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League of Legends Season 3: Taking the ‘e’ out of e-sports

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 29, 2013
4 min

Coming out of a World Tournament that elevated e-sports' popularity into the big leagues, Riot Games is planning to take League of Legends mainstream by erasing the distinctions between sports and e-sports.

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4 min

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League of Legends summons a Mac client

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 24, 2013
1 min

A Mac client for the popular free-to-play game is available in a public beta environment.

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1 min

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Arktos Entertainment acquires majority stake in game studio Hammerpoint Interactive (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 17, 2012
2 min

Arktos is on the acquisition path, adding a second major investment in a year.

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‘Toxic’ League of Legends player responds to his 1-year ban

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 5, 2012
2 min

League of Legends developer Riot pummeled a top player with a 12-month ban.

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How big is League of Legends? 12M daily users play for 1B hours each month, and 75 die every second (infographic)

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 12, 2012
1 min

Publisher Riot Games released an infographic to GamesBeat with some very specific factoids that illustrate just how large of an audience plays its League of Legends.

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1 min

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Allegations of cheating surface in $2M League of Legends playoffs

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 7, 2012
1 min

A team gets caught allegedly cheating in the $2M League of Legends playoffs

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1 min

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The DeanBeat: Raptr’s gamer data shows that building real communities pays off in profits (it’s the community, stupid)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 4, 2012
4 min

Doing good by the community yields profits, so say the numbers from Raptr's social network for gamers.

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4 min

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Riot Games’s path to blockbuster expansion: League of Legends eSport tournaments

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 6, 2012
2 min

Riot Games hopes to turn its hit game League of Legends into a household name by dramatically expanding a professional-gaming league that rewards players with big prizes and recognition.

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2 min

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IGDA chief Gordon Bellamy joins Tencent

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 30, 2012
1 min

Gordon Bellamy resigns from the largest game developer association, the IGDA, for a position with China's Tencent.

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China’s Tencent marches to the West in search of kick-ass games (interviews)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 19, 2012
15 min

GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi interviews Tencent's David Wallerstein about its approach to games in China and its investments in Western game developers.

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15 min

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