Summoners!

To help you get the week started right, we’ve got a brand new skin for one of your favorite champions of the League. If you’re looking to give that tattoo-sporting Rogue Mage even more of his signature edge, look no further than Dark Crystal Ryze. This truly menacing new look features sharpened black spines, glowing arcane crystals, and a few new spell effects and animations!

Summoners!

This weekend, some of the top teams in League of Legends eSports will be taking to the Fields of Justice to compete in a pair of exciting tournaments: the Curse Invitational and the qualifying round for IPL 4, the next Challenger Circuit Event!

First, the qualifying round for IGN Pro League 4, the next stop on the League of Legends Challenger Circuit, continues this weekend. Featuring the top League of Legends teams in North America and Europe competing to see who will travel to Las Vegas, Nevada to take on the winners of IPL 3: Origins, this is one tournament you won’t want to miss.

Matches will be running nonstop on both Saturday, the 18th of February and Sunday the 19th of February, so be sure to tune in to the IPL channel on Twitch.tv to watch all the action happen live!

Greetings, summoners!

Another week means it’s time for some more great offers on a few skins for some of your favorite champions of the League. From Tuesday, February 21st, through Friday, February 24th, the Super Teemo, Freljord Ashe, and Galactic Renekton skins will be available for 50% off !

• Super Teemo (regularly 975 RP) will be only 487 RP!
• Freljord Ashe (regularly 520 RP) will be only 260 RP!
• Galactic Renekton (regularly 520 RP) will be only 260 RP!

After Friday, February 24th, these fantastic skins will be returning to their regular prices—so be sure to act now before it’s too late. Click on the Skins tab in the Store to take advantage of these fantastic deals.

The next stop on the League of Legends World Tour brings us to China. As one of the fastest growing markets for PC games, Chinese gamers are some of the most passionate in the world. With more and more and more titles are quickly expanding into the region, the Chinese marketplace has become a hotspot for competitive gaming. In particular, Chinese players primarily enjoy FPS, MMORPG and MOBA style games.

Although there were already well-established competitors in the region, China was quick to embrace League of Legends, citing a quick, reliable update schedule and open, responsive developers as two of their primary reasons for playing. Available as a part of China’s QQ Network – a holistic service that offers social networking, messaging and gaming services to its users – the game quickly soared to the top of the charts when the open beta began in July 2011. By the end of the year, League of Legends had become one of the fastest growing games released by a foreign game studio in the past three years.

League of Legends is also frequently represented at some of the larger gaming conventions in China, with passionate players often turning out in elaborate costumes to view the latest developments to the title. In addition to the cosplay community, a huge number of fan arts and crafts flood the Chinese League of Legends forums each and every day across a variety of media including: illustrations, sculptures and even sand art!