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Riot Games gets hit with gender discrimination lawsuit (updated)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Riot Games is facing a class action lawsuit for gender discrimination at the publisher of League of Legends, one of the biggest games in the world and a leading esport.

Kotaku reported the lawsuit first, which comes three months after it posted an investigation about the sexist culture at Riot Games.

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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.