Riot Games at PAX 2010

The company behind League of Legends will be at PAX 2010.


For those of you who attended PAX last year, and are wondering if Riot will be in attendance, no need to worry boys and girls!

Riot Games will be there, and they've got a very special skin to commemorate the occasion. Now, if you're an avid follower of Gabe and Tycho's Penny Arcade, then you're probably going to recognize the infamous Cardboard Tube Samurai.

And if you're not native to our fair Western coast, you'll be pleased to know that we're also planning on paying a visit to PAX East.

League of Legends Nominated at the GDC Awards 2010

League of Legends, Riot's DotA based game has been nominated at gdconlineawards.com

Please join us for the inaugural award ceremony in Austin, TX this October 7, 2010.

If you have questions, please email questions@gdconlineawards.com.

Game Developers Choice Online Awards

Gdconlineawards.com 2010 Nominees:

These particular categories will be both nominated and voted on by the development community.

The Best Online Game Design Award

The Best Online Game Design Award honors the overall excellence of design in an online game that launched in public beta or full version in the year to May 2010. This category recognizes the best social-specific gameplay mechanics, quest design, and other major game design elements.

* We Rule (Newtoy/Ngmoco)
* Champions Online (Cryptic)
* Zoo Kingdom (Blue Fang)
* Dungeon Fighter Online (Neople/Nexon)
* League Of Legends (Riot Games)


The Best Online Visual Arts Award

The Best Online Visual Arts Award recognizes the overall excellence of visual art in online games that launched in the 12 months to May 2010 - including, but not limited to, character and animation design, interface design, and 2D or 3D art creation and direction of all kinds.

*GodFinger (Wonderland Software/Ngmoco)
*Papermint (Avaloop)
*League Of Legends (Riot Games)
*Star Trek Online (Cryptic)
*Love (Quel Solaar)

The Best Community Relations Award

The Best Community Relations Award honors the currently operating online game that provides the highest quality community feedback and experience, including customer support, forum moderation and leadership, weblog and information updates, real-life events, and other community outreach.

*Wizard101 (KingsIsle Entertainment)
*Free Realms (Sony Online Entertainment)
*EVE Online (CCP)
*Guild Wars (ArenaNet)
*World Of WarCraft (Blizzard)

The Best Online Technical Award

The Best Online Technical Award recognizes the overall excellence of technology in an online game that launched in the 12 months to May 2010. This includes excellence in complexity of network infrastructure, persistent world coding, graphics technology, artificial intelligence, or any other elements.

*Global Agenda (Hi-Rez)
*Aion (NCSoft)
*Love (Quel Solaar)
*League Of Legends (Riot Games)
*Champions Online (Cryptic)

The Best Social Network Game Award

The Best Social Network Game Award recognizes the best game that launched on a social network such as Facebook or MySpace in open beta or full version in the year to May 2010, honoring the most outstanding title in terms of overall depth, execution and quality in the space.

*Nightclub City (Booyah)
*NanoStar Siege (Digital Chocolate)
*FIFA Superstars (Playfish)
*Social City (Playdom)
*Treasure Isle (Zynga)

The Best Audio for an Online Game Award

The Best Audio for an Online Game Award recognizes the overall excellence of audio in an online game that launched in the 12 months to May 2010 - including sound effects, musical composition, and overall sound design for an online title.

*Nightclub City (Booyah)
*Champions Online (Cryptic)
*We Rule (Newtoy/Ngmoco)
*Music Pets (Conduit Labs)
*Aion (NCSoft)

The Best New Online Game Award

The Best New Online Game Award recognizes excellence in any online-specific game, including MMOs, free to play titles and social network games that launched to the public in open beta or full versions in the twelve months ending May 2010.

*League Of Legends (Riot Games)
*Dungeon Fighter Online (Neople/Nexon)
*We Rule (Newtoy/Ngmoco)
*FIFA Superstars (Playfish)
*Nightclub City (Booyah)

The Best Live Game Award

The Best Live Game Award recognizes the best currently-operating online game, having been launched in North America for at least 12 months (before May 2009), and distinguishing itself by that exceptional new content through expansion packs, patches, or other updates in the last 12 months, as well as a vibrant player community, high-quality community management and network operation during that period.

