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League of Legends to blend genres.

Riot Games has unveiled League of Legends, a competitive online game attempting to blend RPG and RTS gameplay.

The idea is to occupy the persistent role of a Summoner (RTS general), who watches battles from a far and participates in them through Champion units, which gain levels, unlock abilities and gather items by being active.

Then, eventually, the Summoner will also gain rank, unlocking its own array of abilities to unleash on enemies.

Clans, statistics, rankings, anti-cheat systems and all the necessary features of an online PC game will be included. And Riot Games is even adding a single-player bot mode for people who do silly things like practice.

LOL (what a wonderful acronym) sounds rather like Warcraft III mod Defence of the Ancients, then - and looks like it. But that's no surprise, seeing as staff from Riot Games made the mod.

League of Legends is due for beta testing next year. Until then, pop into our League of Legends gallery for the very first shots.

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hulahoops #1 3 years ago

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What's a far?

;P
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thepaddedcell #2 3 years ago

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"Then, eventually, the Summer will also gain rank, unlocking its own array of abilities to unleash on enemies."

Like Sunburn, and unexpected Thunder Storms!
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Orange #3 3 years ago

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an mmo DoTA?

Could be interesting.
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BiscuitBase #4 3 years ago

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I'm so glad to see another MMO game that follows the "X of Y" naming convention.

Edited by 2 at 07/10/08 @ 15:37
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Nithron #5 3 years ago

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On the other hand, at least it's not a turn-based fantasy grindfest.
Or a turn-based sci-fi grindfest.
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Scorillo #6 3 years ago

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There are already Atiantica Online in Open Beta and starting in 2 weeks
Free to play and same ideea
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viper_h #7 3 years ago

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I'm developing an MMO. It's called Hype of Shitgames.
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Rirekon #8 3 years ago

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Be nice to see this actually work, DreamLords attempted something similar but it didn't really click.
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Chufty #9 3 years ago

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LOL, TLAs.
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makeamazing #10 3 years ago

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You have to wonder where all these new MMO users are going to come from to make these games successful). YAMMO - Yet another MMO
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curtlikesmeat #11 3 years ago

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The acronym is made of win, but if I guess that's the thing that was most interesting this probably isn't going to get a second look from me.
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