[ad_1] “Seraphine” first appeared on social media in late June, posting selfies to Instagram and tweeting about her desire to “share music and hopefully connect with people.” By August she was releasing songs to a Soundcloud account. But Seraphine isn’t a typical social media personality — for one thing, she’s an animated character. For another, […]
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Virtual ‘League of Legends’ band K/DA returns with The Baddest
[ad_1] The wording suggests that multiple artists will be able to embody Ahri, Evelynn, Akali, and Kai/Sa, much like the British virtual band Gorillaz. That flexibility will allow K/DA to “embrace a more global pop sound,” Riot Games teased, that centers around the fictional champions “instead of the vocals of any one individual talent.” The […]
Riot Games gives its employees a week off to recharge
[ad_1] “As game developers, we’re all hyper aware of the effects of crunch and project-based deadlines. We owe it to ourselves and to you to prioritize our health as a team (well, many teams) so we can bring you new experiences long into the future.” The company says it’s shifting some patch and release timelines, […]
‘League of Legends’ championship will start in Shanghai despite pandemic
[ad_1] The company is clearly following the practices of conventional sports that have relied on limited travel and virtual fans to minimize the risk of infections, but that also means it shares some of the same issues. While a single city reduces travel, it doesn’t eliminate travel — teams will have to fly across the […]
Riot ends Saudi Arabian esports deal following fan and caster backlash
[ad_1] “I am let down by the LEC today,” Indiana ‘Froskurinn’ Black, an LEC caster tweeted shortly afterwards. “There have been many good days to be a member of the LEC team, today is not one of those days,” fellow caster Daniel ‘Drakos’ Drakos tweeted. Other members of the LEC broadcast team, including Andrew ‘Vedius’ […]
Valorant’s twelfth agent is Killjoy, a German robotics genius
[ad_1] Riot Games Finally, Killjoy’s Ultimate is a tactical Lockdown that, after a certain period, ‘detains’ enemies caught in its area of effect. Riot confirmed that the Lockdown device can be destroyed by the opposing team, though. Killjoy’s addition to Valorant could be divisive. Riot has always insisted that the game is built around gunplay, […]
Cloudflare outage cuts off connections to Discord, DownDetector and others
[ad_1] Cloudflare has acknowledged there is an issue, and said “a fix is being implemented.” Some have reported being able to access Discord again already, but we’re still seeing plenty of error pages. Engadget Cloudflare: Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Resolver and our edge network in certain locations. Customers using Cloudflare services in certain […]
Riot’s first official ‘Valorant’ esports tournaments begin this week
[ad_1] It’s been just over two months since Riot Games debuted its tactical first-person shooter, Valorant. In that time, the company has slowly opened access to the game, letting Twitch users to unlock beta keys by visiting their favorite streamers’ channels, before making it available to all PC players on June 2nd. As gamers eagerly […]
Riot Games team-up will offer mental health support to players in crisis via text
[ad_1] The non-profit, founded in 2013, released data earlier this year that shows how intervention via text message can specifically target underserved populations like gamers and Redditors. “For 37 percent of texters, Crisis Text Line was the first time they’d ever reached out for support,” the study found. “And, 68 percent of texters say they […]
Riot Games will donate $1 million to support racial equality
[ad_1] “We took time this week to look inward and to be thoughtful and deliberate in how Riot can truly help combat racism and injustice. After all, true change starts at home. We have had a long standing commitment to combating this within our games, but we realized that is not enough,” Jadeja wrote in […]