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Riot Games will invest $10 million in minority-owned game studios

League of Legends publisher Riot Games said that it will invest $10 million in founders who are underrepresented minorities and women in the video game community.

And through Riot Games’ Social Impact Fund, the company will commit $1 million in contributions to The Innocence Project and the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). The announcements follow up on tweets it made on Sunday and Monday.

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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.