Riot Games

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Riot Games, Inc.

logo
legal form Corporation
founding 2006
Seat West Los Angeles , California
management Nicolo Laurent (CEO)

Dylan Jadeja (President)
Scott Gelb (COO)
Emily Winkle (Chief People Officer)
Brandon Beck (Co-Chairman)
Marc Merrill (Co-Chairman)

Number of employees Error in expression: Unexpected operator> Error in expression: Unexpected operator>> 2,500 (estimated in 2020)
sales   USD 1.6 billion (2015 forecast)
Branch Computer game industry
Website www.riotgames.com

Riot Games is an American computer game - development company based in West Los Angeles .

The company developed the MOBA League of Legends , which was released in Europe and North America on October 27, 2009. Since purchasing the last company shares in December 2015, Riot Games has been a subsidiary of the Chinese internet company Tencent .

history

Riot Games, Inc. was founded as an indie game developer in 2006 by Brandon "Ryze" Beck and Marc "Tryndamere" Merrill in Los Angeles . The company announced their only game until 2013: League of Legends: Clash of Fates and released it in 2009 under the title League of Legends . The game is based on a free-to-play model, supported by microtransactions.

Riot Games has been hosting the League of Legends World Championships since 2011.

In 2008, Riot Games received $ 7 million from Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital. In 2009, Riot Games received $ 8 million from the original two donors and from Chinese technology company Tencent . In 2011 Tencent obtained a majority stake in Riot Games for a purchase price of $ 231,465,000.

Some of the employees at Riot Games are veterans of Defense of the Ancients (the template for League of Legends ) and Blizzard Entertainment, for example the former developer Steve "Guinsoo" Feak, the former founder of the website DotA-Allstars.com Steve "Pendragon" Mescon and Greg Street , former World of Warcraft Lead Systems Designer .

In 2013, the Business Insider website listed Riot Games at number 4 in the list of The 25 best technology companies to work for in 2013 .

Riot Games headquarters in West Los Angeles

The headquarters of Riot Games has been West Los Angeles since November 2013 , there are also branches in Berlin , Brighton , Dublin , Hong Kong , Istanbul , Los Angeles , Mexico City , New York , St. Louis , Santiago de Chile , São Paulo , Shanghai , Sydney , Taipei and Tokyo .

At the end of 2015, Tencent acquired all shares in Riot Games.

At the end of 2016, Riot Games brought their first board game Mechs vs. Minions , which is a cooperative board game for 2-4 players, and Riot Morello, Lead Designer for Research & Development at Riot Games, wrote in 2015 that new games were being worked on.

On October 16, 2019, as part of Riot Games' 10-year League of Legends birthday event, a number of future games were announced: Legends of Runeterra (an online trading card game for PC and mobile devices), Project A (a tactical Shooter, later announced as Valorant ), Project L (a fighting game), Project F and a League of Legends eSports manager . A mobile version of LoL called League of Legends: Wild Rift , as well as a mobile version of Teamfight Tactics (release in March 2020) and an animation series called Arcane were also announced.

On April 16, 2020, Riot Games announced that it had acquired Hypixel Studios , the developer of the Minecraft- like game Hytale .

Games and other productions

title year month genre platform
League of Legends 2008 September Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) Windows / Mac
Astro Teemo 2013 March Arcade Windows / Mac
Cho'gath Eats the World 2013 April Arcade Windows / Mac
Blitzcrank's Poro Roundup 2015 August Side scroller iOS / Android / Flash
Mechs vs. minions 2016 October Board game Board game
Teamfight Tactics 2019 June Auto battler Windows / Mac / iOS / Android
Legends of Runeterra 2020 April Online trading card game Windows / Mac / iOS / Android
Valorant 2020 June Hero-based tactical shooter Windows
League of Legends: Wild Rift 2020 Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) iOS / Android
Project L (working title) Fighting Game
Project F (working title)
Super fantasy eSports manager game Web browser
Arcane ( animation series ) 2021

distribution

Riot Games released League of Legends in Latin America, Australia, USA, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Europe, Brazil, Indonesia and Japan. In China, Tencent , Riot Games' largest shareholder, is selling the game online. In Southeast Asia, the MOBA is distributed by the Garena company.

