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Kenneth Shepard Apr 7, 2022. 4 minute read
Riot Games Lifts Mask, Vaccination Mandates as Workers Return to LA Office
Less than a week after the same decision prompted a walkout from workers at Activision-Blizzard, Riot has apparently lifted a mandate on COVID-19 vaccinations, testing, and masks for those working out of its Los Angeles office. Waypoint has a report on the subject, where it talked to two current and…
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Imran Khan Dec 28, 2021. 1 minute read
Riot Games Settles Sexual Harassment Lawsuit With Still-Inadequate $100 Million Dollar Fund
While Riot Games is far from the first video game company to find itself outed for frat-like work culture and sexual harassment, it’s probably not unfair to say that it was one of the biggest eye-opening examples for a lot of casual observers. An exposé on the company in 2018…
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Imran Khan Mar 19, 2021. 3 minute read
This Week in News is Electronic and Acoustic
Welcome to This Week in News, where we summarize all the week’s biggest news with an option to dive deeper if you want to know more. Blizzard Entertainment Is Hiring for an Unannounced AAA Multiplayer Game – Blizzard is seemingly looking for talent to help build another multiplayer game which…
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Imran Khan Mar 16, 2021. 2 minute read
Riot Games Clears Riot Games CEO of Wrongdoing
Riot Games, the publisher behind titles like League of Legends and other things that are related to League of Legends, announced today that their internal investigation of their own CEO Nicolo Laurent has concluded. Using a third-party company to conduct the investigation, Riot states that they do not believe their own CEO has…
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Jordan Mallory Jun 12, 2020. 4 minute read
Riot Executive Resigns After Sharing Meme Praising George Floyd’s Death
A Riot Games executive has resigned following an internal investigation into a post he made on Facebook, which blamed the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department on his “criminal lifestyle,” and included a factually inaccurate meme implying that Floyd should have been killed years…
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Jordan Mallory Apr 29, 2020. 2 minute read
Please Only Inflate Valorant’s Twitch Ratings as per the ToS
Riot’s new competitive multiplayer shooter Valorant continues to dominate Twitch in terms of average active viewers, ranking in the top three games (with most of its time spent in the number one slot) since its closed beta test started earlier this month. People are undeniably excited for Valorant for the…
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Jordan Mallory Apr 27, 2020. 2 minute read
Not Even Valorant’s Exec. Producer Will Risk Solo Queue as a Woman
Last Friday, a Riot Games UX designer tweeted video of an all too common occurrence: gendered harassment in the built-in voice chat of an online game. While such harassment is always deplorable, this instance was particularly remarkable in that the designer, who goes by the name Greenily and is a…
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Jordan Mallory Apr 24, 2020. 2 minute read
No One Has Been Paid to Stream Valorant, Says Riot
As you read this, somewhere around 435,000 people are watching Valorant on popular video game streaming website Twitch dot com. Riot’s first foray into the world of Games That Aren’t League of Legends™ has routinely crushed the competition on Twitch by hundreds of thousands of viewers since it first went…
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Jordan Mallory Mar 2, 2020. 3 minute read
Meet Valorant, the Riot Games FPS Formerly Known as ‘Project A’
Riot Games, which I should go ahead and mention is owned by the same mega-giant Chinese corporation that owns the company that owns Fanbyte, pulled the covers off its mysterious first-person shooter yesterday. No longer “Project A,” the highly-competitive squad-based FPS is now known as Valorant, and Riot would very…
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Victoria Rose Jan 27, 2020. 3 minute read
Even Esports Is Affected by the Coronavirus in China
Unless you’ve been actively avoiding any human contact whatsoever, which you probably will after hearing this, you’ve likely heard about the newest “coronavirus” mutation. The new coronavirus has put the whole world into panic, and with origins in China, the nation has taken precautions. Many events in China are postponed…
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Victoria Rose Oct 30, 2019. 3 minute read
League Of Legends Peeks Stylish Louis Vuitton And Music Group Collabs
With another Worlds Championship, the premier international championship for League of Legends, comes a bundle of surprises. And this year, for the 10th anniversary of the game, developer and publisher Riot Games is stepping up their… well, game. Which means new skins! They’ve already released their “anthem,” an annual empowerment…
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John Warren Oct 18, 2019. Less than a minute
Late Lunch October 16, 2019: Fishing Through the Battle Pass
Riot has announced every game. There’s fishing in Fortnite. Meowth is large and long. It’s mass hysteria around here at Fanbyte. Late Lunch is Fanbyte’s live video podcast that airs every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 5pm PST (ish) on twitch.tv/fanbyte. We’ll put the VODs up on the site and the…
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Kris Ligman Mar 8, 2016. 2 minute read
Rising Thunder has been canceled, as developers acquired by League of Legends makers Riot
Rising Thunder developer Radiant Entertainment has just announced it has been acquired by Riot Games, makers of the wildly successful battle arena game League of Legends.
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