Riot Games’ next vista for League of Legends: College esports
Riot Games wants to take you to school. League of Legends school. The developer has a program called uLoL (University League of Legends), which...
GamesBeat 2016: Riot North America on community, uLoL and making League of Legends last forever
League of Legends launched in 2009, but the multiplayer online battle arena game has never been more popular. SuperData Research estimates that it pulled...
Riot Games investor Mitch Lasky is wary about funding VR
Mitch Lasky has scored a lot of big investments as a general partner at Benchmark: He was an early investor in Snapchat, NaturalMotion, Gaikai,...
Tencent’s reach is unmatched in the gaming market
In the new film Independence Day: Resurgence, a couple makes a video call to one another. When they hang up, the program they’re using tells...
‘The story is false’: ESPN, Riot Games deny $500M League of Legends esports TV deal
Earlier today, a story broke from esports news site PVP Live claiming that ESPN is in talks to spend $500 million for League of...
Newzoo: A billion people will know about esports by the end of 2016
Esports is outgrowing its status as a niche industry for hardcore gamers, and it’s turning into global entertainment. More than a billion people will...
League of Legends studio acquires Radiant, and Seth Killian’s fighting game is canceled (update)
Developer Riot Games announced today that it has acquired developer Radiant Entertainment. The League of Legends company now owns the studio responsible for the castle-building PC game Stonehearth and fighting game Rising Thunder.
FaceIt esports community raises $15 million to go global
Esports is a growing market, and it isn’t only about the top 1 percent of players in the world that show up for the tournaments you see on...
How League of Legends players went from hating Facebook to happily using it to find friends
Hardcore gamers don’t fully trust Facebook and they are dismissive of “Facebook games.” When they see the social network in their “real” games, they...
AMD’s graphics guru describes the march to full graphics immersion with 16K screens
When Advanced Micro Devices created its own stand-alone graphics division, Radeon Technologies Group, and crafted a new brand, Polaris, for its upcoming graphics architecture,...