Greetings Summoners,

I’m pleased to report that the long-awaited (fabled? mythical?) League of Legends Mac client is almost ready, and it’s heading into open beta soon™.

And by soon™, I mean that it’s available right now on the Public Beta Environment. Open beta, which will allow anyone to access the live servers on Macs, will follow after we’re confident in the results from the PBE test.

To make this happen, we’ve been hard at work: Riot engineers re-wrote a lot of the underlying game engine so that both PC and Mac platforms share the same code base and assets. This means Mac players will receive all future features, bug fixes, and new content at the same time as PC users.

While we aren't quite ready for a full open beta launch, we wanted to share the Mac client with PBE players to help us find bugs and give feedback.

Download the Mac PBE client here, patch up, and log in to help us make the Mac League of Legends experience as awesome as possible!

Thanks to the Mac community for your extraordinary patience – and a very special thanks to a particularly astounding group of folks who helped many of you play League via an unofficial client over the past months.

Best,

Steve "Udyr" Mieczkowski

P.S. Huge thanks to the Cross Platform team for their hard work!

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Nice, thank you!

I knew it! I knew when I saw "iBlitzcrank" in the PBE files...this is what that skin is for!

This is the quckiest soon™ i've ever seen.

I'm really happy about this, but the client won't start in my mac, what is happening?

Can't give t his nearly enough love. Thank you very much for all your hard work on this.

Did you guys use any code/help from the Boompje crew for this?

Also, any chance on opening up PBE signups so us Mac users can try this out?

I'm so excited! I just can't deny it! \^.^/

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Cross platform gaming is always a good thing! Kudos to you guys at Riot and all your awesome effort and hard work!

Especially the part about identical code bases. There is nothing better than reducing complexity!