Riot Games dominated the esports categories at The Game Awards

According toactiveplayer.io, the game has garnered an average of 22 to 25 million monthly players. The last 30 days alone saw an influx of active daily players hit up to five million. Unfortunately, JDG’s Golden Road run was abruptly cut short by Faker and T1. This year’s edition of Worlds also overtook last year’s numbers by a whole 1.3 million.

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 60 words · Mallory Miller

Riot Games donates $5.4 million to humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is getting a helping hand from Riot Games. Riot has also done so with a cool million dollars donated earlier this month.

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 24 words · Scott Johnson

Riot Games drops new VALORANT Champions bundle

VALORANT Champions 2023 is just around the corner and a new bundle has been released to commemorate the event. The new VALORANT Champions 2023 features a Vandal and a Kunai knife. Riot Games announced that the new Champions bundle will be available starting August 4. The first Champions bundle in 2021 featured a Vandal skin and a Karambit. Meanwhile, Champions bundle 2022 included a Phantom skin and a butterfly knife....

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 204 words · Alexandria Vega

Riot Games employees reportedly hit with a new round of layoffs

With these shifts, certain roles were eliminated, impacting a total of 46 Rioters. While that’s not always possible, it’s our primary goal."

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 22 words · Joshua Rocha

Riot Games expands publishing business into APAC with new leaders and offices

The expansion will involve new offices in India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Riot Games has announced an update to its business reorganization in the fast-growing Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Previously SEA was run out of its Singapore hub office and had an office in Japan. -Alex Kraynov, Managing Director for the Asia Pacific, Riot Games. Riots games within the League of Legends universe have garnered over 600 million players globally in the past decade....

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 76 words · Mr. Shane Garza

Riot Games hackers sell League of Legends source code for $700,000 on black market

Now, theyve turned to the black market. According to Esports Heaven, the files are being sold on the black market by a user named Arkat_001. The source code is being sold as a package of 572,000 files amounting to 72.4GB of data in total. As bad as that sounds, it could have been a lot worse. Fortunately, the hackers were kicked from Riot’s data pipe before finding Vanguard’s source code.

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 70 words · Mark Stanley

Riot Games has 'reset' League of Legends MMO, now years from release

As a result, it will be, several years, before we even hear about the MMO again. It’s likely that Riot is now pursuing a very different MMO flavour for the game. When we next hear about Riots MMO, League of Legends itself could be in a very different place. At the very least, well have2KXOandArcane Season 2by then.

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 58 words · Stephen Davis

Riot Games has officially banned former TSM coach Peter Zhang from League of Legends esports

Riot Games has officially announced that former TSM coach Peter Zhang has been banned from League of Legends esports. TSM also conducted an internal investigation of their own, which confirmed these accusations. This was was seen as Zhang potentially sharing sensitive information for his benefit. The evidence suggests that Zhang had misled the player on multiple occasions that the car could not be sold. However, Zhang has since only paid $35,000 with the remaining $450,000 yet to be paid....

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 79 words · Tyler Smith

Riot Games has officially released EDward Gaming's Worlds skin

These skins are a vibe. Riot Games has released the official preview of what the new Worlds skins for EDG will look like in-game. Each skin will also have a unique recall animation that involves the Summoner’s Cup. A chroma edition of EDG’s Worlds 2021 Champions skins has also been revealed on aWeibo post. The chroma skins come in black and red, a nod to the team’s Worlds 2021 jerseys.

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 70 words · Sabrina Campos

Riot Games have made plans to adjust the current LoL Esports business model

LoL Esports will be taking a page out of the VCT’s book. Riot is also in talks with the LPL on how its business model can evolve too. Were committed to supporting the ecosystem but believe we can and should do it in a more scalable way. That would mean only 2030 teams can participate in digital revenue in a season. Well have more to share about some exciting new digital LoL Esports products in development later this year....

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 88 words · Taylor Myers

Riot Games hires Diablo 4 veteran for "unannounced project," sparking rumours of their next title

Is Riot Games ramping up for the MMO? Or is the project a potential Action RPG? He also was the lead designer for expansions like Vessel of Hatred and new seasons post-launch. Some job openings at Riot Games also seem to hint at potentially supporting the unannounced project. These include roles likeAssociate Art Director,Game Designer, specifically for the Unpublished R&D Product. SomeSoftware Engineeringroles were also posted that require some experience in Unreal Engine....

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · Veronica Rodriguez

Riot Games introduces the 2023 preseason patch 12.22 with plenty of changes afoot

The 2023 preseason patch is here! The top lane also gets a rework for its gold and experience gained. Were introducing new ward visuals on the minimap that will indicate when wards are close to expiring. Allied ward minimap icons will now change appearance when they reach a third of their remaining duration. At the end of the day, this is what we want to protect against with the remake system....

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 89 words · Larry King

Riot Games introduces the VCT LOCK//IN limited-edition capsules collection

Bring on the Misericordia. As for the red colourway, that is to represent the VALORANT Champions Tour. Lastly, there is also the exclusive VCT LOCK//IN “VAMOS!” holospray featuring Brazilian hero, Raze. This is to kickstart the inaugural 2023 season for the VCT with its first-ever franchised league tournament.

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 48 words · Tina Wright