*EVE Online (CCP)
*World Of WarCraft (Blizzard)
*Dungeon Fighter Online (Neople/Nexon)
*Farmville (Zynga)
*League Of Legends (Riot Games)


Please vote for League of Legends. This will be the best way to gain exposure for the DotA based game genre.

League of Legends 2010 Winter Games Celebration

To celebrate the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games, Riot is excited to kick off a two week long event with limited edition Winter Games content. The Winter Games is a global event which brings countries from all over the world together in the spirit of competition and sportsmanship. In honor of this event, we are proud to introduce content that players from all countries can enjoy. We will introduce several additions to the game and store items that will be available for this limited time only (February 12 - March 2).

Champion skins: We will release eight new skins on Day 1 of the Winter Games event. These skins will be available for purchase throughout the entirety of the Winter Games celebration:

* The Mighty Jax
* Curling Veigar
* Vancouver Amumu
* Ice Toboggan Corki
* Whistler Village Twitch
* Team Spirit Anivia
* Festival Kassadin
* Union Jack Fiddlesticks


To kick off the Winter Games event, the following four skins will be available for 30% off during the opening weekend (February 12 - 14). After this sale period ends, the skins will return to their regular prices:

* The Mighty Jax
* Curling Veigar
* Vancouver Amumu
* Ice Toboggan Corki


Runes: We will release six special Winter Games runes that will only be available during this event (February 12 - March 2). Three of the runes will be Tier 1.5, and the other three will be Tier 2.5:

* Mark of the Combatant (Tier 2.5, critical damage)
* Lesser Mark of Alpine Alacrity (Tier 1.5, attack speed)
* Seal of the Extreme (Tier 2.5, dodge)
* Lesser Seal of the Medalist (Tier 1.5, health)
* Glyph of the Soaring Slalom (Tier 2.5, cooldown reduction)
* Lesser Glyph of the Challenger (Tier 1.5, AP per level)


Map: On the second weekend of the event, we will replace the winter map with the Winter Games map, a variant of the winter version of Summoner’s Rift that includes many Winter Games elements and decorations.

As with the holiday skins and runes from our Snowdown Showdown event, you will still be able to use this content after the Winter Games event has ended, but only if you have purchased them from the Store, so be sure to grab this limited edition content while you still can. In the spirit of competition and sportsmanship of the games, we at Riot wish everyone a happy 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and we look forward to battling with you during the League of Legends 2010 Winter Games celebration!

Also, don't forget to vote for League of Legends over at MMOSite

If we are in the lead in at least two of the three categories for which we have been nominated by February 15, at 12 PM PST, we will be celebrating by awarding double IP for the second weekend of the Winter Games event!

League of Legends Release Notes v1.0.0.74

League of Legends Release Notes v1.0.0.74


New Skins in the Store

Celebrate the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics with our eight new Olympic-themed skins! These skins will be available for a limited time only (February 12 - March 2), so grab them before they're gone.

Olympic Skins:

* Ice Toboggan Corki
* Vancouver Amumu
* Curling Veigar
* Union Jack Fiddlesticks
* Team Spirit Anivia
* Festival Kassadin
* Olympic Village Twitch
* The Mighty Jax


Additionally, to commemorate this upcoming Valentine's Day, Twisted Fate will have a special Jack of Hearts skin, available starting February 10.

New 1-Day XP and IP Boosts are also now available in the Store.

PVP.net v 1.05.14

* Implemented a new Logout function that will return the user to the Login screen. This option can be accessed through the Options menu.
* Fixed a bug that was causing PVP.net to crash in certain situations when creating an Arranged Team.
* Fixed an issue that was causing the Practice Game Browser to not sort columns correctly.
* Fixed Sound/Music so that it does not turn back on if you had it muted and then minimized and restored PvP.net.
* Wins/Leaves on the End Of Game Screen should now be updated correctly and not always show "0".
* You can now see limited information about other players’ Most Played Champions in their Summoner Profile.
* Fixed several issues with Friends List presence and performance. This is still ongoing.


