League of Legends: Clash of Fates

Dig Into the Art of League of Legends In This Special Digital Artbook

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Riot Games has published a digital and physical art book for League of Legends fans that is available free to view online or for purchase. It covers the some of the main parts of League such as the games champions, main map Summoner's Rift and some other odds and ends. If you love League of Legends or behind the scenes look at the art process of making games this beautiful online art book is well worth checking out.

http://artbook.na.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/volume-one

https://na.merch.riotgames.com/en/art/art-books/the-art-of-league-of-legends.html

I Went To PAX Prime 2014 And All I Got Was This Imgur Album

Been posting a flurry of things about some of the games I saw this year at PAX 2014. This isn't about any game specifically, but a place to dump all the pictures I took. They didn't all turn out as works of art, but they do highlight some of the cooler things I saw. One thing the pictures don't capture is how insane and crowded PAX Prime is. The crowds being the prime reason why I can really only handle the event for one day.

That said, it was fun attending and there really isn't anything quite like it. Click through my imgur album below and also realize the order of photos is reversed.

http://imgur.com/a/CdsO2

League of Legends Gets The "Fantasy Football" Treatment

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I was talking to a friend today that mentioned something pretty interesting. League of Legends is getting the "fantasy league" treatment. If you enjoy playing fantasy football with your friends and want to spread out to League of Legends, now you can. I sort of see this as the normalization of video game culture coming full circle. I really hope that DoTA 2 & Starcraft 2 eventually get a fantasy league draft!

http://fantasy.eslgaming.com/

Chowda wrote on 05/20/2014 at 02:34am

Oh yeah! Made my team earlier today - http://fantasy.eslgaming.com/teams/34126 . Too bad Meteos and Bjergsen are so expensive. I had to sacrifice jungle and top picks to make it under cap.

scrypt Supporter wrote on 05/20/2014 at 05:15pm

This is really cool! I'm still relatively new to the competitive names in esports, but I love this idea and hope it's wildly successful. Is it possible to make a private league? Would be cool to compete with other CGers!

Sungorth wrote on 05/20/2014 at 10:23pm

Are the seasons and players in LOL stable enough for this to work? When I follow SC2 the tournaments and players were really volatile

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 05/20/2014 at 10:45pm

There's a Dota 2 Fantasy League as well! http://blog.dota2.com/2014/05/introducing-fantasy-league-season-one/

scrypt Supporter wrote on 05/21/2014 at 12:09am

Good question, @Sungorth. The rosters seem to be fairly consistent, without much interruption to the seasons. I'm not that deep into it, though, so that could just be my perception.

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 10/02/2015 at 05:22pm

Oh man, I totally forgot about this post! I was going to write up a post about how Draft Kings offers LoL fantasy betting. The reason I feel this is significant is that Draft Kings is a MAJOR football and baseball daily fantasy site (paying out one billion dollars this season for NFL fantasy). I think having LoL in such a public spot (listed along with NFL, MLB, MMA, Soccer, etc) really could help legitimize esports even more (more than the millions of viewers and prize dollars already involved in it, this could open it up to people who have no clue what esports are).

What is League of Legends? - DraftKings Playbook
playbook.draftkings.com/news/what-is-league-of-legends
Here's a cool introduction someone on the site would see if they're interested in what LoL is. It's a pretty good summary of what a MOBA is and done without mocking gamers like one might expect from a site catering to more tradional sports fans.

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Has League of Legends Tamed the Trolls Forever?

In the latest episode of Game Show, Jamin Warren talks about how League of Legends has dealt with trolls. League uses a Tribunal to deal with trolls and it seems to have really impacted the game in a positive way.

When Cheerful Ghost launched I checked out the League of Legends community and it was a cesspool of horrible. Using both positive and negative reinforcements RIOT is doing something that seems to have worked.

As always, another rad episode of Game/Show.

League of Legends regional tournament at PAX today. Riot is

League of Legends regional tournament at PAX today. Riot is taking up a large part of the 6th floor at PAX and they still don't have enough room. I was able to see Dignitas vs Dynamic and CLG vs Legion. This is way more fun than going to a football or baseball game.

After watching a baseball game I want to take a nap. After watching CLG vs Legion I wanted to get online, call my friends and play ranked matches all night. By the way, if you didn't watch that match you should!!!

http://tournaments.leagueoflegends.com/s2-na-regionals/match/quarterfinals-clg-vs-lgn

If you ever find yourself getting bored of ranked games you

If you ever find yourself getting bored of ranked games you should give some of the popular custom games a try! I have been playing ARAM and ARAB with my friends for a change of pace. These are the "all random all mid" style on summoner's rift and "all random all bottom" on the dominion map. If you're looking for something new to try in LoL you should give these a shot!

This is a free to play DOTA style game that I find wildly

http://competitive.na.leagueoflegends.com/sites/default/files/upload/wallpaper/wallpaper_team20kat_1280x1024.jpg

This is a free to play DOTA style game that I find wildly fun and addictive! Gamers who enjoy online competitive play will probably enjoy this title quite a bit.

There are two resource systems in the game: Riot Points (RP) and Influence Points (IP). You obtain IP from playing games while you buy RP from the store. Either resource can be used to buy champions and runes. But if you want to buy a skin for your beloved champs you can only use RP.

The graphics and animations are very good and gameplay is generally smooth. My biggest complaint with this game is the community. You should either turn chat off or be ready to be trolled consistently by one of the worst communities... Read All

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/09/2012 at 04:04am

Cool. Can you get this off Steam or from the developers site only? I didn't know this is free to play.

I sort of expect any DoTA clone to be rife with douche-bags. DoTA was, for sure. I know because I dared play it as a lowly noob-cock mortal....

Chowda Post Author wrote on 03/09/2012 at 05:46am

Pretty sure this is only available from Riot. I'm used to the elite being arrogant braggarts, but I have been blindsided by these apathetic verbally abusive middle schoolers. The amount of trash talking far exceeds the typical CS/HALO/ bullshit I'm used to dealing with. I'm not bitter...

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/09/2012 at 03:22pm

Lol. I think the online douchery in certain game communities is a bit over the top. Then again as long as they all congregate to one or two games that I don't play.... ;)

vdogmr25 wrote on 03/09/2012 at 08:12pm

I play this one too. It's a blast, especially when you can get a few guys you know to play with ya. It matches you with players that team up, as well, so if you have a group of five, you're almost guaranteed to play another team of five. That's when the games can get really heated.

Chowda Post Author wrote on 03/10/2012 at 03:42am

Yeah after you get some games under your belt the matchmaking system is pretty good. However, if you're a group of 5 you get matched to other groups of 5 regardless of ranking. So those can be pretty lopsided sometimes, unless you're playing ranked of course.

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