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Riot, after 17 years, finally adds team voice chat to League of Legends (engadget.com)

2026-09-08 | by Will Shanklin | get HyperX Cloud II gaming headset → | tags: league of legends, riot games, voice chat

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Riot is ending active development of 2XKO in December (engadget.com)

2026-08-20 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: riot games, 2xko, lux

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Riot is ending development on its League of Legends fighting game (theverge.com)

2026-08-20 | by Jay Peters | tags: league of legends, riot games, 2xko

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Riot Platforms strikes deal with Anthropic as bitcoin miners shift focus to AI infrastructure (cnbc.com)

2026-08-11 | by Tanaya Macheel | tags: riot platforms, anthropic, bitcoin mining

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Riot's always-on anti-cheat is finally getting an off switch (techspot.com)

2026-06-28 | get Riot Vanguard Gaming Keyboard → | tags: riot games, vanguard, anti-cheat

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Riot Vanguard finally drops its controversial always-on requirement for anti-cheat — new on-demand mode requires a strict Windows 11 security stack (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-25 | by Luke James | get Windows 11 Security Stack → | tags: riot vanguard, anti-cheat, windows 11

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Riot now lets you enable its anti-cheat when you want to (theverge.com)

2026-06-24 | by Jay Peters | get Riot Vanguard Gaming Mask → | tags: league of legends, valorant, riot games

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Apple among companies ordered to pay nearly $60 million in Brazil over loot boxes (9to5mac.com)

2026-06-15 | by Marcus Mendes | get Loot Box Art Book → | tags: loot boxes, apple, brazil court

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Riot Games Denies Using Anti-Cheat Software That Bricks Hackers’ Computers (futurism.com)

2026-05-25 | by Frank Landymore | get Riot Games Anti-Cheat Software → | tags: riot games, vanguard, valorant

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Valorant anti-cheat update soft-bricks $6,000 cheating hardware, company then trolls cheaters on social media — studio tweets 'congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight' (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-23 | by Zhiye Liu | get Valorant Hardware Blocker → | tags: valorant, riot games, vanguard

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League of Legends' new WASD control scheme will be enabled for ranked later this month (engadget.com)

2026-04-14 | get Gaming Mouse with Customizable Buttons → | tags: league of legends, riot games, patch 26.9

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Border Patrol Agents Sold Challenge Coins With ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Characters in Riot Gear (wired.com)

2026-04-06 | by Maddy Varner | get Custom Riot Gear Challenge Coin → | tags: border patrol, north american tour, riot gear

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Highguard is shutting down this month (theverge.com)

2026-03-03 | by Andrew Webster | get Smartwatch → | tags: highguard, wildlight entertainment, riot

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Riot Games is laying off half of the 2XKO development team (engadget.com)

2026-02-09 | get Game engine → | tags: cannon, console, game

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Riot is already cutting staff on its new fighting game (theverge.com)

2026-02-09 | by Jay Peters | get Street Fighter → | tags: cannon, changes, game

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New UEFI flaw enables pre-boot attacks on motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-19 | get BIOS → | tags: access, firmware, games

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Critical motherboard flaw allows game cheats, Riot Games blocks 'Valorant' players that don't update BIOS — security patches pushed live by all major motherboard vendors (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Jowi Morales | get BIOS → | tags: bios, boot, hardware

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League of Legends is testing a new WASD control scheme, 16 years in (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Jay Peters | get gaming keyboard → | tags: control, league, play

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Riot turns to sports betting to help fund its esports leagues (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Ash Parrish | get Rich Dad Poor Dad book → | tags: companies, esports, new

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Minecraft Competitor Hytale Shuts Down After a Decade of Development (cnet.com)

2025-10-31 | by See Full Bio | get Google Pixel → | tags: development, games, hypixel

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Riot is shutting down studio behind its Minecraft-like game (theverge.com)

2025-10-31 | by Tom Warren | get Google Pixel → | tags: donaghey, game, hypixel

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Riot Games shuts down Hypixel Studios and ends development of Hytale (engadget.com)

2025-10-31 | get Google Pixel → | tags: company, donaghey, game

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Riot Games partners with T/Squared on EMEA esports (venturebeat.com)

2025-10-31 | by Rachel Kaser | get gaming keyboard → | tags: emea, esports, games