League of Legends v 1.0.0.74

Alistar

* Pulverize stun duration reduced to 2 from 2.2


Anivia

* Attacks against Anivia while she is rebirthing will now properly trigger calls for help


Cho'Gath

* Fixed a bug with Feast not able to kill Poppy


Gangplank

* Parrrley now deals Physical Damage
* Fixed a bug in which Parrrley was dealing extra damage
* Parrrley percentage damage from Attack Damage increased to 110% from 80%
* Parrrley bonus damage reduced to 20/55/90/120/150 from 30/60/90/120/150
* Parrrley will no longer apply Grog-soaked blade
* Fixed a tooltip issue with Grog-soaked blade


Gragas

* Drunken Rage Cooldown reduced to 30 seconds from 45
* Drunken Rage Buff duration reduced to 20 seconds from 25
* Drunken Rage Physical Damage bonus increased to 30/40/50/60/70 per level from 20/30/40/50/60
* Drunken Rage Channel duration lowered to 1 second from 1.5
* Fixed a bug with Body Slam where Gragas would sometimes ignore collision if he passed through a dead minion


Katarina

* Reduced the casting range of Bouncing Blades to 600 from 650
* Killer Instinct Cooldown reduced to 22/20/18/16/14 from 23/21/19/17/15
* NOTE: Katarina is slated for an additional upgrade on her Killer Instinct skill, but it unfortunately did not make it into the patch. We will be adding this in an upcoming patch.


Nidalee

* Fixed a bug with Bushwhack causing stealthed units to flicker


Ryze

* Overload Damage reduced to 50/90/130/170/210 from 70/105/140/175/210
* Spell Flux Damage increased to 70/85/100/115/130 from 50/70/90/110/130
* Spell Flux Ability Power coeffecient increased to .38 from .33
* Desperate Power Cooldown reduced to 40/40/40 from 60/50/40
* Increased base Movement Speed to 310 from 300
* Increased Attack Range to 550 from 425
* Increased base Damage to 49.5 from 45
* Increased base Mana to 305 from 293
* Increased base Mana Regen to 4.9 from 4.6
* Increased base Health to 446 from 420
* Increased Health gain per level to 86 from 78
* Increased base Armor to 14.2 from 10.1
* Increased Armor gain per level to 3.7 from 3.2


Singed

* Mega Adhesive Cooldown reduced to 14 from 15
* Fling Cooldown reduced to 11.5 from 12


Shaco

* Fixed a bug where Jack-in-the-Boxes would stop firing after they killed a monster


Soraka

* Fixed a bug where Infuse was not playing a sound effect when cast on allies


Taric

* Fixed a bug with Radiance where it was providing too little damage


Teemo

* Camoflague stealth timer reduced to 4 from 4.5
* Fixed a bug in Blinding Dart's tooltip


Twisted Fate

* Destiny slow reduced to 30% from 45%


Zilean

* Rewind Cooldown reduced to 18/15/12/9/6 from 30/28/26/24/22, but will no longer affect itself


Items

* Fixed a tooltip error with Mejai's Soulstealer
* Increased the range of Oracle's Elixir sight by 50
* Fixed a tooltip error with Guinsoo's Rageblade
* Fixed a bug where the first time you attacked a target in an attack cycle, Guinsoo's Rageblade would not function
* Guinsoo's Rageblade now triggers on spell cast in addition to hitting a target
* Executioner's Calling: Reduced the duration of Mourning to 8 from 12
* Void Staff recipe changed- Now requires Blasting Wand + Amplifying Tome + 1000g
* Archangel's Staff recipe cost reduced to 1000g from 1050g


