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League Of Legends caster Clayton ‘CaptainFlowers’ Raines has announced that he has chosen not to attend Worlds 2021, explaining that he needs the time to recharge and focus on his mental health.Earlier today (September 6), Raines used Twitter to share that he has made the decision to step back from Worlds 2021 – the biggest League Of Legends tournament held every year – due to issues he has been struggling with for several years.In a longer post, Raines clarified that Riot “wanted me on the

Riot Games has shared a look at upcoming League Of Legends champion Vex, a gloomy Yordle that uses a literal shadow to take down enemiesThe trailer for Vex was released today (September 2) and shows the miserable champion using a shadowy monster – a personality called Shadow – to kill off some of the cheerier champions across the rift.From a first look, her standard abilities include a blast of shadows that splashes outward upon hitting a champion, a fear-based CC skill, and AOE based damage.

Riot Games will host a virtual concert for Pentakill – a heavy metal band made up of champions from League Of Legends – ahead of their upcoming album Lost Chapter.The concert – which Riot Games is running in partnership with Wave – will take place at 9 PM BST on September 8. Fans can attend the concert at Wave.Watch and, following the event, the upcoming Pentakill album Lost Chapter will release directly afterwards.

Valorant is getting a new map and Battlepass for Episode 3, Act 2, launching this month.The new map, titled Fracture, is due for release on September 8.

League Of Legends patch 11.18 on the Public Beta Environment (PBE), allowing fans to see what will arrive in an update referred to as “part one” of the Worlds patch.As detailed by Surrenderat20, the upcoming patch will bring an updated line of Pentakill skills to coincide with their Lost Chapter album that releases this month.This means an all-new Pentakill skin for Viego, with new Lost Chapter skins for Kayle, Mordekaiser, Olaf, Sona, Karthus and Yorick – all of whom already have older

Riot Games has shared a preview for patch 11.18 for League Of Legends, which will be the first half of an update that sets the stage for Worlds.Jeevun Sidhu, Lead Game Designer for League Of Legends, has shared a first look at what patch 11.18 will change in the game. This patch is significant to fans, as it will largely decide what sort of shape the meta of Worlds 2021 takes.11.18 Patch Preview is here!Reminder: this is effectively part 1 of our Worlds patches (11.19 will finish it off).

Players – will be set in the League Of Legends Championship Series (LCS) and created by the pair behind American Vandal.Announced on Friday (August 27), Players will be set in a fictionalised version of the LCS – North America’s League Of Legends esports scene – and will follow a fictional League team as they try and win their first LCS title after years of missing out.

Riot Games is about to launch Riot Mobile – a new Discord-like app which allows you to find and chat with all your Valorant and League of Legends pals.The new app is a replacement for League+ – the mobile companion app for League of Legends.

Riot Games has announced a release date for a new album from Pentakill, a virtual band made up of characters from League Of Legends.With the tagline “Legends have returned”, Riot Games has shared that an all-new Pentakill album called Lost Chapter will be released on November 8, 2021.

League of Legends patch 11.17 brings balance to some of your favourite legends and introduces the cool new Crime City and Phoenix skins.After extensive testing, League of Legends patch 11.16 is going live. That means Riot Games is now concentrating on patch 11.17 – and it brings a ton of balancing changes.Amumu is the big focus here – tweaking his abilities to make him more viable at higher matchmaking.

