Riot Games, the publisher behind League of Legends, released a statement concerning their much disputed arbitration policy, a week after 200 employees walked off the job to protest said policy. The company confirmed that it will keep its requirement that employees’ sexual-harassment or discrimination complaints be handled through arbitration, rejecting employee demands. According to the
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Despite nearly going perfect in the group stage with a record of 9-1, the 2018 League of Legends World Champions Invictus Gaming quickly found themselves eliminated in the knockout stage of MSI 2019 at the hands of Team Liquid. Team Liquid came out looking strong today in the best-of-5 series immediately taking Game 1 from
Management within Riot Games, the studio responsible for League of Legends, is attempting to quell unrest within their workforce. Internal complaints about the company culture and management’s responses to those complaints have led to the organization of an employee walkout, prompting management to respond, Waypoint reports. It has been well-known recently that employees have expressed
After leaking outright earlier this week, Riot Games has today formally revealed the 144th champion for League of Legends and it’s a cat named Yuumi. Yuumi: The Magical Cat will primarily be a new support champion in League of Legends. The colorful kitten rides upon the top of a book in-game and as its name suggests, possesses
Popular League of Legends streamer Ashkan “TF Blade” Homayouni has been briefly banned from Twitch after it was thought that he used a racial slur during a recent stream. The Team Liquid streamer was thought to have used the “n-word” while playing a recent game of League of Legends. In reality, TF Blade used the word “idiots” which
Riot Games announced the 2019 LCS Spring Finals will be held at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri on April 13, 2019; the matches will begin at 1:00 PM PST. Ticket information for the event will be posted on February 25 via Lolesports.com. The Chaifetz Arena, which is located at Saint Louis University, has
Despite your takes on League of Legends or MOBA as a genre, it is hard not to appreciate the expert marketing that happens over at Riot Games. In their latest push for Season 2019, the development team has released a new trailer and song titled “Awaken” — easily one of the best cinematic and musical trailers so far in
The first game from Hypixel Studios–a company formed from the team behind the largest Minecraft server network on the planet–was announced in December 2018 as Hytale, a spiritual successor to the game. Since then, multiple updates, a first look trailer, and FAQs have been consistently pumped out. The announcement trailer has since crossed 30 million views
Riot Games and Beat Games have teamed up to release the hit K-pop song “POP/STARS” by League of Legends’ K/DA in the VR rhythm game Beat Saber for free. Beat Games has uploaded the entire song’s level with a performance by Madison Beer, K/DA’s Evelynn. You may watch the video below. The song will be added
As 2018 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2018 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
In South Korea, the act of playing ranked matches on another persons’ account–or “boosting”–will be a punishible crime in six months. The person doing the boosting might even go to jail. Going to jail for playing video games though, sounds pretty rad. South Korea, which just took home its third-in-a-row championship title in the Overwatch World Cup,
Marvel and Riot Games have today announced a new collaboration that will soon see one of League of Legends‘ most recognizable characters hitting a comic shelf near you. In May 2019, Marvel will begin publishing a new series of graphics novels in the League of Legends universe. This slate of stories is slated to kick off with League of
After weeks of rumors and discussion, Riot Games has finally revealed the latest champion that will be coming to League of Legends and I’m already frustrated just watching her in action. Neeko the chameleon is the 142nd champ to join the League of Legends roster and as her name implies, she will be able to shapeshift. Neeko contains a
The new KD/A skins for champions Kai’Sa, Evelynn, Ahri, and Akali in League of Legends have been the only thing that fans seemingly want to talk about this week. Now, following lots of feedback from fans, Riot Games is updating one of the skins to more closely reflect the character’s appearance from POP/STAR. Akali’s neon look has
After nearly a month of competition, the League of Legends World Championship 2018 has finally wrapped up, and Chinese team Invictus Gaming was this year’s team to hoist the Summoner’s Cup. The Finals matchup took place between IG and Europe’s Fnatic in what was expected to be a hard-fought series. In the end, it proved
The League of Legends World Championship 2018 wrapped up yesterday with Invictus Gaming taking down Fnatic to win the Summoner’s Cup. Unfortunately, the Finals matchup wasn’t all that entertaining and in the wake of the tournament, it seems the only thing any League of Legends fan is talking about is a new song associated with the game.
