Riot Games Archives

Riot Games maybe refusing to change their ways for their staff, but apparently, they feel a different way when it comes to League of Legends This week, game design manager David Capurro took to the game's blog to address a couple of issues within the game and the gaming community One of the biggest issues[...]

This four month team-up between Riot Games and Twitch will net League players four months of loot drops. Those loot drops will include skin shards and emotes for players to use in-game. Prime members can visit twitch.amazon.com/leagueoflegends to claim their first Rift Herald's Capsule which contains two random Skin Shards, one random Legendary Skin Shard, and an exclusive[...]

Riot Games employees walked off the job in protest of the company's stance on forced arbitration for current employees and their allegations of sexist hiring practices and gender discrimination Riot's current stance on forced arbitration means that current employees cannot take legal action against the company while still employed by the company, effectively silencing several[...]

It appears Tencent are expanding their mobile games empire a bit as it appears they're working with Riot Games for a mobile League Of Legends game The news this morning comes from Reuters, who are reporting that the two companies have worked through a strained relationship and are now finally putting together an official mobile[...]

Employees of League of Legends developer Riot Games walked out of the office in protest over the company's forced arbitration clause for current employees The arbitration clause forces all complaints against the company by current employees into private arbitration, effectively blocking the employees from suing the company Several current and former Riot employees have accused the[...]

Developers at Riot Games are planning to walk off the job this afternoon in protest of the company's attempt at forced arbitration for current employees. Kotaku reports that this will be the first walkout at a major game studio: Los Angeles-based Riot Games employees are preparing for a walkout this afternoon in protest of the company's stance[...]

Despite promises to change their corporate culture, it seems that Riot Games is backtracking on any progress made Riot Games was accused by several current and former employees of sexist hiring practices and gender discrimination last year which resulted in a lawsuit filed in November. Yesterday, Riot Games filed a motion to force two of the[...]

Leauge of Legends developer Riot Games has partnered with the Special Olympics to host a special live Stream-a-thon on Twitch. The stream is live now and is part of Special Olympics' "The Revolution is Inclusion" campaign.The goal of the campaign is to end discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities, and the stream urges viewers to sign[...]

Those six companies are Intellivision Entertainment, Natsume Inc., Riot Games, SEGA of America, THQ Nordic, and Wizards of the Coast All six will have the same rights and privileges as others currently do who sit on the ESA, as they all work together to help make the gaming industry better in certain areas like First Amendment[...]

League of Legends players in the UK are about to get a brand new competition as LVP revealed the latest entity with Riot Games in the UK League Championship Both companies are looking to develop more content in the area, both for esports and for broadcasts, and will be doing that starting on February 13th[...]

Rogue Esports and parent company ReKTGlobal announced a $10.8 million Series A funding round thanks to a group of expert investors.

League of Legends developer Riot Games has had some internal issues in the past, mostly revolving around accusations of sexist hiring practices and creating an environment where female employees are put at a disadvantage After issuing a mass apology statement on their blog, the company planned to revamp their recruitment methods and train their current staff[...]

credit//Riot Games Riot Games announced a multi-year partnership with sports marketing agency Lagardère Sports today Riot will be working with Lagardère on the League of Legends European Championship to commercialize the newly established LEC, which is the governing body for all League of Legends competitions in Europe The end goal of the partnership, however, is to see[...]

A new multi-year marketing deal has been reached between Lagardère and Riot Games for the League of Legends EU Championship The deal is basically to help promote and grow the brand in Europe after the name change, not to mention collaboration in other areas throughout Europe as both sides are knowledgable in different areas that could help[...]

You have a new champion in League of Legends as Riot Games have added Sylas to the group and make him a force to be reckoned with In what will surely be a blocked champion every match, Sylas' ultimate ability is called Hijack, which allows him to copy the ultimate of any other champion nearby[...]

https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/rioters-team-up-to-create-league-themed-prosthetic-armscredit// Riot Games Both Riot Games and 343 Industries have announced partnerships with Limbitless Solutions to provide affordable prosthetic arms for children based on their blockbuster franchises. Riot announced the partnership during the two-day passion project event for League of Legends fans, called Thunderdome While most projects range from LOL mini-games to tabletop games to improved key systems, it also[...]

