League of Legends will put $US5 million up for grabs this summer and fall in its second annual world championship series, pitting the winners of six regional championships against one another at the University of Southern California’s Galen centre on Oct. 13.
The 2012 ChinaJoy Cosplay extravaganza was especially extravagant in this case, as an entire stage is decked out with League of Legends cosplayers.
A small percentage of League of Legends players have been using an exploit that lets them cast powerful spells one right after another. The exploit let players add more points to the game’s Mastery system that would normally be allowed. But LoL developer Riot Games says such tactics are “bull****” and made moves to fix the loophole that made the cheat possible as soon as they heard about it.
We all have our gaming blindspots. Genres or series we don’t know as much, or play as much, as we would maybe like to. Even those of us paid to be around them all day can’t play everything. For years I’ve been content to let one of my biggest – DotA games – slide. I play more than enough games as it is, I’d say, if I ever needed an excuse.
When League of Legends characters aren’t flinging crackling balls of energy at one another on the battlefield you’ll probably find them working on their bartending licence. Those energy balls can also be turned into a lovely looking drink, proved by the images up top — taken from Nimhain’s blog AlcoLol.
I guess Koreans are finally starting to get sick of StarCraft II and Fifa Online 2, because League of Legends (LoL) has made its way to the top spot in e-sports tournaments, replacing StarCraft II. Professional broadcasters as well as sponsors are now supporting LoL, which may be an effort to improve stagnating expansion of e-sports.