The 2019 World Championships will be hosted in Europe, marking the third time the even has been hosted in Europe and the last since 2015. Meanwhile the other stages of the tournament will be hosted in other cities, much like in previous World Championships, which will be announced later. This will be the 10th ever League of Legends World Championship, so it’s headed back to one of the game’s biggest fan bases. The 2021 World Championships will be headed back to North America for the first time s

Play-In Stages for the 2018 World Championship may be over, but that doesn’t mean that the Lol Park is closing. Take the escalator up to floor three, and you should be at Lol Park. The closest line is the blue line, line one. The second closest line is the purple line, line five. The farthest stop (while still being convenient), is on the green line, line two.

We’ve been waiting to see what Riot Games was going to do for this year’s League of Legends World Championship opening ceremony for a while now with 2017’s being so explosive. On Thursday evening, the company announced that the opening ceremony will be performed at by The Glitch Mob, Mako, The Word Alive and Bobby from K-pop group iKon. This doesn’t come as too much of a surprise because Bobby performed a remix of Rise that was released Wednesday evening. Riot’s post on the Opening Ceremony note

Worlds may still have a couple of weekends left before a new champion is crowned, but All-Stars is hot on its heels. In fact, just today, All-Star voting for most major regions closed, and that means we know which two players will be in Las Vegas later this year. As a brief refresher on the format of this year’s games, each team will send two pro players and two streamers to the event, where they will all compete in a variety of competitions. With all the pro players revealed, the only thing we

Like, for instance, G2 Esports, the third seed of the EU LCS, taking down tournament favorites Royal Never Give Up, in the largest upset in Worlds history. In order to try to make sense of the calamity that we witnessed over the weekend, let’s take a look back at the Worlds 2018 quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, however, Yu found his groove and his incredible performances on Xayah helped push IG to the next level. Royal Never Give Up vs G2 Esports, G2 Esports wins 3-2This was supposed to be R

The Group Stage for Worlds 2018 was one of the most memorable ever. From tiebreakers and upsets to western hopes and Korean disappointment, this group stage had just about everything fans could have hoped for. But now that it’s over, it’s time for the biggest matches of the tournament to begin with the Knockout Stage. Members of the same group last stage also had to be positioned on the opposite side of the bracket from each other in the Knockout Stage. Each match of the Knockout Stage will be a

While this is our last Lightning Round for Worlds and you’re probably already hip to how this works, here’s our final explainer. The Rift Herald: Have you been challenged with that since you came to Korea? Bwipo: Either Hylissang cause he’s really funny or Caps cause he’s really funny or Broxah cause that guy’s awesome. Rekkles would be cool cause I’d get to know him better and Soaz would be cool cause we could talk top lane. If you could be Aatrox and go around ending worlds that’s pretty cool.

The Rift Herald: I have food I don’t eat! Candice: I’m trying to be experience the pro gamer’s life. [laughs] I’m trying to, though. Candice: I don’t know. Candice: I don’t know!

We were blessed with the opportunity to see what’s going on in top laner Song “Smeb” Kyung-ho’s head in a quick Lightning Round. Our Lightning Round questions all come from various sources: fans, other media, players and more. The Rift Herald: Really?? The Rift Herald: Are you not having fun now? The Rift Herald: And what’s your answer to that?

Batman: The Animated Series is getting a belated 25th anniversary present: a remastered Blu-ray release of the entire series and two feature films. But Batman: The Animated Series had even more going for it than a slew of great writers, designers and animators. “Robin’s Reckoning,” parts 1 and 2Even before the show upgraded him to Nightwing, Batman: The Animated Series depicted Batman and Robin in the twilight of their partnership, but in “Robin’s Reckoning,” the creative team shows us its dawn.

Electronic Arts and DICE revealed more about Battlefield 5’s War Stories, where the game’s single-player campaign will play out, in a new trailer today. Battlefield 5’s War Stories will follow the anthology format that DICE employed in Battlefield 1, telling stories of the men and women who fought in World War II’s globe-spanning theaters of war. Back in June, DICE revealed the first of those stories, “Nordlys,” which takes place in 1943 during the German occupation of Norway and focuses on a yo

Fortnite’s newest patch (version 6.10) is here and there are a few standout additions to the game this time around. The other big addition in this patch is in-game tournaments, which will be hosted through the game’s new events tab. Here are the full patch notes for Fortnite v6.10:Weapons & ItemsThe Port-a-Fortress has been disabled as we work to resolve some issues related to this item. You can now view and change Edit Controls separately from Combat and Build Controls in the controller menu. T

A new storyline for Spider-Man on PlayStation 4 launches next week, kicking off a series of story-based downloadable content for the game. The City That Never Sleeps’ first chapter launches Oct. 23, and can be bought on its own for $9.99. The entire set of DLC costs $24.99 and guarantees the rest of the content that’s still to come. But all Spider-Man players can look forward to an update for the game that adds new modes to the game. Update: Insomniac Games has clarified that the update containi

Sony Interactive Entertainment has addressed a bug in the PlayStation Network’s messaging system that caused PlayStation 4 consoles to crash over the weekend, according to the company. We’ve sent an email to Sony asking for clarification on the PSN messages situation and will update when the company responds. Over the weekend, PS4 users reported that a text-message exploit was crashing their consoles, requiring a factory reset to get the unit working again. According to those reports, PSN accoun

During his quest, we pulled him into an interview room for a quick Rift Herald Lightning Round. WildTurtle was pretty excited to join us for a Lightning Round and blasted through a ton of questions at top speed. The Rift Herald: So as long as you have something to protect yourself? The Rift Herald: That’s definitely why your stomach hurts, not because you shake it! WildTurtle: I’ve never picked up a girl with a pick-up line in my life.

Jeon “Ray” Ji-won, who formerly played in North America, joined us for a Lightning Round. Ray: It’s a really hard question but if I had to choose, I’ll do Camille. Ray: I don’t shake it, because if you shake it, there’s foam, so it’s hard to drink it. Ray, in English: But Camille is really boosted champion. Ray: I think China is a good country to play, especially because there is a lot of League of Legends.

What Star Wars lore can tell us about the new live-action series, The MandalorianShare What Star Wars lore can tell us about the new live-action series, The MandalorianThe Mandalorian. Then, a single line in Star Wars: The Clone Wars changed thirty years of preconceptions. That is, until a young Mandalorian rebel named Sabine Wren (introduced in the Star Wars: Rebels cartoon series) recovered the Darksaber. And considering Mandalore’s rocky history in the modern Star Wars universe thus far, a lo

LCK’s Afreeca Freecs turned their rough Worlds 2018 start into a major success story, taking the first seed from Group A on the sixth day of Worlds. We grabbed jungler Lee “Mowgli” Jae-ha for a celebratory Lightning Round. Our Lightning Rounds are filled with questions from players, fans, press, Vox Media employees and myself. Mowgli: I would travel back six years with my current skills and abilities, become the top player and become famous. Mowgli: Probably a moment where your team’s not perfor

At the end of The Last Crusade, Indiana Jones reaches for his father’s hand instead of the world’s most famous antique artifact. It’s the final, transformative test for a man who has spent his life worshipping idols. In his youth, he labored after the man’s respect (or at least getting his dad to look at him when they talked). At the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, he’s given the choice between destroying the Ark of the Covenant and letting it fall into Nazi control. By the end of The Last Crusa