Riot Games is purposefully delaying its company’s sexual harassment investigation.In July, it was reported that California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) had spent two years investigating reports of abuse and harassment at Activision Blizzard.It was also recently confirmed that DFEH is now looking into the work culture at League Of Legends developer, Riot Games after a DFEH litigation notice was spotted regarding harassment and abuse at the company, dating back to 2018.The

League Of Legends player has been arrested in China after an off-duty policeman spotted him on the same server in an internet café.As reported by a Chinese news outlet, police officer Yihao Zhang arrested a fellow Ionia Server player at an internet café after the suspect’s League player rank was announced over the speakers in an automated announcement.When the suspect logged on to his League account it triggered an automated response from the café speakers, alerting fellow players that a

Riot Games has revealed more on what fans can expect from League Of Legends‘ Preseason 2022, with upcoming changes ranging from objective bounties to all-new Mythic items.Toward the end of every year, League Of Legends enters the Preseason – an exciting time for Riot Games to make sweeping changes to the game without any risk of disrupting the professional scene.For Preseason 2022, Riot is focusing on going back to strengthen a few of the bigger changes from previous years.

League Of Legends US Championships have been moved and fan tickets revoked due to a rise in COVID-19 cases.The event was supposed to take place in New Jersey’s Prudential Centre, but has since been moved to the LCS Arena in Los Angeles with all ticket holders being refunded.

Riot Games to discuss the title-spanning Sentinels Of Light event, touching on how the event was created and if fans can expect similar events in the future.For League Of Legends in particular, the Sentinels Of Light event added a branching visual novel, pitting players against Viego as he tries to take over the world.For fans of last year’s Spirit Blossom event – which also came in the form of an in-client visual novel – Sentinels Of Light may have looked familiar.

Riot Games is being sued by the state of California for gender discrimination, sexual harassment and pay decisions, according to a recently discovered document. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) litigation notice was spotted by a Reddit user (thanks, PC Gamer), and the class case is “not subject to arbitration.

League Of Legends community is split on the state of Akshan, the newest champion that’s already brought a bizarre “helicopter” bug onto the rift with him.After a long tease and an appearance in the latest League Of Legends event – Sentinels Of Light – Akshan is finally playable as a champion.As well as being highly mobile, Akshan’s kit includes the ability to camouflage, revive team mates, swing from terrain and deal percentage HP damage with his ult.

League Of Legends has brought back the Your Shop feature, however, a major bug is causing players to only receive one discounted skin offer.Update: a post from Riot Support FR claims: “If you only see one skin available in your Custom Store, fear not, we’re working on it to fix it.

Riot Games has revealed the many abilities of Akshan, the next champion to join the League Of Legends roster in patch 11.15.In an abilities rundown posted earlier in the week, Riot Games has shared details on what the upcoming marksman will be capable of.Designed as “a new kind of assassin”, Akshan will need players to rely on a grappling hook and slippery stealth skills to succeed in bursting down enemies.As mentioned in his champion insight, the team behind Akshan “wanted to craft an

Sentinels Of Light event launched yesterday (June 8) in League Of Legends alongside new lore-themed skins, a visual novel and a game mode called Ultimate Spellbook.The summer event currently runs across all other Riot games – including Valorant and Legends Of Runeterra – but brings some extra content to League Of Legends.Fans of the PC game will enjoy an intricate new visual novel called Rise Of The Sentinels, which is set at the height of League‘s year-long ‘Ruination’ storyline.

Hytale has been delayed until 2023, Hypixel Studios has announced.In a summer development update, Hypixel Studios  explained that it had become “increasingly apparent is that we have several more years of work ahead of us before Hytale is ready to launch.”This update comes due to the increased scope of Hytale, as the post explains: “Some parts of the game have undergone radical change, while in other areas we’ve expanded on established groundwork.”Hypixel Studios go on to that this decision is

PUBG leaker, Riot is testing a Valorant battle royale mode with players in China.The rumour arrived courtesy of PlayerIGN who has a history of reliably leaking PUBG information.

