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font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|description=Riot Games was founded in 2006 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as a game development studio </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they launched their </del>first game, League of Legends, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in 2009</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|description=Riot Games<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It </ins>was founded in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">September </ins>2006 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill to create League of Legends and later developed spin-off games </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the unrelated </ins>first<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-person shooter </ins>game <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Valorant. In 2011, Riot Games was acquired by Chinese conglomerate Tencent. Riot Games' publishing arm</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Riot Forge, oversees the production of </ins>League of Legends <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">spin-offs by other developers. The company collaborated with Fortiche to release Arcane</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a television series based on the League of Legends universe</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Following </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">success </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their debut title</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they have </del>released <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">VALORANT</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Teamfight Tactics</del>, Legends of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Runeterra </del>and League of Legends: Wild Rift and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even expanded their IP through other projects across music</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">comic books</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">board </del>games and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even an Emmy-winning </del>animated series <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">called "</del>Arcane<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Riot Games operates 12 international League of Legends esports leagues, the League of Legends World Championship, and the Valorant Champions Tour. The company sells corporate sponsorships, merchandise, and streaming rights for its leagues. However, Riot has faced allegations and lawsuits regarding a toxic workplace culture, including gender discrimination and sexual harassment, and has been criticized for its use of forced arbitration in response to these allegations.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, the founders of Riot Games, became friends while studying business at the University of Southern California. They believed in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">potential for long-term support and monetization of games, inspired by Defense </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Ancients and Asian video game designers' business models. Riot Games was established in September 2006 in Santa Monica, California</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with initial funding of $1.5 million. League of Legends was </ins>released <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as a free-to-play game in October 2009 after several rounds of funding totaling $8 million</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including investments by venture capital firms Benchmark and FirstMark Capital</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as well as Tencent.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Following beta tests, Riot Games relocated its European headquarters to Dublin in May 2010. Tencent acquired a 93 percent stake in Riot Games for $400 million in February 2011, later increasing its ownership to 100 percent. In response to toxicity and harassment in League of </ins>Legends<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Riot Games launched a "player behavior team" in 2012 and introduced various measures to combat harassment on its platform.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">By 2013, League </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Legends was the most-played multiplayer PC game globally, with over 100 million monthly players by 2016. Riot Games relocated to a new campus in western Los Angeles in 2015 and acquired Radiant Entertainment in March 2016. In October 2017, founders Beck </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Merrill announced their focus on developing new games, with three longtime employees assuming leadership roles.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In October 2019, Riot Games announced new games, including </ins>League of Legends: Wild Rift<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Legends of Runeterra, </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Project A (later revealed as Valorant). Riot Forge</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a publishing label</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was launched in December 2019 to partner with smaller studios for League of Legends </ins>games<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Riot Games acquired Hypixel Studios in April 2020 </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">announced plans for a Singapore office.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Riot collaborated with Fortiche to release the </ins>animated series Arcane <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in November 2021. In October 2022, Riot acquired Wargaming Sydney, renaming it Riot Sydney. In January 2023, Riot suffered a cyberattack, and in September 2023, Dylan Jadeja became CEO. 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