Riot Games announces RiotX Arcane event to promote animated series
Riot Games announced today the launch of the RiotX Arcane event, a multiple-game promotional blitz done on behalf of the upcoming animated series Arcane....
How Riot Games is training 60 girls to be game developers with Girls Who Code
About 45% of video game players in the U.S. are women, but only about 30% of game developers identify as female. This is why...
How Riot Games will ensure that Valorant’s esports stars include women
By any measure, League of Legends has been an enormous success for Riot Games for more than a decade. But when it comes to...
Valorant reaches 14M active players and 500M games played
Riot Games said that its first-person shooter Valorant has reached 14 million monthly active PC players and half a billion games played in its...
Riot Games will launch Wild Rift esports tournament in late 2021
Riot Games will launch the League of Legends: Wild Rift esports tournament in late 2021. The company hopes to apply the lessons of a...
Polyient Games hosts $100,000 esports tournaments for NFT games
Polyient Games has teamed up with automated esports tournament platform Community Gaming to launch a $100,000 tournament series as a way to introduce mainstream...
Valorant’s Game Changers tournaments will highlight women and marginalized people
Riot Games announced the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Game Changers program today. It’s an esports tournament initiative to supplement the competitive season by highlighting...
The DeanBeat: Predictions for gaming in 2021
This past year was one of the most unpredictable in all of human history. The pandemic threw off our ability to predict what will...
How Riot Games is gunning for its second big esport with Valorant
Riot Games spent a decade building League of Legends into a huge esports phenomenon. And with the first-person shooter game Valorant, the company hopes...
What a U.S. ban on Tencent may mean for the online game industry
The U.S.-China trade war has taken another turn after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will put an end to WeChat...