Riot Games have announced that they have rebranded The European League of Legends Champion Series (EU LCS) with a whole new name The new entity will be known as the League of Legends European Championship (LEC) The rebranding shakes up the entire league as there will be ten teams competing against each other starting in mid-January[...]

League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced a partnership with Mastercard to become the first, exclusive global payment services partner for League of Legends esports events The partnership is part of a multi-year deal between Riot and Mastercard and will include LOL's three annual major esports tournaments: the world championship, all-star event, and mid-season invitational. The partnership[...]

Starting tomorrow, September 11th, Riot Games will officially launch a new event in League Of Legends called "Odyssey" The event will run until September 25th and offer players a number of opportunities to snag exclusive skins and more Here are the details courtesy of the devs, and best of luck to all of you in[...]

Riot Games released a statement today on their official blog addressing the recent allegations of sexism exposed by Kotaku at the beginning of this month In short, Riot Games was accused of sexist hiring practices and being "a place where women are treated unfairly, where the company's culture puts female employees at a disadvantage." The game[...]

As Riot Games continues to be mired in sexual harassment allegations, one of the company's higher-ups took to their own blog to address the matter on a personal level Design director Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street went to his blog and posted his own thoughts and concerns over what's been happening in the company, as well as the[...]

There's no real denying the popularity of Riot Games' League of Legends over the years, but a brand-new statistic proves the game's longevity has an impact This week, the developer's Twitch channel successfully surpassed one billion views, making it the current all-time holder for viewers on the social streaming service. Twitch itself owes a good chunk[...]

Tribeca Film Festival scaled back their video games offerings a tad this year. Rather than a full day of panels and keynote speeches by notable game directors, this year will focus on three games- Shadow of the Tomb Raider, God of War, and League of Legends.

Riot Games landed themselves in some hot water when they released information on the newest character coming to their hit franchise League of Legends, Kai'Sa Riot had announced just a few months ago that they would be moving away from the hyper-sexualized female characters trope, so when Kai'Sa's art first hit, people were naturally upset about[...]

It boasted a pedigree of a lot of the fighting game community's big names like Capcom's Seth Killian before developer Radiant Entertainment was purchased by Riot Games Riot is best known as the company behind League of Legends Shortly thereafter, Tony Cannon, the head of Radiant Entertainment, announced that Rising Thunder would cease development, but that[...]

Dan Gilbert, who is both the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers and the founder of Quicken Loans, has decided to invest in the new franchise team 100Thieves as a partner. The team reveal for 100Thieves came courtesy of a Riot Games announcement for the ten franchised teams participating in the 2018 League of Legends season Team[...]

Today, Riot Games announced all of the franchise teams being included in the League Of Legends Championship Series, and Echo Fox received one of the ten spots for the LCS. The other nine franchise teams to be included in the league are 100 Thieves, Clutch Gaming, Golden Guardians, OpTic Gaming, Team SoloMid (TSM), Cloud9, Counter Logic Gaming[...]

Probably one of the strangest lawsuits League Of Legends has ever been involved with, parent company Riot Games has lost a lawsuit in a Dutch court to former soccer player Edgar Davids Davids sued the company over using his likeness without his permission for a skin in the game The character called "Lucian" pretty much looks[...]

Twitch is also working with League of Legends developer Riot Games to time the feature with the launch of two new League of Legends champions, Xayah and Rakan, who will be playable for the first time when these features go live This marks the first time any platform has leveraged metadata from League of Legends in this fashion, ushering[...]

You'd think Riot Games would be on board to make sure competitors were treated fairly, right? You could not be more wrong! According to LOL eSports, the team are being fined $7k for contract breach of not living in a mold-infested home, and are one six-months probation from competitive play. Riot could not have missed the[...]