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Heroes of Newerth suffered a hack yesterday, which resulted in user passwords potentially becoming exposed. The same hacker has now boasted that they are eyeing up League of Legends as the victim of their next hack. Get the details below.

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League of Legends will not be released on Steam, despite the game showing up recently in the Steam Registry log.

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League of Legends could be due for a Steam release, following a discovery of the game on Steam’s registry. Get the details below.

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League of Legends developer Riot Games has established a new anti-griefer task force it calls the Player Behaviour and Justice Team. It’s job is to stop being being “jerks” online. Learn more about why the studio felt the team was necessary below.

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Quantic Gaming, the North American esSports team, has disbanded after investors pulled funding, according to team member Rod Breslau. It was said neither “players nor staff knew about it beforehand.” The eSpots team had at least a dozen players or more assigned to its StarCraft 2, Call of Duty, and League of Legends teams. Breslau said some the affected players were already talking with other North America teams. Quantic Gaming formed in 2010 and won five Major League Gaming events. Via Gamespot.

Riot has proved again just how serious it is about improving the notoriously toxic player culture of League of Legends.

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Two of the largest eSports organisations have teamed up to prepare for the next season of the League of Legends Championship Series.

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League of Legends is to receive another new update from Riot Games, dubbed ‘The preseason update’, which looks to tweak the game’s champions, jungle, items and areas. Get the details below.

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League of Legends has new champion by the name of Zed, and he’s apparently the Master of Shadows.

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The British F2P market is now worth £216, according to new research into the sector conducted by analysts SuperData. It’s a rapidly growing scene, the stats suggest.

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League of Legends has upgraded its new 3v3 map Twisted Treeline from PBE to beta, meaning you can finally put it through its paces.

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Riot Games has released a few statistics from its Season Two World Championships finals, which carried one of the largest prize pools in eSports history and attracted an equally staggering number of spectators.

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League of Legends hero Elise, the lady who loves spiders so much she can turn into one, has been detailed a bit more by Riot. You know you love the idea of a scantily-clad mage-assassin as much as the next person. But that’s not all: the latest patch has hit public beta and according to PCGamesN, Rengar and Evelynn are getting nerfed while Syndra is getting a bit of a boost. Changes to other heroes have also been noted, and to find out if the changes will make you happier than a witch in a broom factory or crankier than a bear trapped in a shoebox, head through the link and squeal or weep in kind.

League of Legends is getting into the holiday spirit with a new environment, some themed skins, and a brand new champion, Elise the Spider Queen.

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Eagle-eyed early adopters of The War Z have turned up what looks to be an embarrassing bit of copy-pasta.

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LAN support for League of Legends will not be made available to the general public outside of tournaments, Riot has confirmed.

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Taiwanese team Taipei Assassins has secured a $1 million grand prize in the League of Legends Season Two World Championship.

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League of Legends is getting LAN support for for tournaments, according to Riot CEO Brandon Beck, who said support will be added to the tournament finals scheduled for today. Whether a LAN support client will be released to the public is unknown. Riot also promised news on the Mac client would be coming “soon.” The League of Legends Season Two Finals take place today. Thanks, D’toid.

League of Legends developer Riot Games has unveiled a raft of statistics on the game’s success, stating that it has now hit 32 million active players a month and more mind-boggling stats.

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Riot Games has completed its investigation into reports of cheating at the League of Legends World Playoffs, finding one team guilty as charged.

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