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Riot Games will buy next-gen consoles and give 10% bonus for all employees

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent is handing out the perks today for employees that include buying next-generation consoles for all full-time workers.

Riot employees can choose from the Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch from now through 2021. Riot will also provide a one-time 10% bonus, with an additional 2.5% for each year of service since 2017, to all full-time employees in 2021 in addition to their regular annual bonuses that will be paid next year.

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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.