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Riot Games’ $100M discrimination settlement payouts officially claimed by over 1500 affected people
This could be considered an epilogue or the final chapter of a long and sordid ordeal for affected employees of Riot Games. Back in...
Riot Games sponsors design challenge centered on making online spaces safer
Riot Games is not a gaming company most folks in our industry would consider a paragon of community in or off the court. The...
Riot Games’s $100M discrimination lawsuit settlement is final with over 2000 women and contractors benefiting
Before the Activision-Blizzard sexual harassment and discrimination scandal blew up last year, the games industry was fixed on the 2018 Riot Games sexual harassment...
Riot Games lays out five-year plan, partial ownership for employees
Yesterday, Riot Games' Nicolo Laurent released a length letter to workers and gamers, essentially outlining what the next five years of Riot will look...
Riot Games will settle sexual discrimination lawsuit for $100M and then some
We’ve been poking at the dumpster fire inside League of Legends company Riot Games ever since 2018, when Kotaku’s expose of workplace conditions was...
Riot Games claims it made headway into diversity efforts over 2020
Ever since Riot Games was called out by its own employees and the state of California as a truly toxic and sexist workplace, the...
California DFEH moves to protect Riot workers from retaliation for cooperating in state investigation
Blizzard isn't the only gaming studio under fire by regulators in California: We've been covering a similar situation within League of Legends company Riot...
Riot Games’ demand to shut down a fan-run 10 year-old League of Legends build causes a community uproar
Riot Games is back in the news for yet another unsavory reason as the League of Legends developer has acted against a fan-made emulator...
Alienware cut its League of Legends esports sponsorships short over ongoing Riot Games scandals
Last month, we covered yet another sexual harassment lawsuit swirling around Riot Games, this one a wrongful termination suit from a former executive assistant...
Former Riot Games staffer accuses CEO Nicolo Laurent of sexual harassment in new lawsuit
Another day, another round of bro culture at Riot Games. The latest episode has gone even further up the chain of command, as former...
Discrimination class-action lawsuit against Riot proceeds in spite of Riot’s arbitration success
In the summer of 2018, which seems like an eternity ago now, Kotaku published a massive expose of Riot Games' "culture of sexism," the...
Riot Games places exec on leave while investigating awful social media post
Nobody's surprised to learn that the corporate culture at the tippy-top of Riot Games still has "bad apples," right? After the huge sexual harassment...
Plaintiffs in the Riot Games class action discrimination lawsuit take up new counsel, withdraw settlement plans
A new chapter in the Riot Games legal drama has begun to be written. In August 2019, the class action discrimination lawsuit filed against...
Riot Games will pay $10 million to settle its ‘bro culture’ gender discrimination lawsuit
Back in August, the LA Times reported that Riot Games had agreed to settle the class-action discrimination lawsuit lodged against it. The suit had...
League of Legends tells casters and pro players to avoid ‘sensitive issues’ at the World Champs
So Riot's not having a good week with the whole China thing either.
While the League of Legends studio was able to successfully fend off...
Riot settles class action discrimination lawsuit as victims claim victory
Last year, Kotaku published a brutal exposé of Riot Games’ culture, replete with sexual harassment and sexual discrimination problems. In response, Riot promised a...
MMO Business Roundup: Riot’s diversity ‘progress’, NetEase’s esports arena, DayZ down under, and Twitch threats
Welcome back to another roundup of what's going on in the business of making online games! Let's start with the most controversial of the...
California says Riot Games is refusing to fully cooperate with its gender discrimination investigation
The Riot sexual harassment and gender discrimination fiasco is coming up on its anniversary this summer, and from a legal perspective, it's only just...
Riot Games isn’t budging on labor dispute even after employee walkout
As we've previously covered, employees of the League of Legends studio Riot Games walked out last week in protest over the company's labor and...
Riot Games developers did indeed walk out in protest last night over the ongoing labor and lawsuit fiasco
On Friday, we reported that Riot Games' latest efforts to stave off a walkout at the popular League of Legends company were likely to...