Riot Games originally signed an international license partnership with GOA in Europe . After an eight-month partnership, Riot announced in May 2013 that it would take over the distribution of the game in Europe. As a result, they opened the European headquarters in Dublin .

Riot Games' parent company Tencent has been selling a mobile version of League of Legends called King of Glory in China since 2015 . In Europe, North America and Korea Tencent distributes the game Arena of Valor , which can also be seen as a mobile version of League of Legends .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Riot Games president defends company against accusations of greed . In: Polygon , January 1, 2014. Retrieved November 1, 2014. 
  2. ↑ Mike Snider: 'League of Legends' makes big league moves . USA Today . July 11, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  3. ↑ Gaudiosi, John: ESports Are Driving Digital Video Game Sales . In: Fortune . January 27, 2016.
  4. ^ Riot Games: Interactive Timeline . Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 17, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / timeline.leagueoflegends.com
  5. ↑ Tencent purchases remaining shares in Riot Games to hold 100% of equity . ( thescoreesports.com [accessed November 4, 2018]).
  6. ↑ a b Kath Brice: Blizzard developers join Riot Games' online title . GamesIndustryInternational. June 25, 2009. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  7. ^ Anthony Gallegos: Riot Games' League of Legends Announced . 1UP.com . October 7, 2008. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 16, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.1up.com
  8. ^ Leigh Alexander: Riot Games Get a $ 7M Launch . Kotaku. July 10, 2008. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  9. ↑ Riot Games Raises $ 8 million . PE hub. September 9, 2009. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  10. ^ Tencent 2011 Interim Report . Tencent. Archived from the original on March 8, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 29, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tencent.com
  11. ^ Cliff Edwards: Tencent Acquires Majority Stake in Riot Games to Expand in US . February 4, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  12. ↑ Steve Mescon hints bringing DotA-AllStars.com back online . Neutral creeps. July 5, 2011. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  13. ↑ MMO Champion - Ghostcrawler is Now Lead Game Designer at Riot Games. In: www.mmo-champion.com. Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
  14. ↑ LinkedIn: Greg Street. Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Megan Rose Dickey: The 25 Best Tech Companies To Work For In 2013 . Business Insider. July 12, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  16. ^ Riot Games Moving to Huge New Campus in 2015 - IGN. Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
  17. ^ Riot Games: Jobs at Riot . Retrieved October 17, 2013.
  18. ↑ League of Legends - Developer Riot Games completely taken over by Tencent - GameStar. GameStar.de, accessed on December 17, 2015 .
  19. ↑ a b Mechs vs. Minions. Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH, freaks4u.com: Riot Games is working on a new game «News. Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  21. ↑ LoL developer finally announces new games after ten years. October 16, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  22. ^ Andrew Webster: Riot continues to expand beyond League by acquiring studio behind Minecraft-like game. In: The Verge . April 16, 2020, accessed on April 16, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Astro Teemo. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
  24. ↑ Cho'Gath Eats the World. Retrieved October 3, 2015 .
  25. ↑ Blitzcrank's Poro Roundup - Mobile game from the League of Legends makers - GameStar. Retrieved September 1, 2015 .
  26. ↑ Welcome to Wild Rift! Accessed April 9, 2020 (German).
  27. ↑ League of Legends: "Project L" fighting game officially announced. October 16, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  28. ↑ "Project F": Diablo clone planned at Riot Games? October 16, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  29. ↑ SuperFantasy. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  30. ↑ League of Legends: Arcane - What is the LoL animation series about? October 16, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  31. ↑ Jikonka: Indonesian servers join the League: transfer now . October 18, 2013. Archived from the original on October 20, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 20, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / na.leagueoflegends.com 
  32. ↑ Riot Games Inc establishes EMEA headquarters in Dublin . IDA Ireland Investment Promotion Agency. July 15, 2010. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 16, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.idaireland.com
  33. ↑ Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem. Retrieved May 11, 2017 (American English).