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Riot Games settles sexual harassment litigation for $100M

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Riot Games has settled its sexual harassment litigation for $100 million as part of a global settlement to end the three-year-old litigation.

The publisher of League of Legends and Valorant had previously settled the litigation in 2019 for $10 million, but the California State Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) intervened and said the amount of money was too low. While the state agency wanted the settlement to be $400 million, the actual settlement is a lot more, with $80 million going to women who joined the class-action lawsuit against Riot Games and $20 million for attorney’s fees and other expenses.

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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.