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League of Legends introduces comprehensive tutorial
CLANG! “A new quest has been added to your quest tracker!” proclaims the seductive announcer. Clicking on the new quest, the environment freezes and turns to a yellow tint as my camera moves over to...
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A look at the LoL champion design process
“It’s so much better to hear someone complain that you’re overpowered in person,” Game Designer Colt “Ezreal” Hallam says, prepping me from over my shoulder for a round of League of Legends. It’s 5...
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Exclusive reveal of two new champions coming to League of Legends
Last month, we revealed three upcoming LoL champions in our magazine. The first, Caitlyn, has already hit live servers and the second was just announced with no details last night! These champions are...
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Full details on Maokai, new LoL champion
Riot revealed the official ability list and backstory for League of Legend’s next champion, tree-wizard Moakai, who’s slated to be released soon. Avid readers of our fine website won’t find too many...
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Full details on Lee-Sin, League of Legends’ upcoming champion
Good one Riot Games! You really got me with that prank—for a second there, I thought you’d actually confirmed plans to release of the Blind Monk, after years of denying he would ever be revived....
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Sneak peek of three unreleased League of Legends skins
Psssst. Hey! You, at the keyboard. You like League of Legends skins, don’tcha? Yeah you do. What, this patch didn’t have enough? No worries, friend: I’ve got some secret skins right here. Take a peek...
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League of Legends comic roundup: Godlike!
I can’t help it—I love me some League of Legends, and it seems that I am not alone. Part of what makes Riot Games’ MOBA so great is the variety of its characters, and how iconic they are—so iconic, in...
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Riot Games notables talk champion launches and Magma Chamber regrets in...
League of Legends fans know the cycle well: every two weeks, a new champion is released, kicking off a complex chain of events filled with various personalities. Most people are usually fairly excited...
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How To: Survive another day in the League of Legends arena
If you frequent this site, then you’ve probably heard of Riot Games’ free-to-play MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena), League of Legends. You’ve probably also heard that it involves copious amounts...
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Using League of Legends’ new peer-review system to judge griefers (and the...
Prepare to be judged. Yesterday morning, Riot Games released the Tribunal–a peer-reviewing system that’s supposed to help curtail bad behavior in their huge free-to-play MOBA. Our two resident LoL...
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E3 2011: League of Legends’ newest champion, Yorick, in action
Riot Games is about to fill a gap that’s been missing from the League of Legends champion roster: the minion-commanding overlord. Now, this doesn’t mean having just one pet. Nope, Yorick the...
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Delve into the League of Legends thinktank with our predictions for the...
If you’re an avid League of Legends fan, you’ve probably heard a little bit about the two champions slated for release after Yorick: Leona, the Radiant Dawn, and Skarner, the Crystal Vanguard. (If...
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The full breakdown on League of Legends’ Spectator Mode
See, not every piece on League of Legends involves new champions! Riot Games has been working diligently behind the scenes on the highly-demanded Spectator Mode, and it has just about polished it to...
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League of Legends’ Dreamhack finals will be streaming all day long
Update: Congrats to TSM for taking 3rd place! The Grand Finals between the European teams aAa (against All authority) and FnaticMSI are set to start at midnight in Sweden (3pm PST). Come back and...
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Call to Arms: League of Legends’ Tristana [come play with us!]
We periodically host Call to Arms events that rally the entire PC Gamer community behind a single MOBA character for a full week of sweet, sweet gaming bliss. Our goal is to have fun and put our...
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Community Guide: League of Legends’ Tristana
For the past week, the PC Gamer community focused their attention on playing League of Legends’ Tristana. We found camaraderie in the PC Gamer chatroom in LoL, with over fifty players at any given...
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Editorial: Sorry Kotaku, but you’re wrong about pro-gaming
I love e-sports. I mean, I really, really love e-sports. I love e-sports so much that when IMNestea played the then-named BoxeR in the Global StarCraft II League’s season 2 final, I woke my girlfriend...
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League of Legends is thriving; here are the numbers to prove it [UPDATED]
Just in case you didn’t know by now: League of Legends is a great game. In two short years, LoL’s grown to be the leader of the free-to-play pack, and we can’t get enough of it. But we’ve often...
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New map brings chaotic control-point mode to League of Legends
Summoners, your prayers have been answered: a new map is coming to League of Legends. But wait…there’s more! The brand-spankin’-new Crystal Scar map, due out soon, will introduce a unique game mode...
View ArticleWatch the world’s best StarCraft II players at Major League Gaming Raleigh...
Hey you, internetter! If you’re reading this on Sunday evening, you’re just in time to catch the planet’s best professional StarCraft II players at Major League Gaming’s Raleigh finals. If that sounds...
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PC Gamer US November issue: League of Legends Dominion in-depth guide
For our first-ever cover featuring a free-to-play game, it had to be the incredibly popular League of Legends. Our in-depth guide to LoL’s upcoming new Dominion mode will ensure that you have the...
