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Monster Hunter Online publisher and Riot Games owner Tencent has posted its Q1 financials, pointing to a prosperous year for the Chinese online gaming company.

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League of Legends developer Riot Games will by throwing out another update to its mega-popular MOBA game, and it’s another big one, starting with tweaks to Caitlin, and changing up much more.

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Riot has introduced Lissandra, the Ice Witch with a new League of Legends champion spotlight trailer.

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Riot Games has added its voice to a number of critics of yesterday’s report claiming Dota 2 had overtaken League of Legends to become the most popular PC game in the west.

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League of Legends developer Riot Games is rolling out patch 3.5 now, which tweaks balancing and other areas of gameplay. We’ve got the full changelog here.

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Riot Games has handed out eight temporary suspensions and withdrawn all season two rewards form players found guilty of Elo-boosting – logging into other players’ accounts to help increase their ranking.

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League of Legends now regularly exceeds 5 million concurrent players globally, Riot Games has announced. The last time the developer gave us an update, in October 2012, it was topping out at 3 million concurrent users, demonstrating some healthy growth for the world’s most lucrative eSport MOBA. “Please have mercy on our servers,” Riot noted, quite humbly.

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League of Legends developer Riot Games is getting ready to release its localised Italian build, and to celebrate, will offer all Italian players a free Gladiator Draven skin.

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League of Legends is now available to try on Mac thanks to the open beta. You can sign up and download it here. Meanwhile, its PC counterpart has been updated with various fixes, smart pings and changes to some Champions. Patch notes can be found on PCgamesN. Videos of the Mac version and the patch preview are below.

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League of Legends developer Riot Games has opened an Australian office. Riot Games Sydney will house teams involved with marketing, eSports and community, and will apparently “craft unique experiences on the web and on the ground to support the growing League of Legends community in the Oceania region”. Riot Games Sydney is currently looking to hire a community manager and eSports co-ordinator. League of Legends is frequently described as the biggest game in the world and fronts the largest prize pools of any single title’s competitive league.

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League of Legends developer Riot Games has detailed its incoming 3.02 patch in a new update. The patch will reduce queue times, improve the item shop interface and introduce several bug fixes.

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League of Legends has announced a strict player behaviour policy for its public beta environment server.

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League of Legends developer Riot Games has published its long-awaited Mac client on the game’s Public Beta Environment today, giving players the chance to help the studio iron out bugs ahead of the full Mac open beta.

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Riots Games has swung the banhammer once again. Two more pro players have been thrown from League of Legends due to repeated reports of “offensive language, verbal abuse, and negative attitude.”

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League of Legends Season 3 will abandon the single-ladder system of previous years to focus on leagues, providing a greater sense of progression than when you were ranked 8,457,655th behind people who live in a mansion playing MOBAs for a living.

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League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced details of its third championship season, marking the start of another serious eSports push for the immensely popular MOBA title.

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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 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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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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