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Riot Games has announced that it has raised £4.1million ($5.4million) from several of its games to provide financial aid to humanitarian organisations that are working to assist victims of the Ukraine conflict.Between March 5 and March 12, Riot Games collected all proceeds from battle pass sales in Valorant, Legends Of Runeterra, Teamfight Tactics, and Wild Rift. The profits were set aside to be donated to humanitarian organisations in Ukraine amid the ongoing invasion by Russian forces.This also included profits from the Bee skin line released for League Of Legends.

Riot Games has revealed details about the upcoming patch 12.6 for Teamfight Tactics – check out the notes below.Patch 12.6 is currently scheduled for release March 30 and will reduce attack damage across the board in Teamfight Tactics.The patch also makes changes to the amount of time Teamfight Tactics players will have to choose augments while damage caused by both Electrocharge and Luden’s Echo will now scale up based on the current stage.You can read the full 12.6 patch notes for Teamfight Tactics below:Combat Recap Interface ChangesAugmentsTraitsAttack Damage ReductionUnits: Tier 1Units: Tier 2Units: Tier 3Units: Tier 4Units: Tier 5ItemsAugmentsTraitsUnits: Tier 1Units: Tier 2Units: Tier 3Units: Tier 4ReinforcementsPlayer DamageTraits In other news, Bungie has revealed that the recent wave of Destiny 2 video takedowns were “fraudulent”.

Riot Games has released an update for Valorant that includes changes to Deathmatch and CPU-bound performance.Patch 4.03 is available now and includes changes to one of Valorant’s Agents: Brimstone. Primarily, Brimstone’s ultimate has been improved and his Orbital Strike calls down three large lasers from the sky that will now better deny information. According to the patch notes:Valorant’s Deathmatch mode has also received some changes.

Riot Games has addressed issues surrounding toxicity within Valorant and its chat systems, outlining what it’s already done and what’s still to come.In a blog shared today, Riot Games has shared its thoughts on abuse and toxicity within Valorant.“While we can never remove the bad conduct itself from individuals, we can work to deter behavior such as insults, threats, harassment, or offensive language through our game systems,” explained the blog, whilst adding that there’s also room to “encourage “pro-social” behaviour”.Outlining what the studio already does to combat toxicity, the blog states that Riot currently uses player feedback to identify when some individuals are deemed particularly toxic, so it can punish them faster. It also touches on the game’s recently-added muted words list, which aims to let players choose which words and phrases they do not want to see or hear in the game.On the topic of punishments, Riot says it has issued 400,000 voice chat and text bans and 40,000 bans in January alone.Looking ahead, Riot shared its plans to expand its efforts to tackle toxicity in voice chat, on which it said the following:When a player experiences toxicity, especially in voice comms, we know how incredibly frustrating it is and how helpless it makes us feel both during the game, as well as post game. Not only does it undermine all the good in Valorant, it can have lasting damage to our players and community overall.

Riot Games has revealed its plans for the Valorant Yoru rework as part of the Episode 4 Act 2 update.In a new blog post from Valorant producer John Gosicki and game designer Ryan Cousart, both developers discussed the Yoru rework for Episode 4 Act 2, breaking down the character’s skills and how the changes will impact the game.“Our time as of writing this is focused on bringing these changes to life—these always take quite a bit of time!” the post reads. “The loop of creating art to match gameplay, playtest, and iterate based on feedback always takes a bit of time, but ultimately, it’s what leads to Valorant’s consistent, tactical gameplay.”To start off, the developers touched on Fakeout, Yoru’s ability that currently allows him to directionally mimic the sound of his own footsteps, therefore tricking enemies.

League Of Legends patch 12.4 notes have been revealed, confirming which Champions will be buffed and nerfed next.Phlox, a Riot Games designer who works on the popular MOBA game, took to Twitter to share a teaser of what players can expect when the upcoming 12.4 update drops on February 16.First up are Champion changes, and in this case, it looks like a great number of them will be getting buffed when the next patch releases. These Champions include Aatrox, Illaoi, Amumu, Ashe, Lucian, Kalista, Xayah, Sett, Rumble, Neeko, and Nami – whose E ability will be getting a nerf revert.As for Champion nerfs, Zeri, Mundo Qiyana, Veigar, Blitzcrank, Nunu & Willump, and Master Yi fall under this category.

Valorant esports head for Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA), has outlined Riot Games‘ approach to cultivating competition in its free-to-play shooter.Speaking to NME, Ringland said there would be “pretty significant changes” coming to Valorant‘s competitive environment in 2022.Part of these changes include the introduction of Valorant Regional Circuits (VRCs) and Valorant Regional Leagues (VRLs), which Ringland explained:“Within those circuits are many different amateur events that cater to many different sorts of people – social people, players that just want to be professional, they can all find something cool to participate in that. They exist on a regional level – we have one in France, one in Turkey, one in Nina et cetera.

