The country's biggest gaming competition is growing its online viewership at a startling pace.
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If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Publisher Riot Games released an infographic to GamesBeat with some very specific factoids that illustrate just how large of an audience plays its League of Legends.
A team gets caught allegedly cheating in the $2M League of Legends playoffs
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Perfect World is making its move into the Western online gaming markets.
Riot Games hopes to turn its hit game League of Legends into a household name by dramatically expanding a professional-gaming league that rewards players with big prizes and recognition.
Missed the latest news on GamesBeat? Here's a list of the stories we ran over the past week.
What do you do if you’re playing League of Legends, the free real-time strategy game with over 100 champions that gamers must employ to conquer their opponents, and you can’t keep track of each hero’s detailed strengths and weaknesses?
If …
GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi interviews Tencent's David Wallerstein about its approach to games in China and its investments in Western game developers.
Our interview with CCP Games chief marketing officer David Reid details the free-to-play business model of its upcoming console shooter Dust 514, its tie-ins with the massively multiplayer PC title Eve Online, and the challenges faced in balancing and marketing another shooter for a console audience.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced Guardians of Middle-earth, a multiplayer online battle arena game, for Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network.
China has one of the most dynamic and unique game markets in the world. Rising from virtual non-existence a decade ago, and surviving a stage when every disk was pirated, the nation has become a force to be reckoned with …
PAX Prime is sold out, huh? While that is very sad for a lot of us, we have some alternative conventions that may fill that social void in your schedule.
Riot Games announced the details for the Season 2 World Championships Region and World Finals for League of Legends, including a $3 million prize pool for the entire event.
The second season of professional, competitive play for the popular free-to-play …
Riot Games is adding a spectator mode to the popular free-to-play title League of Legends with its next patch.
The new mode will allow players to move their own camera around a match, as well as pause, rewind, slow down, …
The numbers are in from this month’s IGN Pro League (IPL) gaming competition, and they’re record-breakers of a kind. IGN boasts of drawing 346,000 streaming spectators at the tournament’s peak and more than 3 million unique viewers over all three …
