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Pratice makes perfect in League of Legends, especially if it's against AI bots. That's why Riot has adjusted bot behaviors to act more human.

"The guiding principle of Ultra Rapid Fire is that players make plays, and making plays feels good."

League of Legends is coming to HBO. Sort of. A new partnership between developer Riot Games and the subscription cable network will result in a mash-up trailer starring characters from the MOBA and Game of Thrones. How quaint.

League of Legends is bringing a new Team Builder mode into beta, which allows players to set their champion, role, and position prior to entering the game, in order to help bolster teamwork.

Riot's free-to-play Dote 'em up League of Legends is kind of a big deal, you've probably heard, and even bigger than we knew. The developer has released new figures revealing that 27 million players are LoLing ever day, and 67 million every month, boasting that this makes LoL "the most played video game in the world."

Even as perhaps the most straightforward of Dote 'em ups, League of Legends throws an awful lot at new players to learn quickly. Part of the problem is the free-to-play game only offers a selection of characters to everyone for free and rotates this selection regularly, so just as someone's learning a champion, they shuffle out and newbies must start over. So, soon, new players will have a fixed lineup to choose from.

Riot's League of Legends is the latest to suffer at the hands of hackers, with 120,000 transaction records from 2011 accessed.

Riot Games has announced that the US government now officially recognizes League of Legends players as professional athletes.

The League of Legends season 3 World Championship will take place in the Staples Center this year, on October 4.

League of Legends studio Riot Games explains how it has been using a behavior initiative to conduct subtle experiments on its large player base.