League of Legends remains one of the most popular games used for esports (professional gaming) in the world.
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Lil Nas X stars at League of Legends Worlds opening ceremony
More than five million people (plus an unknown number of viewers watching livestreams in China) watched the final matches of the League of Legends Worlds 2022.
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Imagine Dragons star at League of Legends World Championship
This weekend saw the biggest esports event in the world’s 2021 edition: the League of Legends World Championship.
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League of Legends World Championship kicks off with KDA in AR
Surprisingly, a whizzy augmented reality performance including a virtual star zooming onto the stage on a motorbike *wasn’t* the strangest sight for western viewers of the League of Legends World […]
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Riot Games created a new virtual influencer called Seraphine
Last month we reported on Riot Games, the publisher of esports game League of Legends, launching a new track for its virtual pop group K/DA.
What we hadn’t spotted, then, was a cover of the group’s past hit ‘Pop/Stars’ by an influencer called Seraphine, which was released a couple of weeks ago.
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League Of Legends K-Pop group K/DA return with new track
Hot on the heels of announcing a big partnership with Spotify, the publisher of esports hit League of Legends is bringing its virtual K-Pop group K/DA back with new music.
Riot Games launched K/DA two years ago as a group of avatar characters – each voiced by a real singer. Their debut live performance at the League of Legends World Championship in 2018, with all manner of augmented-reality whizziness, has been watched more than 40m times on YouTube, while the official video for that track (‘Pop/Stars’) has more than 366m views.
Anyway, now K/DA are back, still with two members of real K-Pop group (G)I-DLE providing vocals for two of the characters. The new track is called ‘The Baddest’, and it comes ahead of a full EP with the same title, to be released later this year.
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Spotify’s first esports partnership is with Riot Games
Spotify has announced its first marketing partnership in the esports world, and it’s with one of its biggest players: Riot Games, the publisher of League of Legends.
“Spotify is also now the official — and exclusive — audio-streaming partner for League of Legends global events,” announced Spotify.
What does that mean? For starters there will be a dedicated League of Legends hub on Spotify gathering music (the game’s soundtrack already has more than 4.8 million monthly Spotify listeners), podcasts and playlists around the game.
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League of Legends game spawns a chart-topping metal band
We’ve written about League of Legends a few times recently in our coverage of the esports industry: the game, developed by Riot Games, has become one of the most popular titles in the world of competitive gaming.
But it has also spawned a fictional metal band that are taking the real-world charts by storm. The Guardian has a good explainer on how Pentakill – members: Karthus the Deathsinger, Yorick, Sona, Olaf and Mordekaiser the Master of Metal – have topped the iTunes metal rankings as well as breaking into the Billboard top 40.