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Riot Games has released a new article discussing Valorant‘s map diversity and explaining how it has made improvements to tune it for competitive play.In the new game health article, a member of the competitive team on Valorant, Brian Chang, acknowledged players’ frustration with encountering the same map multiple games in a row, explaining that as a result, “we wanted to make sure that we could improve the diversity of maps played without compromising the health of matchmaking (by influencing things like queue times or match balance).”Chang said that when the game launched, map selection was “truly as random as it could be” and all maps had an identical chance – 25 per cent – of being chosen regardless of what the players played recently.However, according to new Riot stats, over the course of five games, 26 per cent of players saw the same map three times or more.Fast forward to 2022, Valorant now has seven maps, and feedback from North American players informed Riot Games around March of this year that 67 per cent felt like they were encountering the same map multiple times in a row.With patch 4.04, the developer implemented a more diverse map selection change, so instead of making it a random process, it opted to create a deterministic choice that selects the map that minimizes streaks.

Riot Games has revealed more about the upcoming 12.10 update for League Of Legends, with focus on reducing the overall damage present in the game.Announced today (May 6), champion durability of the entire roster is being tweaked, with the following stats being increased across the board: Base health, health per level, armour per level and magic resist per level.Riot says that to properly balance these increases, some other changes will need to be made in 12.10, so nerfs to sustain and buffs to Baron, Turrets and mana regeneration will all take place as well.“We believe that there is currently too much damage in League Of Legends and [this] isn’t beneficial for letting players showcase their skill by giving them more opportunities for counterplay and to live out their high moments,” said Riot.The developer also assures it isn’t trying to “create a meta where there are no kills 15 minutes into the game,” with Riot saying pros of lower survivability include that a lot players enjoy high-kill games, and that it rewards good play with kills.Players should feel like their champions deal and take less damage, that burst champions need to commit more resources for quick kills, bigger counterplay opportunities should be seen, and teamfights should last longer.Riot says it still thinks champions should be burst killed, rewarding those that are “extremely ahead”, but that the team’s intent is to not “overnerf burst champions” overall.“We still think that League Of Legends is at its best with fast-paced, high intensity combat; but now that it’s gone too far in that direction we need to rein it back a bit,” explained Riot.“We don’t think any particular champions, items, or systems are out of line (even if they may have contributed to

Riot Games has shared a preview for League Of Legends patch 12.9, detailing some sizeable changes to Olaf and Taliyah as well as a nerf aimed at players taking Pyke to mid lane.Today (May 4), Matt Leung-Harrison – lead designer for game balance in League Of Legends – has detailed what players can expect from patch 12.9.Changelists are still subject to change. All of the champion adjustment lists are pretty lengthy, but some of the notable changes are listed here.

Riot Games has released patch 12.8 for League Of Legends, which gives champion Swain a sizeable rework to take him out of his current support role.Patch notes for 12.8 have confirmed that the biggest change in this update is Swain’s rework. The goal of this rework is to remove Swain from his current support role and return him to the game’s solo lanes, which is where he was originally intended to be played in.“Swain has certainly made a name for himself in bot lane since his last mini rework, but as the commander of the Noxian front lines, he should also be one to strike fear in his solo lane enemies’ hearts,” explained the patch notes.Swain will now receive more healing from his passive effect, and while the champion will no longer pull in enemies immobilised by allies, his E can now be re-activated to pull in all enemies hit, rather than just one.

Valorant patch, the character Jett will be receiving some major nerfs to address issues some players have been facing.With the introduction of patch 4.08, Jett’s dash (called Tailwind) will only work after a short delay once the ability key is pressed. Following that, Jett will activate a 12 second window where she is empowered to immediately dash on the next button press.