Valorant, and developer Riot Games has outlined the changes coming to the competitive shooter.A few changes and updates have been announced as part of update 4.02 for Valorant, so a breakdown of the completed list of the patch notes can be found below.Multiple performance updates have arrived in 4.02, including better latency for windowed fullscreen mode, in an effort to match it up with when fullscreen is being used exclusively. The notes add that “these improvements should play well with in-game overlays, however, having another program’s window on top of your gameplay window will negate these benefits.”There are also a handful of performance updates for Valorant as well, including an AFK (away from keyboard) detection buff, better detections for non-participatory behaviour done whilst in-game, and agent-select reporting.

League of Legends developer Riot Games has issued an apology after hitting a Ukrainian comic creator with takedown requests over a comic with a similar title to its Netflix animated series, Arcane.Creator Kutty Sark had been publishing the comic Arcane Flames, a gothic fantasy series, on webcomic site Tapas.io since 2019. However, on January 28, Sark revealed that their TeePublic store had removed a t-shirt featuring the art of their original character Al’vis following a DMCA Takedown Notice from Riot, “claiming that said design is their intellectual property”.Riot Games claimed that my original artwork is theirintellectual property.I'm just some girl from Ukraine and have no voice if such a big company as Riot Games claims that my work belongs to them, even if all facts prove them wrong.The only thing I can do is to speak here.

Riot Games have announced that the 4.01 patch for Valorant will go live later today (January 19) allowing players to curate their own muted word list.As it stands, Valorant has an AI that filters out unsavoury language from the game but this new addition will allow players to curate which words they don’t want to see in-game.“We admit that some players are often smarter than our automated bad word detection system and continually find creative ways to type things we don’t want to in chat.”“This is why we need your help to make our detections better! Help us, help you,” reads the announcement before explaining how the use of numbers and punctuation in the place of letters is allowing players to bypass the current setup.“We’re hoping that we can leverage the lists that you and others create to make the chat less toxic by comparing them across regions, and using the data we collect to improve our own detections of bad words. Thanks in advance for all that are willing to lend a hand.

Arcane, Netflix has shared a video of singer and streamer Chrissy Costanza teaching a senior citizen how to play League Of Legends.In the wholesome video, Costanza helps senior citizen Glenn get to grips with Riot Games title League Of Legends, the game that one of Netflix’s latest shows – Arcane – is based on.As she teaches Glenn to play Jinx, Costanza breaks down the intricacies of the multiplayer strategy game for Glenn, explaining how to kill minions and avoid taking damage from the powerful towers.Impressively, Glenn starts picking up several League Of Legends mechanics quickly, even offering his own articulate analogy on pushing to damage a tower. “It’s like a football game and my minions are my offensive line and I’m the

Project L, set in the same world as League Of Legends, has received a gameplay update video.Developer Riot Games shared the video yesterday (November 20), where lead developers Tom and Tony Cannon went into detail about the team’s direction with the game.Whilst it is “still too far out to commit to a release date,” the developers wanted to bring fans up to speed on the progress of Project L.

League of Legends players are reporting a myriad of balancing issues as the game enters the 2022 preseason.A series of posts on Reddit, first spotted by The Loadout, are showing players absolutely dominating games with a combination of new items and reworked features. The new assassin item seems balanced on noc from leagueoflegends User Drachir133 posted his gameplay clip of him testing some of the new weapons, and the community are worried certain changes have been implemented too heavily.

Riot Games says it is removing four-stacks (groups of four players) from the competitive queue in Valorant, due to ongoing “toxicity reports”.Essentially this means that groups squadding up and communicating as a team of four cannot go into competitive five player games. According to recent patch notes post, this has been done for multiple reasons:“Alongside the five-stack changes, we are also removing four-stacks from the competitive queue,” read the post.

Riot Forge – who is responsible for publishing games set in the League Of Legends universe – has announced a livestreamed Riot Forge Showcase with Nintendo Switch stream, which is set for later today (November 16). Here’s how – and where – you can watch the Riot Forge showcase stream.The Riot Forge Showcase with Nintendo Switch stream will be livestreamed at 4PM GMT / 5PM CET / 8AM PST on November 16.When it goes live, fans can watch the stream over at either the official Riot Games Twitch account, or the YouTube account for Riot Forge.

Arcane – a Netflix show set in the League Of Legends universe – has caused a very sudden uptick in fans playing the starring characters in League Of Legends.Since Arcane launched – and knocked Squid Game off the platform’s top spot in 37 countries – fans have rushed to play the show’s stars in League Of Legends.This is visible via the pick rate metrics for each champion – a statistic that shows the percentage of League Of Legends games that a champion is played.According to analytics site LoLalytics, Jayce has received the most dramatic spike in pick rate, soaring from a tiny pick rate of 3.57 per cent on November 5 to a whopping 11.85 per cent on November 9.