General

* Updated character tags for new characters in PVP.net
* Baron Nashor now adds a debuff to his primary attack target- "Voracious Corrosion" reduces the target's attack speed by 60%.
* The In-Game Chat system has been improved:
o All chat commands are now case insensitive when looking up User Names (ie: you can type "lima beans" instead of "Lima Beans" or “volibar” instead of “Volibar”)
o Typing names with spaces into chat commands no longer requires you to put the name into quotes
o “/ignore” should now function correctly, syncing with your PVP.net ignore list and preventing you from receiving messages people on your ignore list in game
o You are also now able to “/ignore” people in game that are not on your friend list
o “/ignore” can now be accessed with “/squelch” as well
o “/help” can now be accessed by “/?” as well
o “/surrender” can now be used with “/ff” as well, and “/nosurrender” by “/noff”
o “/w” can now be accessed with “/msg” as well
o Fixed an issue that was causing “/r” to incorrectly remember the last person who whispered you
o Improved all feedback and error reporting for all commands
* Fixed several game server crashes
* Made consumables/activatable items in your inventory easier to click
* Fixed an issue where items in shop would get corrupted and you would not be able to buy them


Healing Reduction

* Healing Reduction effects no longer stack


Masteries

* Burning Embers no longer gives a placeholder buff icon while active


Additional info:
League of Legends (PC)
Genre: DBG

LoL Community Site Login Issues (How to Fix)

LoL Community Site Login Issues (How to Fix) : League of Legends
A number of our players ran into issues that prevented them from logging into the community site and forums. We are still working on fixing this bug, but while we work on it, we wanted to let people login to the forums.

Q: What is affected?
A: This only affects forum login, players can login to the game and play normally.

Q: Who is affected?
A: Only some people are having issues logging into the community site and forums, most can login and post normally.

Q: How do I know if I’m affected?
A: If you receive an error that says “Your account does not have a summoner” or “Password and Account Name combination not recognized” when trying to login to the community site here.

Q: What do I do if I’m affected?
A: You can continue to play the game if you like (your PvP.net login should work). If you want to login to the forums you can e-mail support@riotgames.com to reset your password.

Q: Why can’t I reset my password the normal way?
A: Unfortunately the same bug has affected the security questions, meaning it won’t recognize your security answers as correct.

Q: Is my information/password secure?
A: Yes. Right now it’s a bit too secure actually. We hash your password and the bug is with comparing what you entered with what is stored.

Q: When will this be fixed?
A: We’ve got our top men on this, and we’ll post an update as soon as we have a fix. In the meantime, most of you won’t be affected, if you are, you can keep playing, and e-mail support@riotgames.com.

Q: How long will it take to reset my password?
A: We are dealing with a number of requests, so please be patient with us. We will reset the passwords as quickly as we can.

League of Legends Release Notes v1.0.0.70

League of Legends Patch Notes v1.0.0.70


PVP.net version 1.03.11

* LeaverBuster additions to PVP.net
o Leave Forgiveness - When other players view your profile or Summoner information, the actual total of leaves will only be displayed if it is outside of the leave forgiveness threshold. This will still allow players to identify chronic leavers, but will not punish players who accidentally leave.
o Automatic Requeing – While in Champion Select, if another Summoner leaves the game, all other players will be placed back into the matchmaking queue with the same settings they had previously selected. This also works for arranged teams unless the leaver was a part of the team.
* Fixed an issue that was causing IP to not update in the Store for some players
* Fixed an error that was causing PVP.net to not restore after the completion of a game in some instances
* Fixed a bug with Masteries that allowed users to bypass prerequisites in some situations


League of Legends version 1.0.0.70

Champions:

Poppy, The Iron Ambassador

* Devastating Blow – Poppy crushes her opponent, dealing base damage plus a flat amount and a percentage of her target’s max health as a bonus damage. The bonus damage cannot exceed a threshold based on rank.
* Paragon of Demacia – Passive: Upon being hit or attacking an enemy, Poppy’s Armor and Damage are increased by a flat amount for 5 seconds. This effect can stack 10 times. Active: Poppy gains max stacks of Paragon of Demacia and her Movement Speed is increased for 5 seconds.
* Heroic Charge – Poppy charges at an enemy and carries them for a short distance. The initial impact deals a small amount of damage, and if they collide with terrain, her target will take a high amount of damage and be stunned.
* Diplomatic Immunity – Poppy focuses intently on a single target dealing increased damage to them. Poppy is immune to any damage and abilities from enemies other than her target.
* Valiant Fighter – Any damage dealt to Poppy that exceeds 10% of her current health is reduced by 50%. This doesn’t affect damage dealt by structures.