Valorant esports player Jay “Sinatraa” Won was suspended by Riot Games for “failing to fully cooperate” with an investigation into accusations of sexual assault.However, yesterday (April 12) Sinatraa took to social media to say he was “ready for a return to competitive play.”Sinatraa was a pro gamer and a member of Valorant team Sentinels when his ex-girlfriend Cleo Hernandez released a statement on Twitter detailing her relationship with him. In the lengthy post, Hernandez detailed multiple instances of alleged sexual assault, gaslighting, and mental and emotional abuse at the hands of Sinatraa alongside supporting evidence.Within days, Sinatraa was temporarily suspended by Sentinels with Riot Games later handing out a six-month ban due to his failure to fully cooperate with the investigation.Speaking about the decision Alex Francois, the Head of Competitive Operations for Valorant Esports said that while the investigation “did not come to a definitive conclusion”, the Competitive Operations team that was reviewing the case “had serious concerns with Sinatraa’s conduct during the course of the investigation.”The ban expired in September but since then, Sinatraa hasn’t taken part in any professional tournaments.However, yesterday (April 12) he took to Twitter to say “It’s been a year since I was forced to step back from competitive play.

Riot Games has announced that it has raised £4.1million ($5.4million) from several of its games to provide financial aid to humanitarian organisations that are working to assist victims of the Ukraine conflict.Between March 5 and March 12, Riot Games collected all proceeds from battle pass sales in Valorant, Legends Of Runeterra, Teamfight Tactics, and Wild Rift. The profits were set aside to be donated to humanitarian organisations in Ukraine amid the ongoing invasion by Russian forces.This also included profits from the Bee skin line released for League Of Legends.

Riot Games has revealed details about the upcoming patch 12.6 for Teamfight Tactics – check out the notes below.Patch 12.6 is currently scheduled for release March 30 and will reduce attack damage across the board in Teamfight Tactics.The patch also makes changes to the amount of time Teamfight Tactics players will have to choose augments while damage caused by both Electrocharge and Luden’s Echo will now scale up based on the current stage.You can read the full 12.6 patch notes for Teamfight Tactics below:Combat Recap Interface ChangesAugmentsTraitsAttack Damage ReductionUnits: Tier 1Units: Tier 2Units: Tier 3Units: Tier 4Units: Tier 5ItemsAugmentsTraitsUnits: Tier 1Units: Tier 2Units: Tier 3Units: Tier 4ReinforcementsPlayer DamageTraits In other news, Bungie has revealed that the recent wave of Destiny 2 video takedowns were “fraudulent”.

Riot Games has released an update for Valorant that includes changes to Deathmatch and CPU-bound performance.Patch 4.03 is available now and includes changes to one of Valorant’s Agents: Brimstone. Primarily, Brimstone’s ultimate has been improved and his Orbital Strike calls down three large lasers from the sky that will now better deny information. According to the patch notes:Valorant’s Deathmatch mode has also received some changes.

Riot Games has addressed issues surrounding toxicity within Valorant and its chat systems, outlining what it’s already done and what’s still to come.In a blog shared today, Riot Games has shared its thoughts on abuse and toxicity within Valorant.“While we can never remove the bad conduct itself from individuals, we can work to deter behavior such as insults, threats, harassment, or offensive language through our game systems,” explained the blog, whilst adding that there’s also room to “encourage “pro-social” behaviour”.Outlining what the studio already does to combat toxicity, the blog states that Riot currently uses player feedback to identify when some individuals are deemed particularly toxic, so it can punish them faster. It also touches on the game’s recently-added muted words list, which aims to let players choose which words and phrases they do not want to see or hear in the game.On the topic of punishments, Riot says it has issued 400,000 voice chat and text bans and 40,000 bans in January alone.Looking ahead, Riot shared its plans to expand its efforts to tackle toxicity in voice chat, on which it said the following:When a player experiences toxicity, especially in voice comms, we know how incredibly frustrating it is and how helpless it makes us feel both during the game, as well as post game. Not only does it undermine all the good in Valorant, it can have lasting damage to our players and community overall.

Riot Games has revealed its plans for the Valorant Yoru rework as part of the Episode 4 Act 2 update.In a new blog post from Valorant producer John Gosicki and game designer Ryan Cousart, both developers discussed the Yoru rework for Episode 4 Act 2, breaking down the character’s skills and how the changes will impact the game.“Our time as of writing this is focused on bringing these changes to life—these always take quite a bit of time!” the post reads. “The loop of creating art to match gameplay, playtest, and iterate based on feedback always takes a bit of time, but ultimately, it’s what leads to Valorant’s consistent, tactical gameplay.”To start off, the developers touched on Fakeout, Yoru’s ability that currently allows him to directionally mimic the sound of his own footsteps, therefore tricking enemies.

