Dutch investor and Tencent shareholder, Prosus NV is planning to sell even more of its $134 billion in the entertainment conglomerate's stock, causing shares of Riot Games’ owner to drop 2.5% on Tuesday afternoon.
Only two days after being removed from Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store in India, their government has officially banned 54 Chinese-owned apps, including Garena Free Fire, one of the most popular titles in the world, according to an ANI report.
In a trailer released on Saturday morning, Riot Games, in conjunction with Netflix, announced that their upcoming animated series, Arcane, based on the massively popular video game title League of Legends is set to debut on Saturday, November 6.
Tencent has introduced facial recognition software measures to prevent young gamers from playing late into the night. Their "curfew" system, which is supposed to stop minors from playing between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.
The company, which has a dominating presence in esports, reported a 65% rise in quarterly profits, once again confounding expectations against a backdrop of potentially controversial issues and a dropping share price.
Tencent aims to retain ownership of Riot Games and Epic Games, two American-based publishers Tencent has a controlling interest in, amid concerns from the US government over sharing of user data by Chinese firms.
About a month after Bjergsen announced his retirement from professional League of Legends, Doublelift announced his own retirement as well. Read more about his career and retirement here:
Among Liquid's off-season changes was the addition of Kold to the LCS coaching staff. Kold spoke with us about his time with Liquid at Worlds and how he hopes to power up the team in 2021. Read his interview here:
“When I first started playing, I was just a depressed kid in Denmark. League of Legends was just an escape…” To many of us, video games — and League of Legends, specifically — are an escape. Whether it be simply just to unwind from work, a search for an adventure, a desire for a challenge, or to forget about the hardships and pain from everyday life. From the lowest
They defied the odds and ruined so many Pick'Ems game after game, series after series, but Suning Gaming finally met their match with the Worlds favorites, DAMWON Gaming, falling 1-3 in the Finals. Suning spoke with the press after the series, see the conference here:
After six years, the LPL and LCK have finally found themselves back in a Worlds Finals match against each other, and it marks the first best of five series between the two regions of the 2020 World Championship.
Suning Gaming has defeated the giants, Top Esports, who took them down in the LPL semifinals the last time they met. They won the rematch; they knocked out the Worlds favorites. Now they meet DAMWON in the Finals. Read the press conference here:
Worlds always brings the best of the best players to one stage for the sake of entertaining the masses and crowning a king, and 2020 is no different, but SofM was far and away the most influential for a few reasons. Read about his importance here:
UPDATE 10/20: Mark "RiotScruffy" Yetter has Tweeted changes coming to League of Legends in Patch 10.22 that he claims are 'not 100% locked but pretty close. In addition, it was confirmed in another Tweet that a bug affecting Kindred's Mark of the Kindred passive would be fixed in 10.22.
After dominating performances over the past several international events, G2 Esports remains consistent, taking down Gen.G in a 3-0 sweep in the 2020 League of Legends World Championship quarterfinals. Here's what they have to say about the series and theiur next match against DAMWON:
Top Esports came into the tournament as favorites alongside DAMWON Gaming but almost made an early exit in the quarterfinals when Fnatic got a 2-0 lead over them. TES turned it around though and later spoke with the press about how they won the series and what they expect for the rest of their Worlds run. See their press conference here:
The LPL is planning to introduce a salary cap on its players next year, assigning a tier to each player based on their level of play. Their maximum salary would ascend or descend in relation to their tier. Read more on the upcoming changes and their impacts on the league here:
Tencent revealed the details for the 2020 League of Legends World Championship. On the 24th, Riot China CEO Leo Lin revealed the details of Worlds 2020 at the Tencent Global Esports Summit. Starting
US President, Donald Trump, signed an executive order banning transactions to Tencent Holdings Ltd., who own Riot Games, and part of Epic Games, Blizzard, Supercell, and others, causing a massive shakeup in the gaming and esports industry. Read more here:
Today's cartoon is about the still unclear 2020 League of Legends World Championships being held. As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is still outspread, there are many concerns about the 2020 LoL