Mortal Kombat 11 developer NetherRealm Studios has announced that it will no longer develop DLC for the game and will focus on its next unannounced project. READ MORE: ‘Halo Infinite’ developer 343 industries is right – gaming shouldn’t feel like “a second job”The announcement was made on the Mortal Kombat Twitter account, which read: “NetherRealm is now focusing on its next project and after more than two years of supporting Mortal Kombat 11, DLC for the game, including characters, has come to

Riot Games has revealed a trailer for Episode 3, Act 1 of its competitive first-person shooter Valorant.The brand new ‘Kick Off’ trailer for Episode 3 has gone live, featuring clips from creators such as Dopatwo, Glam, Liquid Enigma, Bolixie, and diyyo.You can watch the brand new trailer below:Episode 3 will feature a wealth of changes to agents and weapons, as well as a whole host of performance updates and bug fixes.All weapons have also had their walking inaccuracy stat increased, meaning it

Riot Games has revealed all the new additions coming to Valorant in Episode 3, Act 1 on June 22, including new agent KAY/O.Valorant’s latest episode is titled “Reflection”. It will include a battle pass with new weapon skins, gun buddies, cards, spray, and titles.

Riot Games has released a new teaser for a potential new agent for its tactical shooter game Valorant.The short clip features a droid being activated by an unseen force, before tilting down to a robotic head lighting up.

Riot Games developers have announced Palia, an MMO that aims to introduce a little more peace into the genre.Palia is taking a different approach to the MMO format – instead of violently grinding for loot, developers Aidan Karabaich and Anthony Leung hope that you’ll find joy in the lighter side of MMO gameplay.With Palia, Singularity 6 is encouraging players to help each other and spend time with friends.

Valorant is coming to mobile platforms.The news coincides with the PC game’s one-year anniversary, which it’s celebrating for the whole month of June with Valorant Y1 events.In a Polygon interview, executive producer Anna Donlon explained that Valorant Mobile will deliver a similar experience for players of the PC version, but it is nevertheless a “unique-to-mobile experience”.While details were light, Donlon confirmed that there will not be any cross-play functionality and that Valorant Mobile

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professional player Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek has sung Valorant developer Riot Games praises on the first anniversary of the game’s release.In recent days, Riot Games has spoken at length about the successful journey of its tactical shooter one year since its launch on June 2, 2020. The developer revealed that the currently PC-only game has an average of 14million players a month, and that there’s even a mobile version on the way.

Riot Games has announced a six-month suspension for professional Valorant player Jay “Sinatraa” Won for failing to cooperate with an ongoing sexual assault investigation.Alex Francois, the Head of Competitive Operations for Valorant Esports, shared the ruling in a new update on May 18.

Riot Games has announced a new time-limited multiplayer mode for its competitive first-person shooter Valorant.Replication, which will temporarily replace Escalation, goes live with Valorant’s 2.09 Patch which will release later today (May 11).Replication is a new game mode where players all play copies of the same agent — something that is not usually possible.Players can vote for which agent they want to play in a modified version of the usual agent selection screen.

Riot Games and Netflix have announced a fall release window for the upcoming League Of Legends animated series, Arcane.The accompanying trailer for the series, which was developed and produced by Riot in partnership with Fortiche Production, features popular League Of Legends hero Jinx and her sister Vi.

Riot Games has announced that it will begin recording voice chat in its first-person shooter, Valorant, in order to root out toxic players.Riot released its updated privacy notice and terms of service detailing the next steps the studio will take to combat toxic behaviour in its online multiplayer game.“We know disruptive behaviour using our voice chat is a concern for a lot of players, and we’re committed to addressing it more effectively,” Riot said.“In order for us to take action against

Riot Games has reportedly shut down a League of Legends fan game, after its creators said the company tried to “extort” them.Chronoshift, the fan game which had been in development for five years, was a “legacy server” that would allow players to play the 10-year-old version of League of Legends.In 2020, Riot replied to the announcement for Chronoshift and said: “Hijacking to say please don’t do this.

League of Legends cinematic universe.According to Dexerto, the publisher aims to create a cinematic universe in the same vein as Marvel.There are two primary job listings related to the plans. Riot is looking for a Global Head of Live Action Film to “help build the strategy for Riot’s Live Action Content Creation business”.The other position is a Global Head of Live Action TV.