Riot Forge has announced HexTech Mayhem: A League Of Legends Story, which will take the world of League Of Legends into a 2D rhythm runner-setting.Announced today (November 9), Hextech Mayhem: A League Of Legends Story is a rhythm runner by Choice Provisions, which is behind the Bit.Trip series of games in the same genre.Set in the League Of Legends universe, players will control Ziggs – an existing champion in League – as he causes chaos across Piltover, which is where Riot‘s Netflix show Arcane is set.A press release has shared more news on what to expect from the game:“Players must perform bomb-jumps and bomb-attacks to the beat of a toe-tapping soundtrack, to avoid obstacles, disarm enemies, and light fuses for satisfying and explosive

Riot is celebrating the launch of the League Of Legends Netflix series Arcane with an Among Us crossover.Riot is running several crossovers with all of its games to celebrate the Netflix show Arcane, which is based on the world of League Of Legends. However, the latest crossover comes from a separate developer and will occur in the game Among Us.The Progress Days event is named after a holiday in the show’s town of Piltover.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and League Of Legends broke viewership records over the weekend, with esports tournaments for each game attracting millions of viewers.Last weekend (November 6 – November 7) was an action-packed two days for esports fans. While Saturday marked the League Of Legends World Championship finals, it was quickly followed up by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive‘s Major Championship final on Sunday.The League Of Legends finals – in which China’s EDward Gaming beat Korea’s Damwon Gaming in a dramatic five-game series – attracted over 4million peak viewers at one point.

League Of Legends animated show, Arcane.Today (November 1), the social media platform announced its first-ever partnership with Riot Games ahead of the release of its new animated Netflix show, Arcane. Reddit revealed that it’s worked with Riot to create League-specific characters for its avatar feature to promote the series.Following the release, Reddit will make more League of Legends character avatar creations available on a weekly basis, as they appear on the show.Starting off, Vi and Jinx will be available starting today to all Redditors globally.

Riot Games has revealed details of Episode 3, Act 3 Battlepass for Valorant as well as new character Chamber.Running for ten weeks from November 2, Episode 3, Act 3 Battlepass will cost 1000VP and give players access to various weapon skins, gun buddy’s and sprays. There will also be multiple free items in the free tier.Sean Marino, Associate Art Director said: “With this Battlepass, we wanted to celebrate the end-of-year traditions like Halloween, the New Year, and the winter holidays.

Riot Games has announced that the upcoming agent for Valorant has been pushed back two weeks behind the Episode 3 Act III update. Agents tend to drop at the start of a new act, so character producer John Goscicki took to a Valorant blog post to break the news: “Episode 3 Act III kicks off soon, and we know because of our past cadence that you’ve come to expect new Agents to drop with the start of a new Act.

World Of Warcraft game designer, Chris Kaleiki, has announced that he has started his own studio called Notorious Studios.Earlier this week (October 25), Chris Kaleiki took to Twitter to share the news that he has created his own game studio Notorious Studios – established with other former developers of World Of Warcraft – focused on building the next role-playing game.“Deciding to leave Blizzard was one of the hardest decisions of my life, ” Kaleiki said on his Twitter thread. “When looking at what to do next, I knew I wanted to do something with a smaller team (for a change) and join a team with similar cultural values that I was raised on at Blizzard.

Riot Games is walking back its decision to get rid of /all chat in League of Legends – instead trialling the removal on a region-by-region basis.The company recently announced it would remove /all chat from League of Legends due to increased incidents of verbal abuse. But since the announcement, the response has been mixed.“Starting this patch, /all chat will be disabled in matchmade queues in a few regions,” Riot confirmed in a patch update.

Riot Games has shared that cheating in Valorant seems to be at the lowest point it’s ever been.As spotted by The Loadout, a new Valorant blog has updated fans on the state of cheating within the competitive shooter.Matt “K3o” Paoletti shared the report on behalf of Valorant‘s anti-cheat team and revealed that “the number of report rates for cheating are trending downward, and are at the lowest they’ve ever been”.“We’ve invested a great deal of time, both through operational and technical advancements, to make sure that cheating is at a sustainably low level, and most importantly, that cheating is never a viable way to long term competitive success in Valorant.”Describing the team’s efforts in the “arms race” against cheating, Paoletti

Riot Games has announced today (October 12) that the /All chat function in League Of Legends is being disabled due to “verbal abuse”.The news comes from an official League Of Legends blog post, which says that patch 11.21 will bring with it the disabling of /All chat in matchmade queues. Riot Games has said that “the tradeoff is worth it to cut down on the growing negativity /All chat has been creating in your games.”Team chat, end of game chat, and enemies hearing and seeing emotes will still be in League Of Legends, according to Riot.The 11.21 patch will arrive in League Of Legends on October 20, just over a week after this announcement.

