Giantkillers Samsung Galaxy have won the League of Legends Worlds tournament, clutching victory over SK Telecom T1 (SKT) in a 3-0 sweep. Samsung Galaxy (SSG) had the toughest of brackets, defeating favourites Longzhou Gaming in the quarter-final matchup 3-0, before cruising to victory against SKT. Their victory wins them around …
Read More »Vainglory’s first World Championship heads to Hollywood
The first ever Vainglory World Championship will be held at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood this December. Between the 2nd and 4th of December12 of the best Vainglory teams from across the world will fight for the title of world champions, and a nice chunk of cash. Hammers Velocity …
Read More »The groups for the League of Legends World Championship have been decided
The groups for the first stage of the League of Legends World Championship have been drawn, with group D hosting many of the world’s best teams. Group A sees Korean champions Rox Tigers face off against European champions G2 Esports, North America’s Counter Logic Gaming, who won the spring split …
Read More »LoL Worlds final to be broadcast at London’s O2 Arena
The League of Legends World Championship finals are to be simulcast by the European Gaming League at London’s O2 arena at the end of this month. League’s climactic ending to this year’s season has already begun with the group stages in Paris, and is soon to head onto the quarter-finals …
Read More »League of Legends Worlds coming to London, Paris, Brussels and Berlin
The 2015 League of Legends World Championships are heading to Europe, and will be filling out stadiums in London, Paris, Brussels and Berlin. Riot Games has announced the venues and dates for this year’s finals, following on from 2014’s South-East Asian tour, which ended in the 2002 World Cup stadium …
Read More »27m viewers watched the 2014 League of Legends final
Riot has revealed that 27m unique viewers streamed coverage of the League of Legends 2014 Finals. Over 100 hours of live content in 19 languages was broadcast by 40 partners throughout the event’s 15 days, racking up 288m cumulative daily unique page impressions and 179m hours of watched eSport. The …
Read More »Trion grows European team
MMO publisher Trion Worlds has dramatically expanded its team to cope with its 2012 release slate. The most recent hires include former Ubisoft lead game master Franck Vacher – now French community manager for End of Nations – and two former EA employees: Lee Sritharan joined as business intelligence director, …
Read More »Trio join Trion to grow Euro team
Jonathan Goddard, Jeff Pabst and Simon Bull are the latest names to join MMO specialist Trion Worlds. Goddard joins as head of European PR. He previously worked at EA Games for four years as senior international PR manager, and most recently was global PR and marketing manager at Polish publisher …
Read More »Trion wants to evolve the MMO
The CEO of online games publisher and developer Trion Worlds has told MCV that he wants his company to help evolve the MMO market. "When we set up Trion Worlds, I already had a good idea of what did and didn’t work online," founder Lars Buttler, who is the former …
Read More »Stargate Worlds studio loses licence
Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment has lost the licence for Stargate –which could spell the end for its MMO Stargate Worlds. The company was issued a notice of termination by licence owners MGM Studios last week, according to Nerdvana. The game was originally announced in 2006 but very little has been seen …
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