As with many online games, players will look for any advantage they can to win, including using hacks, cheats and unintentional loopholes in game code. Riot Games isn't taking too kindly to cheaters in its League of Legends game, and those violators are feeling the developer's wrath.

Read more: Action planned against 'scum of the earth cheaters' »

League of Legends has earned a name for itself as a kind of spectator sport -- as the packed crowds at trade shows and broadcast highlights would indicate. So it only makes sense that Riot Games' next update will include a full-fledged spectator mode.

Read more: Spectator mode details and features »

Developer Riot Games has revealed new details for the newest update to its free-to-play title League of Legends. The major update will focus on improving bot intelligence in and attempt to make the game's co-op vs. AI modes more engaging.

Watch: Riot Games discuss the update »

If the string of developers making the same game with the exact same map weren't a big enough hint that the MOBA--Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, or 'DotA clone' to you and me--is getting big, the genre's now getting its very own mouse. Peripheral maker Razer yesterday at CES announced the Naga Hex, packing six extra buttons designed for your Doting pleasure.

Read more: Buttons for Dota players »

With season one firmly in the books, League of Legends has now launched season two. The second round of competitive gaming introduces a significantly bigger prize pool spread across various events, and developer Riot Games will be broadcasting highlights through its Web site throughout the event.

Watch: League of Legends season two launch trailer »

League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced that the game is averaging over four million players per day, double the player base that it reported just four months ago. This includes a peak of 1.3 million concurrent players, and 11.5 million active monthly players, and 30 million registered players.

Read more: New tournament to offer $2 million to winning team »

If you need a LoL in a jiffy, help is at hand. Developer Riot Games today launched the new capture & hold Dominion mode for League of Legends, which aims to deliver shorter and more intense round of the free-to-play multiplayer tactical action-RPG.

Watch: Riot explains Dominion mode »

Last month, we reported that Riot Games' free-to-play, action-RPG League of Legends would be getting a new game mode called "Dominion," soon. It's not yet time for the mode's official release, but Riot has announced that a limited beta test for the new mode is beginning today.

Read more: LoL: Dominion beta »

The Mac version of League of Legends, which began semi-public testing last year, is to be discontinued this week following trouble keeping it up to date with the PC edition. Developer Riot Games still hopes to bring the DotA-'em up to Mac in the future, but it won't be any time soon.

Read more: Mac version was slow to update »

The new capture & hold mode Dominion coming "soon" to the free-to-play Legend of Legends is shown off in a new trailer, mixing gameplay snippets with 'behind-the-scenes' chat from folks at developer Riot Games. The new mode is intended to give shorter, sharper bursts of LoL.

Watch: Dominion gameplay and chat »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features a multiplayer trailer for Driver: San Francisco, a how-to video for Warlords, a champion spotlight for League of Legends, a launch trailer for We Dance, a question and answer session for FIFA Soccer 12, two new trailers for Star Wars: The Old Republic, new screenshots for Dishonored, and new screenshots for Wargame: European Escalation.

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A new form of competition is coming to League of Legends: a capture-and-hold mode named "Dominion," developer Riot Games announced today. Taking place on a new map, Dominion aims to deliver short, action-packed games.

Riot calls Dominion "a rapid-fire alternative to the more strategic, measured pace of Summoner's Rift," with rounds clocking in at around twenty minutes. It also notes that "late-game comebacks are possible and the outcome is always in question," which is always rousing.

Watch: Dominion mode in action »

Today's Filter includes a wrathful new cinematic trailer for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, a gameplay trailer for the indie Serious Sam Double D, a champion spotlight for League of Legends, a closed beta announcement trailer for Realm of the Titans, a magical behind-the-scenes trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, an announcement trailer for Nicktoons MLB, a launch trailer for From Dust, two new creature trailers for All Zombies Must Die, and a teaser trailer for Kung-Fu High Impact.

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To celebrate the end of League of Legends' first competitive season, developer Riot Games has released a few statistics on the free-to-play's game player base. Over 15 million accounts have been registered since it launches in October 2010, with an average of 1.4 million playing every day and a peak of 500,000 playing at the same time.

READ MORE: How many rounds are played every day? »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features a pile of new media. Check out new content for Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, Total War: Shogun 2, NeoGAF's Dudebro, Elements of War, Okamiden, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Painkiller - Redemption, Shoot Many Robots, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Testament of Sherlock, MLB 11: The Show, Cities in Motion, Realm of the Titans, Rango The Video Game, League of Legends, NASCAR The Game 2011, and Naval War: Arctic Circle. Read more »