League of Legends vs. Heroes of the Storm

Blizzard explains why Heroes of the Storm isn't Dota for babies

Heroes of the Storm is easy to learn, and the game is lacking many of the complex aspects of titles like Dota 2 and League of Legends that can feel unwelcoming to new players.

League of Legends overhauls Honor, rewards niceness

A new champ is possibly the more eye-catching midweek League of Legends [official site] news to catch up on but I'm far…

Why League of Legends Is The World’s Greatest Game

In 2003, I was a very serious WarCraft III player. If I recall correctly, I have over 5,000 one-on-one ladder matches logged on my Battle.net account. I watched replays every day and even did some …

How League of Legends could make the internet a better place

An online game could just be the start of a happier, healthier online community

LoL Esports | Riot Games Partners With Cisco

We are proud to announce our multi-year partnership with Cisco, establishing the global technology leader as the Official Enterprise Networking Partner of League of Legends Esports.

» The Goldilocks Principle in Fantasy Strategy The Digital Antiquarian

Although I’ve played way too many games for way too many hours over the way too many years I’ve been writing these histories, it’s safe to say that I haven’t spent more time with any one game than Heroes of Might and Magic II. Partly this was down to circumstance. Heroes II showed up on the syllabus just as I was embarking on one of my periodic digressions, a long series about international communications networks and how they culminated in the World Wide Web. Without the need to write in detail about a new game every fortnight, I was freer than I usually am just to play whatever I felt like playing. And what I felt like playing at that time was Heroes II. I beat every single Heroes II scenario in my Heroes of Might and Magic Millennium Edition set, some alone, some in multiplayer mode with my wife Dorte, who became almost as obsessed as I was. I must confess that my usual rule of no more than two hours of gaming per day was strained at times, shattered completely at others. But we were still in the midst of the pandemic then and there wasn’t much else for me to do with my free time, so I figured it was okay to set self-discipline aside for a while. Maybe it was even good experiential research, in that it re-familiarized me with that strange hungover feeling you get when you’ve spent hours and hours peering into an imaginary world behind your monitor screen — like butter that’s been scraped over too much bread, to steal a phrase from Tolkien. (For what it’s worth, I’ve found that the best cure for this condition is the same as that for a conventional hangover: a long walk in nature.)

Riot uses LoL chatlogs to weed out toxic employees

Riot has used the behaviour of its employees when playing League of Legends to identify potential problems in the workp…

[ALL] Inconsistencies and general issues with Before the Storm

105 votes, 63 comments. Okay, so before I start let me say that the original Life is Strange is my favorite game of all time and I’ve defended it…

Valve’s quest to take e-sports mainstream

The ‘Dota 2’ version of the World Cup is bringing pro gaming to the fore

Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games - Kotaku

Throughout her three years at Riot Games, the company behind League of Legends, Lacy made it her mission to hire a woman into a leadership role. Lacy had

Curriculum Guide

Riot Games’ Game Design Curriculum is an entry-level course that teaches high school students the fundamental elements of game design using a framework and interactive workshops created by our own game designers. Students will ultimately utilize their newfound knowledge of core game design concepts like goals, types of fun, opposition, rules, interaction, and balance to create a paper prototype of a multiplayer game.

Play Clicker Heroes Online Free | Clicker Heroes

Play Clicker Heroes free in your browser. Click to defeat monsters, level heroes, and idle your way to quadrillions of damage per second.

The Dota2 5v5 AI Competition – Game Lab

Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed and published by Valve. Dota 2 is free-to-play, and it’s available to download here:

How Video Games Are Changing the Way Soccer Is Played (Published 2016)

Games like FIFA that were designed to reflect the sport’s reality have helped alter it, influencing professional players and front offices.

Large tech companies don't need heroes

Large tech companies operate via systems. What that means is that the main outcomes - up to and including the overall success or failure of the company - are driven by a complex network of processes and incentives. These systems are outside the control of any particular person. Like the parts of a large codebase, they have accumulated and co-evolved over time, instead of being designed from scratch.

Designing Games With Esports In Mind - Hotspawn

With the rapid growth of esports, more and more designers are setting out to develop a game with the hopes of it becoming the next big competative game.