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Riot Games buys property for studio with up to 400 employees in Seattle

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Riot Games has announced a plan for a big expansion in Seattle with the purchase of an office in Mercer Island, Washington.

The Los Angeles maker of League of Legends and other games will hire game developers as part of its expansion in the Seattle area as it needs new talent to support titles like the shooter game Valorant.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.