After nearly a month of competition, the Finals for the League of Legends World Championship 2018 have at long last been set. This weekend’s Semifinal round was thought to be intense coming in, but instead turned out to be perhaps the least-exciting round of the tournament so far. Both games these weekend ended up series
The west continues its dominant reign at the League of Legends World Championship 2018, with two more teams now having advanced to the final four. In the most recent slate of games in the quarterfinal stage, North America’s final representative Cloud9 went to battle with Korea’s final squad Afreeca Freecs and the American team made
I’ve been saying in all of these write-ups for the League of Legends World Championship that anything can and will happen and that once again proved to be true today. In what is perhaps the most unexpected and crazy day that Worlds has ever seen, both of the favorites to win the entire tournament have
The League of Legends World Championship 2018 Group Stage just wrapped up its second day which means every team has now had a chance to play. As the standings currently sit, China’s representing teams from the LPL currently sit at 4-0 with Korea’s representatives from the LCK finding themselves collectively in a hole early at 1-4
The League of Legends World Championships 2018 continue tomorrow and this is North America’s year to win the whole thing. You heard it here first. If North America were to stand a chance at winning Worlds this year, it stands to reason that the hopes of the region lie most on Team Liquid, the team
The League of Legends World Championships 2018 kicked off earlier this week and as of this morning, the first round of the tournament, the Play-In Group stage, has now wrapped up with those teams moving on preparing for some Best-of-5 matchups this weekend. After four days of play, Edward Gaming won Group A with Infinity Esports
Following the rework for Nunu & Willump earlier this Summer, Ezreal is now the next champion lined up to receive an overhaul of his own. Riot Games revealed the first glimpse of this new Ezreal in action today by releasing a teaser trailer showing off the marksman’s new abilities. All in all, this overhaul of
Esports is my game of the year. No, seriously. Nothing has pulled me in more this year and made me more invested than the League of Legends North American pro scene, and I hate myself for it. After my boys in Echo Fox lost to those scumbags from TSM in the quarterfinals of the Summer Split Playoffs
Riot Games has today released the newest character trailer for Nunu, the latest character to receive a rework in League of Legends, and it’s way too cute. Those familiar with Nunu and his yeti pal Willump will likely notice the visual changes to the champion first as they are strikingly different from before. Nunu’s attire has
There’s been a joke amongst fans and Riot Games themselves for years now that the developer should remove the ‘S’ from the company’s name since they have only ever created one product: League of Legends. Riot has sworn over the years that they will one day create another game besides League, but almost a decade after launching the
Today, China’s Royal Never Give Up defeated South Korea’s King-Zone DragonX in a 3-1 series at the 2018 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational Finals held in Paris, France. The two teams squared off in a best-of-five series giving viewers some great action. In the end, RNG was able to outperform KZ finishing the series in
The quarterfinal round of the North American LCS Spring Split Playoffs are in the book and they were just about as crazy as we anticipated. Saturday’s matchup between Team Liquid and Cloud9 was short-lived as Doublelift and company defeated Cloud9 in three straight games. Despite winning three in a row, the matches themselves were anything
Do you like League of Legends? How about ten consecutive hours of League of Legends? If so, then today was your lucky day if you took in the insane final day of the North American LCS Spring Split regular season. After nine weeks of play, the NA LCS standings were mostly undecided after the end of Sunday’s
After two weeks into the League of Legends North American LCS, the Golden Guardians have announced that they have fired head coach Yoonsup “Locodoco” Choi. The Golden Guardians are off to a rough start to begin the split as they currently rank at the bottom of the standings with a 0-4 record. In the interim, Tyler Perron