Anivia

* Frostbite Range increased to 600 from 550
* Glacial Storm Range increased to 625 from 600
* Glacial Storm Cooldown increased to 10 from 6
* Glacial Storm Mana Cost decreased to 50/70/90 from 70/100/130


Blitzcrank

* Overdrive now applies additive attack and movement speed boosts rather than multiplicative
* Rocket Grab pull back speed increased


Evelynn

* Evelynn has updated particles


Fiddlesticks

* Darkwind was bugged resulting in longer silence durations than intended. It now silences for 2 seconds per bounce which is a lower disable duration than the previous version.


Heimerdinger

* Fixed a bug with Hex-Tech Micro Rockets that caused them to deal instant damage


Janna

* Eye of the Storm is now instant cast


Karthus

* Lay Waste Range increased to 875 from 825
* Lay Waste Mana cost decreased to 20/28/36/44/52 from 24/32/40/48/54
* Base Armor Per Level increased to 3.5 from 3.0


Kassadin

* Void Stone now applies an additive attack speed boost, rather than multiplicative


Katarina

* Death Lotus Physical Damage Scaling reduced to 55% from 65%


Malphite

* Unstoppable Force no longer affects Baron Nashor


Master Yi

* Highlander now applies an additive attack speed boost, rather than multiplicative. This change means Master Yi won’t be as strong with Highlander and a second attack speed increase (such as items).
* Highlander now applies a multiplicative movement speed boost, rather than additive.
* Highlander attack speed boost increased to 40/60/80%, from 30/50/70%


Morgana

* Fixed a bug where Soul Shackle did not work on targets with CC reduction
* Increased Base Health to 403 from 387
* Increased Health Per Level to 86 from 83
* Increased Base Damage to 50 from 39.5
* Increased Base Damage Per Level to 2.8 from 2.625
* Increased Base Armor to 15 from 11.35


Shaco

* Hallucinate clone’s damage taken is now set to a fixed percent bonus taken per level to 135/135/135 from 170/135/100
* Hallucinate Cooldown increased in ranks 1 and 2 to 105/90/75 from 75/75/75
* Deceive Cooldown now triggers when leaving stealth
* Deceive cooldown reduced to 8.5 from 10 at all ranks
* Fixed a bug in which Jack in the Box would sometimes not attack monsters
* Fixed a bug where placing Jack in the Boxes atop of units caused them to spawn in unpredictable locations
* Fixed a bug in which Shaco’s clone was dealing bonus damage
* Fixed a bug where casting Hallucinate while you have the Deceive buff caused the clone to always crit


Singed

* Insanity Potion now applies an additive attack speed boost rather than multiplicative
* Fixed a bug where the duration of Poison Trail’s DoT was being affected by CC reduction effects


Twitch

* Spray and Pray Cooldown increased to 105/90/75 from 90/75/60
* Spray and Pray Attack Speed reduced to 40/60/80 from 60/100/140
* Twitch has new updated particles


Udyr

* Bear Stance Movement Speed burst decreased to 15/18/21/24/27 from 18/22/26/30/34
* While Phoenix Stance’s activation effect is active, Udyr’s ability power is increased by 24/36/48/60/72 and attack damage is increased by 12/18/24/30/36
* Monkey’s Agility’s effect will now stay stacked if you continue swapping abilities
* Monkey’s Agility Dodge Chance decreased to 4% from 6%
* Shared ability Cooldown lowered from 2.5 to 1.5
* Shared ability Cooldown will only apply to abilities with cooldowns less than it


