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League of Legends Shutting Down Mac Support

Riot recently announced the indefinite closure of the Mac-compatible client for their massively popular competitive multiplayer game League of Legends after over a year in development. In a forum post to the community, Lead Community Manager Tamat explained that the fortnightly update cycle that Riot uses to introduce new champions to League of Legends has resulted in the Mac client constantly playing catch-up to the PC client...

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Posted by Kotaku Sep 04 2011 20:00 GMT

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#leagueoflegends After about a year of beta testing, Riot Games is canceling Mac OS support for League of Legends at midnight on Tuesday. More »

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League of Legends will shut down its Mac client Tuesday, so play now

Posted by Joystiq Sep 04 2011 18:30 GMT

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Riot Games has officially canceled OSX support for League of Legends, concluding after 13 months of work with TransGaming and Mac beta-testing. The Mac beta client will be shut down "indefinitely" at 12 a.m. on September 6, this Tuesday. LoL Mac-ers, if you didn't have plans for Labor Day on Monday, now you do. Riot hasn't eliminated the possibility of a Mac version in the future, but it won't be any time soon.
"We realize our current approach regarding the Mac platform won't guarantee the quality and frequent updates we deliver today on the PC and are expected by our player community. We will continue to investigate the opportunity to provide player access on the Mac Platform in the future that aligns with our service and content update standards. We are committed to building a solution that will work on the Mac in the long run, but it will take some time." Mac beta testers who used the store can keep their accounts open and continue playing on PC, or receive a full refund on their purchases, which would close the account entirely. As consolation, Riot will give all Mac testers a code to unlock the Champions Pack, which can be redeemed if a majority of your logins come from the Mac client and you enter the Store before service is shut down Tuesday.

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Defense of the Questions: League of Legends

Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Sep 02 2011 07:46 GMT

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At GamesCom we had a talk with producer Travis George and designer Ryan Laughlin from League of Legends. Dan Griliopoulos was left feeling like the world’s biggest doofus, for not having played their game and for having fallen behind on the special language employed in competitive gaming.(more…)

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eSports draw record viewership numbers at Gamescom

Posted by Joystiq Aug 27 2011 07:30 GMT

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Jax nerf..was that honestly necessary?

Last year, 254,000 individuals attended Gamescom. This year that figure grew to 275,000 and amongst those attendees, 223,000 stopped by the ESL (Electronic Sports League) arena to check out competitive gaming live in both StarCraft 2 and League of Legends, as well as several console titles. Perhaps more impressive was the ESL's live feed, which was visited by 500 percent more people than last year.

Turtle Entertainment, the organizer of ESL at Gamescom, is clearly happy with the turnout of what was the first stop on the ESL Pro Series Winter season 2011, Germany's national video game league. "The response of the visitors in our hall was overwhelmingly positive," said Turtle Entertainment's managing director Ralf Reichert. "Gamescom has proven once again that eSports has thousands of enthusiastic followers, not only in the world but also in Germany."

Hit the jump for the full press release.

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Posted by Yagami Aug 22 2011 04:21 GMT

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Riot (probably) has a list of champs that can never be good (again). Jax is (probably) on that list.
Kayle getting SCALING buffs. *crag*ing hell.
Oh boy, Taric buffs. Now I can be truly outrageous again.

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Nidalee got hit the hardest
or at least that's what hotshot is saying

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Annie got buffed

Posted by darkz Aug 23 2011 23:20 GMT

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by which i mean she got a new skin which is super adorable

New Best Gamers is quite relevant.

LoLicons

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Germany Loves PC Gaming

Posted by Kotaku Aug 20 2011 09:16 GMT

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#pc Gamescom is held in a massive convention center that sits aside the Rhine. Inside there are towering halls of concrete and steel, each filled with massive booths, games and people. More »

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Posted by weedlord bonerhitler Aug 18 2011 04:35 GMT

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So...in my extremely long absence I've picked up a liking to league of legends...anyone here play?

all this league of legends stuff

Posted by Yagami Aug 15 2011 07:40 GMT

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darkz sucks its cock day and night

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play with me right now yeah? I'm wideeye

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If you Squint, these Four DOTA Games All Look the Same

Posted by Kotaku Aug 16 2011 02:30 GMT

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#dota I'm sure that, like snowflakes or explanations for the finale of Lost, no two DOTA games are alike. But when a non-DOTA player like me sees a pair of group shots of DOTA games, I can't help but wonder about the range of visual variation in one of gaming's hottest genres. More »

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League of Legends Season Two Has a Massive Prize Pool

Posted by IGN Aug 15 2011 16:57 GMT

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League of Legends second season esporting $5M prize pool

It's a great time to be awesome at videogames. After Valve's announcement last week that the first public showing of DotA 2 would coincide with a $1 million prize pool, Riot Games today announced the prize pool for the second season of League of Legends would be even larger. Five times larger, to be precise...

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Posted by Joystiq Aug 15 2011 16:45 GMT

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League of Legends Season Two Flaunts the Largest Prize Pool in eSports History

The second competitive season of League of Legends begins this fall, with a five million dollar prize pool on the line, reportedly the largest in eSports history. "Players will certainly step up their game in season two - so it's only fair that we step up ours," says Brandon Beck, CEO of Riot Games.