View ArticleLeague of Legends Series Two Circuit trailer goes live, $5 million at stake
Humongous free-to-play real-time-strategy League of Legends’ Series Two circuit begins soon, and Riot Games has literally just released a trailer for it. “The Season One Championship earlier this year...
View ArticleChampion Roundtable: Volibear, the Thunder’s Roar
With a new champion released every two weeks in League of Legends, it can be hard to figure out where your money (RP) and time (IP) are best spent. That’s why we’ve devised the Champion Roundtable,...
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U.S. Congressman joins League of Legends developer in urging fans to oppose...
This morning, Riot Games joined Google, Reddit, Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook on the growing list of internet-based companies to publicly oppose the two extreme anti-piracy bills circling in the U.S....
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League of Legends’ AI bots multiply, get smarter, and move to Dominion...
I ran out of my spawn area on League of Legends’ Dominion map and made a move for the nearest capture-point, which an enemy Sona was stealing from us. I was confident I could take the flimsy healer...
View ArticleChampion Roundtable: Sejuani, the Winter’s Wrath
In the latest installment of the League of Legends Champion Roundtable, Josh and Lucas are joined by GamesRadar’s Hollander Cooper to give the run-down on Sejuani, the newest female tank to storm onto...
View ArticleChampion Roundtable: Ziggs, the Hexplosives Expert
Every two weeks, we give you our verdict on whether or not the latest League of Legends champion is worth buying. Take a seat at the table with Josh, Lucas, and Hollander Cooper as they wax poetic on...
View ArticleChampion Roundtable: Nautilus, the Titan of the Depths
League of Legends’ latest champion is a massive water-logged diver, who looks more than a little like one of Andrew Ryan’s creations. Lucas, Gavin, and Hollander Cooper discuss his tidal highs and...
View ArticleChampion Roundtable: Fiora, the Grand Duelist
En garde! The newest team-carrying melee DPS to join the League of Legends roster is Fiora, the French sword swinger. Josh, Lucas, and Hollander Cooper sit down at the Champion Roundtable to decide if...
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League of Legends Dominion post-mortem: parts of the development process were...
As you might guess, designing an entirely new mode for any game is not easy. Doing so for a playerbase who’s only ever known one gametype is even more of an undertaking. League of Legends‘ lead...
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One billion games of League of Legends played
It’s crazy what you can find lurking in the twitterverse. Yesterday I saw a kitten hugging a squirrel, today one billion games of League of Legends have been played. Wait, what? Christina Norman, a...
View ArticleChampion Roundtable: Lulu, the Fae Sorceress
Who could’ve guessed that the first champion our entire roundtable agrees on would be a cute little woodland witch with her own personal faery? Find out why Josh, Lucas, and Hollander all love this...
View ArticleLeague of Legends patch boosts comebacks, AI, Teemo, Kayle, and support champs
Another big patch is hitting League of Legends tomorrow morning, bringing a new champion, new features, and buffs for some lucky champions. Community Coordinator David “Phreak” Turley and Lead...
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What is League of Legends: Supremacy?
Riot Games’ primary domain manager, MarkMonitor, has just snatched up a ton of URLs all involving two key phrases: “League of Legends” and “Supremacy.” What do we know so far, what could this mystery...
View ArticleChampion Roundtable: Hecarim, The Shadow of War
Josh, Lucas and Hollander dive for cover as the wicked horseman Hecarim charges into League of Legends this week with ghostly scythe and debatable usefulness. See what we think of this new...
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League of Legends World Championships will be worth record-breaking $3 million
You’ve probably heard of a little game called League of Legends by now. 11.5 million people play it every month, and it’s one of the hottest games in professional circles right now. Riot Games is...
View ArticleChampion Roundtable: Varus, The Arrow of Retribution
This week’s roundtable comes early, as we get our hands on the next champion incoming to League of Legends (hopefully) tomorrow: a man who’s lost everything who hunts down vengeance for his murdered...
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How to download League of Legends’ beta client and play all the new champions...
League of Legends’ Public Beta Environment is one of the best-kept secrets in the LoL community. Despite what a majority of players think, the beta server (or PBE) is open to everyone and can be...
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League of Legends to get new ARAM custom map?
League of Legends developers Riot Games plan to release a new map designed to replicate ARAM (all-random, all-mid), a subgenre of normal games invented by players. The new map, named Proving Grounds,...
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League of Legends playoffs soured by allegations of cheating
We posted earlier about some of the aggressive strategies being employed by League of Legends players during the weekend’s World Championship playoffs, but the competition has taken a darker turn with...
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Face Off: Is League of Legends a better game than Dota 2?
Every week two editors debate a new topic—it’s a binary exercise we use to seek common ground conclusions or identify fundamental differences. The “my MOBA vs. your MOBA” argument is a heated one, so...
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League of Legends cinematic trailer shows a giant serpent eating an on-fire bear
I tend to get quite annoyed by pointless cinematic trailers for games, but this luxuriant CGI video for League of Legends won me over – and this is coming from someone too intimidated by LOL (or MOBAs...
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