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Coupled with allegations of misconduct and discrimination at game developers Riot Games and Ubisoft around the same time, the DFEH lawsuit is seen by analysts, academics, and media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian and CNN as forcing the video game industry to come to terms with the #MeToo movement and consider the possibility of ...
The Civil Rights Department filed lawsuits in 2018 and 2021 against Riot Games and Activision, alleging the companies had violated California’s equal-pay and anti-discrimination laws with their ...
Riot Games. Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles, California. 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.
Tencent, the parent of Riot Games, followed with a separate lawsuit in Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court against Xu Zhenhua, previously a senior Tencent employee, for violating non-competition agreements. [18] Tencent won the lawsuit in July 2018 and was awarded a settlement of $2.9 million (CN¥19.4 million). [17]
Riot Games and its CEO, Nicolo Laurent, are facing a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the executive’s former assistant. Vice has obtained a copy of the complaint, wherein the plaintiff (Sharon ...
Riot Games has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a gender discrimination-based class-action lawsuit filed in November 2018. Riot Games has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a gender ...
Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Since 2015, Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had questioned the need for digital storefronts like Valve's Steam, Apple's App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play, to take a 30% revenue sharing cut, and argued that when accounting for current rates of content distribution and other factors needed, a revenue cut of 8% should be sufficient to ...
Riot Games, developer of "League of Legends," will fork over at least $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of women employees alleging the company's "bro culture" resulted ...