League Of Legends team and the head coach and all support staff.In a video posted today (October 11), Rodriguez has announced that G2 “has decided to bench and look to trade Wunder, Miky, Rekkles, GrabbZ and Nelson; and look to also replace the rest of the support staff”.After a disappointing year, these changes will leave G2 looking to replace three out of five members on its League Of Legends team as well as its head coach and broader support staff.Update on G2 LoL Roster pic.twitter.com/cjkkPxkmA1— CarlosR ocelote (@CarlosR) October 11, 2021The video announcement has proved controversial, with head coach Fabian ‘GrabbZ’ Lohmann seemingly expressing frustration with the style of the announcement by saying, “4 years and a handheld video

League Of Legends player has been banned from the Worlds 2021 tournament for leaking details of his team’s strategy, allegedly “for the purposes of wagering”.While competing at Worlds – the highest-level League Of Legends competition in the world – Beyond Gaming’s mid-laner Chien “Maoan” Mao-An was handed a suspension from the tournament.

League Of Legends is currently being tested on the PBE (Public Beta Environment), revealing a lineup of Halloween skins and balance passes.Now that the PBE is hosting the changes set for the next League Of Legends patch (detailed by Surrender At 20, spotted by PCGamesN), fans can see what will change in patch 11.20.To celebrate Halloween, League Of Legends is adding six new skins in the Bewitching line for Fiora, Poppy, Yuumi, Syndra, Nami, and a prestige version of Bewitching Morgana.In terms of balance changes, 11.20 aims to remove Amumu from his current spot at the top.

League Of Legends patch, 11.20, has revealed several details regarding upcoming nerfs and changes.In a tweet from a Riot dev, details about patch 11.20 were previewed, as the game reverts to a more “normal” build after the League Of Legends World Championship final on October 5. The tweet specifies this, saying that “now that Worlds is locked in, we’re back to a more normal patch.

NME, the team at Riot Games Music has shared more on how the return of League Of Legends heavy metal band Pentakill came about, as well as what fans can expect next from Riot.As Pentakill’s latest album, Lost Chapter, released earlier in the month, NME spoke to the head of Riot Games Music, Toa Dunn and Beckett Snedeker-Short, who works as producer and associate creative lead at Riot Games – Riot Music Group.Talking about the return of Pentakill, which blossomed from League Of Legends skins to an all-out metal band through a “passion project” in 2014, Dunn explained what brought the heavy metal band back this year:“The band members had been talking about it for a while and they started exploring what this album could be about.

Riot Games has shared a development blog discussing how the Behavioral Systems Team is approaching the problem of AFK (away from keyboard) players in League Of Legends.Posted yesterday (September 17), a new blog titled ‘Tackling AFKs‘ explains how – and why – Riot is reworking and improving punishments for AFK players.An AFK player is someone who – either voluntarily or otherwise – leaves an ongoing League Of Legends match, leaving their team mates to fight at a 4v5 disadvantage.

League Of Legends players, as a feature of the skin actively gives away when Tryndamere’s invincibility is coming to an end.As spotted by Dexerto, League Of Legends players are questioning whether Tryndamere’s latest skin actually puts users at a disadvantage. While part of correctly playing against Tryndamere is estimating when his ultimate – total immunity to death – will run out, Nightbringer Tryndamere is circled by a red timer that indicates exactly when his invincibility expires.It’s an issue that has been taken up by fans and pro players alike.

Valorant has announced a collaboration with EDM producer Zedd, as they will be working together on a line of skins and accompanying music.Announcing the collaboration via a keynote speech (which is embedded below), Zedd introduced SPECTRUM as “a collection of weaponised colour and sound that elevates the way you experience the game, taking you from a player to a performer”.The SPECTRUM bundle includes skins for the Phantom, Guardian, Bulldog and Classic weapons, as well as for the knife melee weapon. Each skin has three variant colours and is upgradable.

Riot Games has shared the abilities and release date for Vex, who will join League Of Legends as the newest Yordle champion later this month.Designed to be played as a mage in the mid lane, Vex has a kit that heavily punishes mobile characters with extra damage whenever they use a dash. In combination with her ultimate, which resets upon quickly killing a targeted champion, enemy teams will find Vex difficult to move away from.Fans can expect Vex to launch on September 23, during patch 11.19.

Windows 11’s core features is its Trusted Platform Module (TPM) which will make cheating in games like Valorant that much harder, since bans can apply to the computer and just not the offending account.Released on October 5, Windows 11 (which is targeting gamers) will use a TPM to protect the data used to authenticate your PC. TPMs can also be used to store passwords, allow disk encryption and maintain platform integrity.