Riot walks back unpopular League of Legends changes: Hextech Chests are coming back, and the Blue Essence cost for new champions will be cut in half

Riot Games says recent changes to League of Legends’ reward system “didn’t hit the mark for everyone,” and so it’s bringing Hextech Chests back and reducing the Blue Essence cost for new champions by half. Riot said in a January update that League’s reward systems had “become needlessly complex, with an excessive number of currencies,…

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Bungie’s lawyers have to use fan videos of old Destiny 2 content in court because, well, it doesn’t exist in-game anymore

Last October a science fiction author, Matthew Kelsey Martineau, launched a lawsuit against Bungie focused on a Destiny 2 enemy faction, the Red Legion, which Martineau alleges is based on work from his WordPress blog (Thanks, GameFile). Naturally something on the scale of Destiny 2 faces all sorts of speculative lawsuits, and this didn’t seem…

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Following Monolith’s shock closure, GOG is offering 90% off its 2005 shooter FEAR and accelerating the game’s preservation to recognise its doomed developer’s ‘contribution to gaming’

Yesterday, Warner Bros announced it was closing Monolith Productions in a “strategic change of direction”. A studio with a 30-year legacy, Monolith’s games include Blood, No One Lives Forever, Tron 2.0, Condemned: Criminal Origins, and more recently its excellent Middle-earth tie-ins Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War, which introduced the remarkable Nemesis System. Amid…

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