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Riftbound T1 2025 Worlds Champion Player Bundle Draw Dates & Price

The Riftbound T1 2025 Worlds Champion Player Bundle is returning to celebrate the start of League of Legends Worlds 2026. This popular bundle was highly desirable during its first run, and now you have another chance to bag it, but you'll need to enter a draw to earn the right to purchase it.

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Riot resurrected 3 of its biggest League of Legends pop groups, but only one emerged victorious

Critical Hit(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on the PC Gamer team) celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle.Despite my experience with League of Legends (the videogame) being incredibly minimal, I've spent...

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Abelina is a strange, platforming romp through a natural afterlife from a former League of Legends animator and the composer of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil

I have no particular thoughts on what the afterlife may look like, namely because if there is one, and I'm allowed to hang out in it, I don't want to be disappointed. What if I have the expectation that it's a hedonistic paradise and am met with only having a guy named Gary who only eats cheese sandwiches for company?...

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Here Are Our Impressions Of Riftbound Radiance

Riftbound has grown exponentially in 2026, and the game is on the verge of joining the conversation with Magic: The Gathering, PokΓ©mon, and Yu-Gi-Oh!, even though it hasn't been around nearly as long. Part of this incredible growth comes from being based on a hugely popular video game that's been around since 2009, but...

5 days ago πŸ‘ 42
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Riot is finally changing Mel's reflect, but I'm going to miss League of Legends' most busted mechanic

Mel's W is, perhaps, the most broken League of Legends mechanic ever made. I remember the good ol' days of launch Yuumi supremacy, but Mel's Rebuttal is easily one of the most powerful abilities in the game, allowing you to reflect any projectile straight back at the champion who threw it. There are some quick [...]

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KDA's Firestarter is the throwback to OG League of Legends that we needed

Yes, folks, you read that right. The leaks and the rumors were, in fact, true: K/DA is back, and man, are they stylin'. Ahri, Akali, Evelynn, and Kai'Sa are looking a bit different this time around, courtesy of some red and black visuals brought to life in the style of League of Legends' hit Netflix [...]

1 week ago πŸ‘ 56
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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. Read more

2 weeks ago πŸ‘ 55
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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...

2 weeks ago πŸ‘ 57
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Riot has already called time on League of Legends Classic, will turn it into an event instead

Riot has just killed League of Legends Classic, less than three months after it began. The throwback version of the MOBA attempted to roll back the clock, putting on rose-tinted glasses to tickle the nostalgia of those early years. From the very early stages, however, it was clear the developer wasn't quite sure what i...

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3 months after launch, Riot announces League of Legends Classic will be killed in January: 'most have gone back to other parts of League'

League of Legends Classic was Riot's attempt to capitalise on nostalgia for vintage-era LoL. It stripped away most of the champions and kits introduced since 2013, reverted to an older version of the Summoner's Rift map, and promised to roll out "new" old Champions at a faster clip than in the olden days. But the nosta...

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Riot Games Announces Upcoming Change to League Classic

League of Legends developer Riot Games confirmed that the popular League Classic mode would end its current run once Season 3 of 2026 concludes due to most players going back to other game modes. In short, Classic is an official League of Legends game mode that recreates the gameplay and character balance from the hit...

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How a League of Legends champion becomes a Riftbound card

Ever wondered how your favorite League of Legends character is converted from an avatar powered by your twitch reflexes and perfect awareness into a playing piece for the budding TCG Riftbound? On the face of it, lane-based MOBAs and strategy card games share little DNA, so it seems like transporting the mechanics from...

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