Tag Archives: Riot Games

Zoe Hawkins

Richest League of Legends Players

April 29, 2013 at 10:30 am | 38 Comments

Alright, we get it - gaming is officially a career option. Your mother was wrong when she said playing video games were a waste of time. Fine, but how good a career choice is it?


Yolanda Green

Scrap that! League of Legends still kicks Dota 2’s ass

April 11, 2013 at 12:00 pm | 26 Comments

Yesterday we reported that Dota 2 has surpassed League of Legends as the most played PC game in the West (US and Europe), according to a report by DFC Intelligence. As it turns out the report was completely wrong.


Yolanda Green

Riot takes action against illegal account boosting in League of Legends

March 20, 2013 at 3:00 pm | 10 Comments

Elo-boosting has become a trend in the League of Legends community world-wide; higher ranking players boosting lower ranked players or selling accounts. In other words: cheating the system. Elo-boosting however is illegal and Riot Games has started taking action against it, starting with the punishment of eight pro players.


Yolanda Green

Local gamer turned international shoutcaster

February 21, 2013 at 2:30 pm | 9 Comments

Trevor “qu1ksh0t” Henry is well known in the old school Call of Duty 4 community in South Africa. Having been a driving force behind one of our oldest clans, Big Fat B*stards and a great Call of Duty 4 talent, Henry has left an imprint here and will now do so on the international scene as a League of Legends shoutcaster for Riot Games, creators of the game.


Yolanda Green

Two toxic pro-gamers permabanned from League of Legends

January 22, 2013 at 3:00 pm | 1 Comment

I’ll be honest here; I was really struggling to find a nicer way to report on this incident and to use better words. Because all I wanted to do was just say it like it is. I decided that it might not be the wisest thing to do, so I’m just going to tell you what happened. Riot has banned two more pro-games for misbehaving, all the details on the click through.


Darryn Bonthuys

League of Legends has some ridiculously high numbers

October 12, 2012 at 9:00 am | 21 Comments

Whenever I check my news feeds lately, League of Legends is there, like a persistent boil gained from a Vietnamese massage parlour visit. The game is popular. Like really, really, popular. So how many people are actually playing it on a regular basis then?


Yolanda Green

No honor for League of Legends cheaters!

October 11, 2012 at 12:45 pm | 15 Comments

So, there’s been this whole debacle with some teams accused of cheating at the League of legends World Playoffs and Riot Games has come to a conclusion after a very extensive investigation. Korean team Azubu Frost (AzF) was found guilty and fined $30, 000 (20 percent of their winnings). Without using my nonexistent math skills of win, I’d say they won a crap-load of cash and won’t [really] be missing the 30k.


Yolanda Green

Be honourable in League of Legends

October 3, 2012 at 2:00 pm | 27 Comments

So having played League of Legends a couple of times I haven’t really experienced the community as a hostile one, certainly not as much as the DotA community. However, Riot Games want to encourage players to behave in order to receive rewards, because we lurve rewards.


Karl Thomson

[Editorial] In Defense of IceFrog And Dota 2: A Rebuttal To The ‘Valve Employee’ Blog

October 19, 2010 at 3:22 am | 23 Comments

[This is a personal editorial and does not necessarily reflect the views and/or opinions of Lazygamer or its editors] With all the hubbub surrounding the Dota 2 announcement, this blog post (which you should read) popped up out of nowhere which was claimed to be written by an anonymous Valve employee. Titled “The Truth About IceFrog”, he goes on to state how IceFrog is terrible to work with and actually tried to shop Dota to the creators of Heroes of Newerth and League of Legends before he started working for Valve. Some commenter chimed in corroborating the blogger’s statements, adding he actually tried to pitch it to Blizzard themselves, who politely sent him away. It’s all very interesting. The important question to ask is whether any of this matters and the short answer is resounding “no”. It’s completely inconsequential, to be honest. Read on to find out why.