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Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles.It was founded in September 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill to develop League of Legends and went on to develop several spin-off games and the unrelated first-person shooter game Valorant.
The free-to-play model was untested outside of Asian markets, [39] so publishers were primarily interested in a retail release, and the game's capacity for a sequel. [40] In 2008, Riot reached an agreement with holding company Tencent to oversee the game's launch in China. [40] League of Legends was announced October 7, 2008, for Microsoft Windows.
League of Legends is one of the largest esports with various annual tournaments taking place worldwide. [1] In terms of esports professional gaming as of June 2016, League of Legends has had $29,203,916 USD in prize money, 4,083 Players, and 1,718 tournaments, compared to Dota 2's US$64,397,286 of prize money, 1,495 players, and 613 tournaments.
League of Pain, also known as Professional Underground League of Pain, and known as Riot in the UK, [2] is a futuristic, violent sports video game developed by British studio Beyond Reality and published by Psygnosis for the PlayStation, MS-DOS, and Windows in 1997.
Valorant is a 2020 first-person tactical hero shooter video game developed and published by Riot Games. [3] A free-to-play game, Valorant takes inspiration from the Counter-Strike series, borrowing several mechanics such as the buy menu, spray patterns, and inaccuracy while moving.
RIOT is planning to release an in-game level editor, using this players will be able to re-create the riots that are currently going on in the world. [3] The levels can then be shared with anyone in the world, and can then be rated by others based on quality and historical accuracy.
Riot Games, which owns League of Legends, commissioned the winner's trophy as the Summoner's Cup. Riot specified that it should weigh 70 pounds (about 32 kilograms), though the actual weight of the finished cup was reduced so it would not be too heavy to lift in victory. The World Championship Cups for 2012 and for 2014 were created by Thomas Lyte.
Element (formerly Riot and Vector [13]) is a free and open-source software instant messaging client implementing the Matrix protocol. [ 14 ] Element supports end-to-end encryption , [ 15 ] private and public groups, sharing of files between users, voice and video calls, and other collaborative features with help of bots and widgets.