Riot Games is taking eSports very seriously. Brandon Beck, CEO and co-founder of the company behind the world’s most popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, League of Legends, promises that Season Three will deliver even more cash and prizes than the $5 million Season Two.
For the Championship Series broadcasts for the North American league, Riot Games is building out a TV studio where all of the regular season matches will be filmed and broadcast. Riot Games is working with Reality Check Systems, a production company that works with the NHL, NFL, MLB, Golf Channel, and NCAA Basketball on sporting events.
TNS: "A League of Legends game mode, Arena, will return with some major changes that may breathe some life for a stagnant game."
ESTNN writes: "Hwei, LeBlanc and Ryze stand above the rest as the strongest players in the League of Legends 14.8 mid-lane due to substantial buffs in their scaling, base damage and crowd control (CC) respectively."
Do you remember the League of Legends MMORPG previously teased by Riot Games? Its development has been fully rebooted and it'll take "likely several years" before you hear any more news about it.
