Riot Games will let new employees opt for lawsuits over arbitration
Under pressure from employees, Riot Games announced tonight that it will change a policy and let new employees opt to sue the company rather...
Riot Games joins with Salesforce.org and F5 to diversify tech industry
Salesforce.org, Riot Games, and F5 Networks announced that they will join the Reboot Representation Tech Coalition, an initiative to double the number of black,...
Anita Sarkeesian is back with Feminist Frequency video on queer tropes in games
Anita Sarkeesian, the creator of the award-winning video criticism series Feminist Frequency, has returned with a new video series on Queer Tropes in Video...
Riot Games hires chief diversity officer in wake of sexism scandal
Angela Roseboro is taking on a big task as the chief diversity officer at Riot Games. She joins Riot from Dropbox and comes in...
Riot Games issues new company values in wake of ‘bro’ culture accusations
Riot Games, the maker of the enormously popular League of Legends multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) PC game, has issued a new set of...
Riot Games gets hit with gender discrimination lawsuit (updated)
Riot Games is facing a class action lawsuit for gender discrimination at the publisher of League of Legends, one of the biggest games in...
Game developers revive Sissyfight as an open-source online game about sexism
The original creators seek to relaunch Sissyfight as an online multiplayer game.
Women bring down the house at GDC
The movement to remove barriers for women in the game business is gathering steam.
Playhaven developer fired for sexual jokes after SendGrid marketer outs him on Twitter
A Playhaven game developer was fired after making sexual jokes in the audience during a keynote session at PyCon, a conference for Python developers. Now Adria Richards, a developer evangelist for SendGrid, is getting rape and death threats via Twitter.
The news that shook the game world in 2012
Big failures and surprise successes marked 2012 for the games industry.