Zilean

* Time Warp now applies a multiplicative movement speed slow rather than additive.
* Rewind Cooldown changed to 30/28/26/24/22 from 38/34/30/26/22
* Time Bomb Damage increased to 100/155/210/270/330 from 90/145/200/260/320
* Time Bomb Mana Cost decreased to 60/75/90/105/120 from 70/85/100/115/130
* Time Warp Mana Cost decreased to 100 from 110 at all ranks


Summoner Spells:

Ignite

* Ignite now also reduces the target’s healing and regeneration by 50%


Flash

* Cooldown increased to 195 from 180


Items:

Boots of Swiftness

* Reduced upgrade price to 650 from 700


Doran’s Blade

* Doran’s Blade reworked: it now gives 120 Health, +6 Attack Damage and +4% Lifesteal


Elixirs

* Elixirs are no longer lost upon pseudo-death (Guardian Angel, Chronoshift, etc.)


Madred’s Bloodrazor

* Proc damage cap against monsters reduced to 120, from 180
* Proc damage cap against champions removed (used to be 180)


Zhonya’s Ring

* Fixed a bug where the +25% Ability Power effect would persist after selling the item


General:

* The Elder Lizard and Ancient Golem (Sigil-holding) monster camps now spawn at 1:55 on the Summer and Winter versions of Summoner’s Rift
* The Dragon monster camp now spawns at 2:30 on the Summer and Winter versions of Summoner’s Rift
* The Elder Lizard camp now spawns at 2:30 on Twisted Treeline
* The Dragon monster camp on Twisted Treeline now spawns significantly later in the game
* Fixed a game client crash that occurred after champion select related to particles
* Fixed several localization related issues
* Fixed an error that would cause the game client to disconnect from PVP.net Chat and cause friend list presence update issues
* Fixed a game client crash related to Scaleform GFX creation
* Fixed a game client crash related to Scaleform drawing the in game chat
* Fixed a game client crash related to the particle manager
* Fixed a bug where Morgana’s Soul Shackle doesn’t work when applied to a champion with Mercury’s Treads equipped
* Added an option in the Game Client Options Menu to enable additional movement smoothing. This option should only be enabled if you have low latency.


Healing Reduction

* Healing reduction reduced across all abilities to 50% from 65%


Turrets

* Global Experience for the first Turret in a lane dropped to 140 from 240
* Global Experience for the second Turret in a lane dropped to 190 from 240

Refer a friend to LoL and get rewards

Need League of Legends rewards?


Well...
It has now come to that glorious time when League of Legends players the world over shall band together and tell all of their friends to come join them in combat on the Field of Justice! And why, you ask? Because we’re going to give you free stuff for doing so!

As we all know, League of Legends is more fun when you play it with your friends. And so, to encourage you to help your friends broaden their horizons, we’re going to give you rewards for getting them to sign up. Every time someone that you have referred reaches summoner level 10, you’ll be eligible for a reward. This reward can be anything from an IP boost, to a unique champion skin, to a free trip out to the Riot Office in sunny California to design your own champion.

Here’s how it works: every fifth friend that reaches level 10 will net you an IP boost that you can redeem whenever you want. In addition, every time you reach one of the following reward tiers, you will receive a unique reward.

* 10 - Tier 3 Champion
* 25 - Forum Title – “Recruiter”
* 50 - Grey Warwick Champion Skin
* 100 - The League of Legends Digital Collector’s Pack
* 150 - Forum Title – “Senior Recruiter”
* 200 - 10,000 Riot Points
* 250 - Forum Title – “Master Recruiter”
* 350 - Ultra-rare champion skin – Champion will be selected by the first player to reach this tier*
* 500 - Get your name added to the “Wall of Fame” in the Riot Office
* 1,000 - A content element will be named after your summoner
* 5,000 - All current and future content permanently unlocked
* 10,000 - All expenses paid trip to visit Riot Games and develop a champion with the Riot Design Team


So, what are you waiting for? Get out there and spread the word! You know that you all want to design your own champion with the League of Legends team. 10,000 friend referrals is child’s play for a well connected socialite such as yourself! Either that, or at least get 5 buddies to come help you earn a free IP boost!