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League of Legends Virtual K-Pop Group K/DA Reemerge After 6 Years of Silence With New Single and Music Video From the Makers of Arcane
After six years of silence, Riot Games' League of Legends-themed virtual K-pop girl group, K/DA, has returned with Firestarter, a comeback single created by the animation studio behind Arcane.
Riot Games to Pull League of Legends Classic After Five Months, May Return as Limited-Time Mode
League of Legends Classic launched in July 2026, but Riot says that "most [players] have gone back to other parts of League" The post Riot Games to Pull League of Legends Classic After Five Months, May Return as Limited-Time Mode appeared first on This Week in Videogames - TWIV.
Riot Games has announced the end League of Legends Classic as an on-going mode, just three months after its release
League of Legends Classic, the recreation of an older version of the popular MOBA, will be taken down at the end of the current season. The reason given is simple: most players have moved on to other areas of League of Legends.
League of Legends Classic will become a thing of the past in January 2027, though it may one day be resurrected as a limited-time event
The classic mode rolled out in League of Legends earlier this year will cease to be a permanent addition once the calendar flips over into 2027, ending a fairly brief nostalgia run, devs Riot have announced. The mode, offering a version of the MOBA mirroring its early days, only debuted in July. It might come back in a different form down the line, but Riot have found that there isn't enough of a prolonged appetite for days gone by to be worth propping up something akin to the classic modes seen
Riot quickly backpedals on paid old-school skins in League of Legends Classic after backlash
"Let's talk about the elephant on the rift."
Classic LoL now actually looks like Classic with new base skin changes on PBE and Katarina switch-up
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League of Legends Classic players clash against old-school skin cosmetics, as the faithfulness of the new game mode is called into question
League of Legends Classic has been revealed in earnest by Riot Games. A recreation of an older MOBA experience, League Classic is taking core moments from the early seasons and merging them together, though some players are already raising eyebrows at one aspect: the champion skins.
'There's Real Nostalgia There' — Riot Has Unveiled League of Legends Classic, but Don't Expect a One-to-One Recreation of the Old Times
Riot Games has unveiled League of Legends Classic, a new version of its phenomenally successful MOBA designed to tap into nostalgia for the game as it was over 15 years ago.
The 'Classic' nostalgia trend continues as League of Legends Classic gets a release date and the promise of player-voted patches
We know Riot Games is remaking League of Legends in 2027, but the 16-year-old MOBA is also getting a nostalgic throwback 'Classic' release, and now we have a release date for it.
All League of Legends Classic Champions confirmed so far
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League of Legends' 'classic' mode has a release date, and it isn't just an old version of the game—players will vote on new patches, Old School RuneScape-style
It's a blend of eras, but fan favorite builds are back.
Riot delays 'last hit indicators' in League of Legends ranked mode after fan response: 'We want to get more data and feedback'
"We’ll keep them enabled, but off by default, for swiftplay, co-op vs AI, and normal draft."
Riot teases League of Legends Classic, with a full reveal coming in two weeks
"Is it season one? Is it season four?"
League of Legends' Vanguard anti-cheat finally gets the option to only run when you fire up a game, as Riot roll out "on-demand sessions" for "sufficiently secured" PCs
League of Legends and Valorant developers Riot Games have added an optional "on demand" mode to their Vanguard anti-cheat software. With this new mode enabled, Vanguard will only run when you fire up a game it needs to be active for, duly shutting down once you exit said game. Up until now, the only option has been the default one: having Vanguard start up the moment you turn your PC on, then run in the background until you shut down.
League of Legends won't be following the trend of having tons of collaboration skins: 'The second you do [it], the tone of your game completely changes'
Riot is "pretty *not* open" to the idea of third-party skins.
League of Legends Locks In MSI and Worlds 2026 Formats, Dates, and Host Cities
LoL MSI and Worlds 2026: Formats, Dates & Host Cities
League of Legends Locks In MSI and Worlds 2026 Formats, Dates, and Host Cities
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PEGI Starts Upping Age Ratings on Digital-Only Titles With “Paid Random Items” Like Overwatch and League of Legends
Existing digital-only games with loot box-like mechanics and PEGI 3, 7, or 12 ratings will get a 'PEGI 16 — Paid random items' classification The post PEGI Starts Upping Age Ratings on Digital-Only Titles With “Paid Random Items” Like Overwatch and League of Legends appeared first on This Week in Videogames - TWIV.
Riot now lets you enable its anti-cheat when you want to
If League of Legends and Valorant players have the right hardware and elect to opt into "pre-boot security mechanisms and Windows' own native protection features," then, starting today, they can switch the Vanguard anti-cheat software from always-on to one that's "on demand." With "Vanguard Pre-Check," the kernel-level driver won't launch when your system does, according to a blog post from Phillip Koskinas, Riot's head of anti-cheat. Riot is able to introduce this new feature now after working