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E-Sports to become a Medal Event in Asian Games
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has said that it wishes to make E-Sports a medal winning event for the 2022 Asian Games. Speaking to the BBC the OCA confirmed that “the rapid development and popularity of this new form of sports participation”. A preliminary ‘trial run’ will be held at…
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MSI Invites to Fan Day at the FNATIC BUNKR Next Saturday
MSI wants to celebrate their fans and they will be doing so next weekend on Saturday the 8th April 2017 in London. The event is hosted at FNATIC’s new eSports shop, the FNATIC BUNKR, that opened the doors last November. The FNATIC BUNKR is ‘1,375 square foot of awesomeness’ that…
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Defeated LoL Player Rams Head Through Monitor
There are many ways to leave a game, and there are just as many ways to rage quit, but some are more extreme than others. After losing a League of Legends match, a player in the Chinese city of Lanzhou apparently got so angry with his teammate that he ended…
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Riot Games Go Straight Back To Court After Their Recent LoL Victory
Riot Games appear to be on a war path and are going straight back to court after their recent LoL victory against LeagueSharp. LeagueSharp were accused and found guilty of providing hacking tools, which enabled people to cheat their way through the ranks. This time, they are targeting a website…
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League of Legends Patch 6.21 Details Revealed
The ever popular League of Legends is about to get its next big content patch, bringing it up to version 6.21. The new update will add the Halloween skin set, along with a range of balance and bug fixes. Of course, this will also mean a little bit of server…
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Elderly Women In China Seen Praying to League of Legend Character
League of Legends is a world-famous game, with characters appearing all over. So what happens when you put a giant statue of one of the games most famous characters outside your door? You probably don’t expect to see an elderly women praying to it. Caught on a security camera, the…
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Research Finds In-Game Usernames Correlated With Anti-Social Behaviour
According to the latest research, it turns out the names we pick in game are a good predictor of how we behave in-game. By looking at the usernames of player in League of Legends, researchers were able to correlate anti-social tendencies in game with both age and the choice of…
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Facebook Research Reveals “LOL” is in Decline
Facebook has conducted a research paper on the communication behaviour of its users and language used to express laughter. The data was collected during the last week of May and analyzed any prominent string of characters matching laughter. Interestingly, “haha” was the most popular response with 51.4%, followed by an…
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Overclockers UK Enters the eSports Arena
Overclockers UK is well-known for the online shop full of great hardware and gaming systems, but they aren’t content with just supplying all the gaming components, they want to part of it. Not surprising when you have a company basically made up of gamers and for gamers, those who want…
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LoL Update Sees New Map Introduced
Many months ago I was introduced to a jaw-dropping statistic. According to their own data, Riot Games will see a minimum of 4 million users logged in to their League of Legends client at any one time, worldwide. This really helped put into perspective how big games were really becoming globally.…
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Lizard Squad Take Down Twitch and League of Legends
Game streaming service Twitch.tv and online game League of Legends have been hit by notorious hacking group “Lizard Squad”, leaving both services offline for gamers and spectators alike. The hacking group, or what ever we should be calling them, launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in the early…
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21 Year Old Earned $1000 A Day By Hacking League of Legends
Being a professional gamer is the desire of many young players, especially when they hear that the money involved can be serious, with league jackpots easily peaking at $5m USD as is the case with the upcoming LoL championships, but some people are not content on playing fair and square…
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Riot Brings LoL Season 3 World Championship To The Staples Center On October 4th
Riot Games today unveiled plans for the Season 3 World Championship, the premier event for League of Legends professional esports on a global stage. Beginning 16 September, the best teams from each region around the world will descend on Southern California for a month of intense action, including semi-finals held…
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MLG Breaks Attendee Records With Largest Competitive Gaming Event In MLG History
Major League Gaming (MLG) has shattered previous records with more than 21,000 competitors and fans attending the three-day Spring Championship in Anaheim, CA. From June 28-30, hundreds of the world’s best players competed for $105,000 in prizes with FXOpen eSports (League of Legends), CompLexity (Call of Duty: Black Ops II)…
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League of Legends Freljord Patch Released
For the last few weeks I have been getting lost in the world of League of Legends and while I’ve been getting a lot of entertainment out of the game, I have noticed that it lacks one major feature, maps! This latest patch has been eagerly awated by the League…
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