we should be calling them, launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in the early…
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