League Of Legends patch 12.4 notes have been revealed, confirming which Champions will be buffed and nerfed next.Phlox, a Riot Games designer who works on the popular MOBA game, took to Twitter to share a teaser of what players can expect when the upcoming 12.4 update drops on February 16.First up are Champion changes, and in this case, it looks like a great number of them will be getting buffed when the next patch releases. These Champions include Aatrox, Illaoi, Amumu, Ashe, Lucian, Kalista, Xayah, Sett, Rumble, Neeko, and Nami – whose E ability will be getting a nerf revert.As for Champion nerfs, Zeri, Mundo Qiyana, Veigar, Blitzcrank, Nunu & Willump, and Master Yi fall under this category.

Valorant esports head for Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA), has outlined Riot Games‘ approach to cultivating competition in its free-to-play shooter.Speaking to NME, Ringland said there would be “pretty significant changes” coming to Valorant‘s competitive environment in 2022.Part of these changes include the introduction of Valorant Regional Circuits (VRCs) and Valorant Regional Leagues (VRLs), which Ringland explained:“Within those circuits are many different amateur events that cater to many different sorts of people – social people, players that just want to be professional, they can all find something cool to participate in that. They exist on a regional level – we have one in France, one in Turkey, one in Nina et cetera.

Valorant, and developer Riot Games has outlined the changes coming to the competitive shooter.A few changes and updates have been announced as part of update 4.02 for Valorant, so a breakdown of the completed list of the patch notes can be found below.Multiple performance updates have arrived in 4.02, including better latency for windowed fullscreen mode, in an effort to match it up with when fullscreen is being used exclusively. The notes add that “these improvements should play well with in-game overlays, however, having another program’s window on top of your gameplay window will negate these benefits.”There are also a handful of performance updates for Valorant as well, including an AFK (away from keyboard) detection buff, better detections for non-participatory behaviour done whilst in-game, and agent-select reporting.

League of Legends developer Riot Games has issued an apology after hitting a Ukrainian comic creator with takedown requests over a comic with a similar title to its Netflix animated series, Arcane.Creator Kutty Sark had been publishing the comic Arcane Flames, a gothic fantasy series, on webcomic site Tapas.io since 2019. However, on January 28, Sark revealed that their TeePublic store had removed a t-shirt featuring the art of their original character Al’vis following a DMCA Takedown Notice from Riot, “claiming that said design is their intellectual property”.Riot Games claimed that my original artwork is theirintellectual property.I'm just some girl from Ukraine and have no voice if such a big company as Riot Games claims that my work belongs to them, even if all facts prove them wrong.The only thing I can do is to speak here.

Riot Games have announced that the 4.01 patch for Valorant will go live later today (January 19) allowing players to curate their own muted word list.As it stands, Valorant has an AI that filters out unsavoury language from the game but this new addition will allow players to curate which words they don’t want to see in-game.“We admit that some players are often smarter than our automated bad word detection system and continually find creative ways to type things we don’t want to in chat.”“This is why we need your help to make our detections better! Help us, help you,” reads the announcement before explaining how the use of numbers and punctuation in the place of letters is allowing players to bypass the current setup.“We’re hoping that we can leverage the lists that you and others create to make the chat less toxic by comparing them across regions, and using the data we collect to improve our own detections of bad words. Thanks in advance for all that are willing to lend a hand.

Arcane, Netflix has shared a video of singer and streamer Chrissy Costanza teaching a senior citizen how to play League Of Legends.In the wholesome video, Costanza helps senior citizen Glenn get to grips with Riot Games title League Of Legends, the game that one of Netflix’s latest shows – Arcane – is based on.As she teaches Glenn to play Jinx, Costanza breaks down the intricacies of the multiplayer strategy game for Glenn, explaining how to kill minions and avoid taking damage from the powerful

Project L, set in the same world as League Of Legends, has received a gameplay update video.Developer Riot Games shared the video yesterday (November 20), where lead developers Tom and Tony Cannon went into detail about the team’s direction with the game.Whilst it is “still too far out to commit to a release date,” the developers wanted to bring fans up to speed on the progress of Project L.