The League of Legends season one championship drew in 1.69 million online viewers, with 210,000 unique viewers for the finale. The game itself now has over 15 million registered players, with over 3.6 million monthly active users (over 1.4 million playing daily). Riot Games will also add the new League of Legends mode, Dominion, sometimes after PAX.

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Posted by Kotaku Aug 15 2011 15:20 GMT

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#leagueoflegends In case anyone was looking for motivation to get involved in League of Legends' second season of competition, Riot Games has just presented five million convincing arguments in the form of the largest prize pool in eGaming history. More »

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I bought Pentakill Mordekaiser

Posted by darkz Jan 20 2011 01:09 GMT

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I am now the best Mordekaiser player ever.

ok

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Next champion isn't balanced, calling it now

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so skarner is pretty much like the best thing ever

Posted by darkz Aug 13 2011 08:05 GMT

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League of Legends Dominion mode previewed on video

he is also a pokemon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi2PXyepi1o

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new comic

Posted by darkz Nov 21 2010 18:00 GMT

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it's not darkz and syst tho

That is pretty much exactly how it works

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okay nevermind the nerfs went a little too far. he's boring to play though. played him once. stomped faces. got bored.

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Posted by Joystiq Aug 09 2011 01:30 GMT

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Riot Games Unveils League of Legends: Dominion

Perhaps our hefty preview of the upcoming Dominion mode in League of Legends wasn't enough. Honestly, for die-hard League of Legends fans, we doubt anything would be. With that in mind, check out a preview video put together by Riot itself. And yes, there is gameplay. So very much gameplay.

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Posted by IGN Aug 04 2011 18:30 GMT

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League Of Legends To Get New Game Mode

Dublin, Ireland - Riot Games, the game company behind League of Legends, today unveiled League of Legends: Dominion, a brand-new capture-and-hold game mode for the hit multiplayer online battle arena title. Coming soon, Dominion features non-stop action, relentless player-versus-player combat, strategic teamwork, and nail-biting competition played on an entirely new map, the Crystal Scar...

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Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Aug 04 2011 15:21 GMT

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The new game mode is called Dominion. It is a capture-point game mode fought on a new map called the Crystal Scar. Riot explain: “On the Crystal Scar players will battle for control of five capture points, holding them to damage their enemies’ nexus. The game ends when one team had seized control long enough to drain the opposing team’s nexus down to zero. Battles last around 20 minutes, and focus on high-intensity, player-versus-player combat.” High-intensity! None of this middle-intensity rubbish, right. No date for it yet, but presumably after PAX and GamesCom, because it’s being shown off to the press at those events.

There’s also a trailer for it around here somewhere. Hmm.(more…)

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League of Legends Dominion preview: The squared circle

Posted by Joystiq Aug 04 2011 14:00 GMT

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League of Legends Gets New Fast-Paced Game Mode, Map

League of Legends recently reached a total of 15 million registered players. Perhaps the most surprising thing is that all of those players have played their matches on just two different maps, one made specifically for Defense of the Ancients-style 5v5 play, and one made for 3v3 combat (there are a few other maps in the game, but they're used for training, not full game modes).

That's about to change. Last week, Riot Games invited Joystiq over to its headquarters in Santa Monica, California, to see a brand new game mode for the online competitive title. It's coming along with what Senior Producer Travis George calls "the biggest update we've ever made for League of Legends," a new content release subtitled Dominion.

Dominion is a brand new gametype and is especially notable because all of the games in the growing DotA (or MOBA) genre have basically used the same premise: two armies of minions fight with equal strength across a series of parallel lanes, and player champions fight minions and each other to gain ground and win the battle. Dominion, however, is a brand new set of rules, combining elements of the DotA genre with scoring, much more akin to EA's Battlefield games or Call of Duty's Domination mode.

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Posted by Kotaku Aug 04 2011 12:24 GMT

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#leagueoflegends The Defense of the Ancients genre seems to be heating up. Last week Heroes of Newerth went free to play. Earlier this week we learned that Valve's DOTA 2 will be playable at Gamescom and now comes news from League of Legends. More »

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Do You Play League Of Legends? Speak!

Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jul 27 2011 17:21 GMT

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The League Of Legends noise machine has been loud this week, with a trailer for the new patch (below) which will nerf some of the more popular heroes, but also a big boasting stats release. Here’s what they said: “As of today, 15 million people have registered to become League of Legends players. Each month, over 4 million people log in to play. And on each day, 1.4 million summoners play League of Legends together.”

Four million! That’s even more people than read RPS each month. My startling powers of logic lead me to reason that this means that some of you lot must also play League Of Legends. You have one comment thread: explain its appeal to me.(more…)

Just How Popular is League of Legends?

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Posted by Kotaku Jul 26 2011 18:20 GMT

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#leagueoflegends As the first season of competition comes to a close, League of Legends developer Riot Games celebrates by dropping some incredibly impressive player statistics for the free-to-play online action strategy title enjoyed by more than 1.4 million players a day. More »

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Ten League of Legends Games are Started Every Second

Posted by IGN Jul 26 2011 13:00 GMT

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League of Legends surpasses 15M registered players, 1.4M play daily

League of Legends is an extraordinarily popular game. The free-to-play DotA-inspired multiplayer online battle arena (or MOBA for short) was released on October 27, 2009, a little under two years ago, by Riot Games (check out our League of Legends review). In February this year the company was acqui...

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Posted by Joystiq Jul 26 2011 13:18 GMT

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