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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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,” [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Last year Riot Games was slapped with a sexual discrimination class-action suit following Kotaku’s exposé of the prevailing “bro culture” in the studio. Riot Games agreed to a $10 million settlement in August 2019, the details of which were released in December later that year and is now awaiting approval by the court. Apparently, the drama doesn’t end there. According [...]
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