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Riot Games Settles Gender Discrimination Lawsuit For $100 Million. Every Female Worker Past & Present Gets $33K

December 27, 2021 Omer Altay Comments

While Blizzard Entertainment has been in the spotlight over the last year for its hostile work environment towards women, Riot Games officially settled a 2018 gender discrimination lawsuit for a whopping $100 million. While the Riot Games workplace issues have been largely off the news for the last year, they made major headlines when a Kotaku article first exposed them [...]

Riot Games Confirms Arcane Season 2, Announces New League Of Legends Spinoff Codenamed Project L

November 23, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

The first season of Arcane, Riot Game’s League of Legend-inspired animated series, came to an end this past weekend with the release of the final three episodes on Netflix. The highly-acclaimed show’s season ender was promptly met with calls for another season, which Riot CEO Nicolo Laurent assured fans was already in the works. Yay! “So yeah, we are working [...]

League Of Legends MMO Project Lead Says ‘You Won’t All Love Every Feature In It”

May 26, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

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If there’s one thing that you can count on in life, it’s that you can’t please everybody. A life lesson that Greg Street, the project lead on the unannounced and yet unnamed League of Legends MMO, is sticking to when it comes to the game’s features and design. “One thing I can say about ‘unannounced’ MMORPG is that you won’t [...]

Riot Games Is Mass-Hiring For Upcoming League Of Legends MMORPG

February 23, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

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Riot Games has put out a job posting for developers from various disciplines to join a big team working on the studio’s upcoming League of Legends-inspired MMORPG. The studio is currently pooling developers with experience in Game Engineering, Game Design, UX Design, Game Art, and Game Production. “No, you’re not dreaming, we’re working on an MMORPG based in the League [...]

Riot Games CEO Accused Of Sexual Harassment By Former Assistant

February 10, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

Riot Games is once again in the middle of another lawsuit as Sharon O’Donnell, a former employee, sues CEO Nico Laurent for sexual harassment. O’Donnell worked as Laurent’s executive assistant until she was fired in July 2020 for undisclosed reasons. VICE Games obtained a copy of the lawsuit that claimed that O’Donnell was repeatedly harassed by Laurent shortly after she [...]

Riot Games Confirms That A League Of Legends MMO Is In The Works

December 18, 2020 Marc Marasigan Comments

After putting down rumors for several years, Riot Games has finally confirmed that they’re working on a League of Legends MMO. The confirmation comes by way of a tweet from Riot’s Head of Creative Development, Greg Street. In the tweet, Street said that he’s leading a big project to expand the LoL universe. When asked about the project, he confirmed [...]

Riot Games Acquires Hypixel Studios (Studio Behind Hytale)

April 16, 2020 Omer Altay Comments

Riot Games, the studio best known for League of Legends and now Valorant, announced that they acquired Hypixel Studios, the company developing Hytale, a Minecraft inspired game. Hytale is set to launch sometime in 2021, and with Riot's backing, could compete with Minecraft. Hytale - Announcement TrailerWatch this video on YouTube “We’ve known the team behind Hypixel Studios for several [...]

Video Game Companies Launch #PlayApartTogether Campaign Against COVID-19

March 30, 2020 Marc Marasigan Comments

Here’s today’s dose of COVID-19-related MMO and gaming news. Eighteen game companies, including Activision Blizzard, Riot Games, Unity, and Twitch among others, have teamed up with the World Health Organization to launch the #PlayApartTogether campaign in an effort to combat the spread of the deadly virus. “It’s never been more critical to ensure people stay safely connected to one another,” [...]

COVID-19 Threat Forces More Gaming And Tech Companies To Cancel Their Events

March 4, 2020 Marc Marasigan Comments

The gaming industry continues to feel the effects of the COVID-19 virus as six more gaming and tech companies announce the cancellation of their events as a precaution against the novel coronavirus. Epic Games has cancelled Unreal Fest Europe 2020 in Prague; Riot Games abandons their planned Valorant hands-on event this month; Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2020, which was [...]

Women’s Rights Lawyer Genie Harrison Takes Over Riot Games Discrimination Lawsuit

February 24, 2020 Marc Marasigan Comments

It seems that the Riot Games discrimination lawsuit is far from over as the plaintiffs Gabriela Downie, Melanie McCracken, and Jessica Negron back down from their $10 million settlement agreement with Riot and hires women’s rights and sexual harassment attorney Genie Harrison as their new legal counsel along with employment lawyer Joseph Lovretovich. Genie Harrison is known for handling some [...]

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