Riot Games co-founders and League of Legends creators Brandon “Ryze” Beck and Marc “Tryndamere” Merrill have decided to delegate ongoing company admin, management, and other dreary business stuff to other people, and get back into actually making games, the two announced this week. So, League of Legends 2? Maybe. Probably.
And by “bot script service”, I mean “cheats”, because that’s what it is. Back in August 2016, Riot Games filed a case against LeagueSharp, a German company that provided a bot script service cheats to lazy assholes for a subscription fee of $15-50 per month, alleging that its bot scripts cheats infringed the game’s copyright by reverse-engineering its own code. LeagueSharp responded by doxing and threatening one of Riot’s employees, and posting rude stuff on that same employee’s social media accounts, because that’s totally the level of maturity we’d expect from a company whose business model is basically “winner at game, loser in life”.
rAge Expo is always a special place and a special time of the year for many reasons, the chief one being that you get to rub shoulders with a lot of people who work in the gaming industry, including professional gamers. International players come to rAge every now and then to talk about their teams, their exploits and themselves and this year Western Digital is bringing down Evil Genius jungler Stephen “Snoopeh” Ellis to talk about League of Legends, his contribution to improving the game and what else he did in Cape Town other than trying to swim with sharks.
As season 3 has now drawn to a close, summoners from around the world are anxiously glued to their keyboards, downing their energy drinks and awaiting that fateful moment when League of Legends announces the dawn of a new league year.
Riot Gaming has announced game-breaking changes that completely reforge the way League of Legends is being played. In the current meta, teams rely on two overfed champions to carry alongside a beefy meat-shield, one utility based support and a high mobility assassin. This composition allows for clean fights and easy winning.
Leg 1 of the NGL Online League 2012 for League of Legends is gearing up for an exciting finish this week. After 11 weeks of intense battles on Summoners Rift, the 29 clans currently playing in the league will face off in their respective divisions over the next three days to try and bag those last few points needed to secure their promotion into a higher division. Next week will see playoff games happening before a two week rest period, and then Leg 2 will kick into action on the 19 June 2012.
Playoffs happen between the top and bottom placed teams of all of the divisions, and is a final opportunity for clans to land a coveted spot in a higher division. The playoff structure looks like this: