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League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced its MOBA sensation is now peaking in excess of 5m concurrent players. PCGamersN reports Riot’s latest figure dwarfs Steam’s biggest offering, Dota 2, at just 300k concurrent players. In fact, Steam itself just recently hit 6.6m concurrent users; so the eSports hit …
Read More »League of Legends ‘Player Behaviour & Justice Team’ includes a neuroscientist and behavioural psychologist
If you spend any sort of time on the internet you’ve probably suffered at the hands of a troll. MCV knows about this all too well. But even amongst these cesspools of morons, elements of the League of Legends community have a quite brutal reputation. Which is why the developers …
Read More »The eSports Phenomenon: Living the life of a sports star
The eSports events themselves are sights to behold. Take for instance the glitzy IGN Pro League finals in Las Vegas, where gamers are celebrities and fans are tripping over themselves to get close to the stars. That particular event is one of the most interesting and coolest I have been …
Read More »When will eSports start making money?
It’s attracting an audience in the tens of millions and the attention of video game giants Valve, Riot, Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft. So why is it struggling to generate money? And why isn’t the mainstream media talking about it? Christopher Dring investigates Do you remember ShootMania at Ubisoft’s E3 press …
Read More »ESports can help games last test of time
LGC12: League of Legends user numbers competing with the likes of Modern Warfare 3 three years after release
Read More »Is free-to-play the future of gaming or just a cheap fad?
People don’t want to pay for games. That’s what MCV was told repeatedly at E3. And indeed many of this year’s high-growth or most controversial games – World of Tanks, League of Legends, CSR Racing amongst others – were absolutely free. Of course anyone that has followed this market as …
Read More »F2P market is worth £216m in UK
It may be the industry buzzword of the moment, but freemium games still have a long way to go before they take down retail. 216m will be generated in the UK by virtual goods sold in games such as FarmVille (pictured), League of Legends and World of Tanks, research firm …
Read More »League of Legends is "the most played video game in the world"
Riot Games has released an infographic claiming that its free-to-play online RPG is the most played video game in the world”. It has a total of 70m registered Summoner names, 32m active monthly users and 12m daily active users. Over 1bn game hours are logged every month. To put that …
Read More »European League of Legends hacked
'No credit card or payment information obtained', claims developer Riot Games
Read More »Planetside 2 goes free-to-play
Upcoming PC shooter Planetside 2 will adopt a free-to-play model following the long line of MMOs that did so earlier this year. The FPS MMO sequel from Sony Online Entertainment will include free-to-play in some form, but concrete details have yet to be determined, reports VG247. The developer’s studio head …
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