League of Legends players are reporting a myriad of balancing issues as the game enters the 2022 preseason.A series of posts on Reddit, first spotted by The Loadout, are showing players absolutely dominating games with a combination of new items and reworked features. The new assassin item seems balanced on noc from leagueoflegends User Drachir133 posted his gameplay clip of him testing some of the new weapons, and the community are worried certain changes have been implemented too heavily.

Riot Games says it is removing four-stacks (groups of four players) from the competitive queue in Valorant, due to ongoing “toxicity reports”.Essentially this means that groups squadding up and communicating as a team of four cannot go into competitive five player games. According to recent patch notes post, this has been done for multiple reasons:“Alongside the five-stack changes, we are also removing four-stacks from the competitive queue,” read the post.

Riot Forge – who is responsible for publishing games set in the League Of Legends universe – has announced a livestreamed Riot Forge Showcase with Nintendo Switch stream, which is set for later today (November 16).

Arcane – a Netflix show set in the League Of Legends universe – has caused a very sudden uptick in fans playing the starring characters in League Of Legends.Since Arcane launched – and knocked Squid Game off the platform’s top spot in 37 countries – fans have rushed to play the show’s stars in League Of Legends.This is visible via the pick rate metrics for each champion – a statistic that shows the percentage of League Of Legends games that a champion is played.According to analytics site

Riot Forge has announced HexTech Mayhem: A League Of Legends Story, which will take the world of League Of Legends into a 2D rhythm runner-setting.Announced today (November 9), Hextech Mayhem: A League Of Legends Story is a rhythm runner by Choice Provisions, which is behind the Bit.Trip series of games in the same genre.Set in the League Of Legends universe, players will control Ziggs – an existing champion in League – as he causes chaos across Piltover, which is where Riot‘s Netflix show

Riot is celebrating the launch of the League Of Legends Netflix series Arcane with an Among Us crossover.Riot is running several crossovers with all of its games to celebrate the Netflix show Arcane, which is based on the world of League Of Legends. However, the latest crossover comes from a separate developer and will occur in the game Among Us.The Progress Days event is named after a holiday in the show’s town of Piltover.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and League Of Legends broke viewership records over the weekend, with esports tournaments for each game attracting millions of viewers.Last weekend (November 6 – November 7) was an action-packed two days for esports fans.

League Of Legends animated show, Arcane.Today (November 1), the social media platform announced its first-ever partnership with Riot Games ahead of the release of its new animated Netflix show, Arcane.

Riot Games has revealed details of Episode 3, Act 3 Battlepass for Valorant as well as new character Chamber.Running for ten weeks from November 2, Episode 3, Act 3 Battlepass will cost 1000VP and give players access to various weapon skins, gun buddy’s and sprays. There will also be multiple free items in the free tier.Sean Marino, Associate Art Director said: “With this Battlepass, we wanted to celebrate the end-of-year traditions like Halloween, the New Year, and the winter holidays.

Riot Games has announced that the upcoming agent for Valorant has been pushed back two weeks behind the Episode 3 Act III update. Agents tend to drop at the start of a new act, so character producer John Goscicki took to a Valorant blog post to break the news: “Episode 3 Act III kicks off soon, and we know because of our past cadence that you’ve come to expect new Agents to drop with the start of a new Act.

World Of Warcraft game designer, Chris Kaleiki, has announced that he has started his own studio called Notorious Studios.Earlier this week (October 25), Chris Kaleiki took to Twitter to share the news that he has created his own game studio Notorious Studios – established with other former developers of World Of Warcraft – focused on building the next role-playing game.“Deciding to leave Blizzard was one of the hardest decisions of my life, ” Kaleiki said on his Twitter thread.

Riot Games is walking back its decision to get rid of /all chat in League of Legends – instead trialling the removal on a region-by-region basis.The company recently announced it would remove /all chat from League of Legends due to increased incidents of verbal abuse. But since the announcement, the response has been mixed.“Starting this patch, /all chat will be disabled in matchmade queues in a few regions,” Riot confirmed in a patch update.