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League of Legends (LoL), commonly referred to as League, is a 2009 multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by Defense of the Ancients , a custom map for Warcraft III , Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre.
League of Legends logo League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Announced in October 2008, it was released for Microsoft Windows in Europe and North America as a free-to-play title on October 27, 2009, after six months of beta testing. The game has since been ported to macOS and localized for markets worldwide; by 2012 it was the ...
Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles, California.It was founded in September 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill to develop League of Legends and went on to develop several spin-off games and the unrelated first-person shooter game Valorant.
Riot Forge was an American video game publishing label created by Riot Games, developers of the MOBA video game League of Legends.Its purpose was to fund various critically-acclaimed indie game studios to create spin-off games in the fictional universe of Runeterra, generally centered around one or more of the series' playable characters, or Champions.
The League of Legends division of TSM was a gaming team based in Los Angeles, California, that competed in the League Championship Series (LCS), the top-level professional league for video game League of Legends in the United States and Canada, from 2013 to 2023. The organization sold their LCS franchise slot in 2023.
It was followed by two spiritual successors, League of Legends (2009) and Heroes of Newerth (2010), as well by a standalone sequel, Dota 2 (2013), and numerous other games in the genre, such as Smite (2014) and Heroes of the Storm (2015). [5] [6] By the early 2010s, the genre had become a big part of the esports category.
League of Legends Champions Korea: LCK South Korea: Korean: Seoul: 2012 10 1 2 3 League of Legends Pro League: LPL China: Mandarin: various: 2013 17 1 2 3 League of Legends EMEA Championship: LEC Europe, the Middle East and Africa: English: Berlin: 2013 10 1 2 3 League of Legends Championship of The Americas: LTA Americas
Professional League competition began in 2012 in the form of a three-day competition known as the Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (lit. Brazilian Championship of League of Legends), with the winner qualifying for the World Championship's International Wild Card Tournament (and later the standard Worlds play-in stage) after the 2013 ...