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League of Legends: The art of balance

Summoner's Rift team manager John Frank discusses the intricacies of balancing one of the world's most successful competitive titles

Microsoft Build conference, DOTA and League of Legends esports among latest events to be cancelled

UPDATE: Dota Pro Circuit major and minor tournaments cancelled, GWENT World Masters and PUBG Mobile Leagues postponed

Riot takes its licensing game up a league

Hire of Disney and Nickelodeon vet Ron Johnson coincides with increased focus on external partners for consumer products

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: The (Doom) Eternal cycle of crunch

Latest episode also discusses allegations against Riot in class-action lawsuit, Paradox's subscription experiment, and tossing coins to Witchers

Women suing Riot Games may be entitled to $400m not $10m

Two state regulators attempt to intervene with gender discrimination class action lawsuit in plaintiffs' favour

Why the traditional product lifecycle “maybe doesn't apply” to League of Legends

After ten years, League of Legends is still one of the most popular games on earth and Riot Games is riding that wave into new spaces

Riot Games' publishing label expands LoL universe with two new games

Riot Forge is working with third-party studios on a turn-based RPG and an action platformer

Riot Games reveals new publishing label, Riot Forge

Riot Forge to work with outside studios to create new games in the League of Legends universe

Riot Games to pay out $10m to former employees in gender discrimination settlement

Total will be spread across up to around 1,000 former women employees

Bunch raises $3.85m toward development, expanded partnerships

Supercell, Tencent, and Riot Games among investors in mobile game chat and party app

League of Legends: Understanding the success of an esport that doesn't turn a profit

LEC head of business development and sponsorship Alban Dechelotte discusses finding the balance with esport partnerships

How Riot Games' Legends of Runeterra will bring "true free-to-play" to the CCG space

League of Legends developer ditches random packs for rewards scaled to play time and wild cards that let you buy anything

Riot's automated filters accidentally censor Muslim minority

But League of Legends developer has now fixed the error and is reviewing all disallowed words and phrases

Riot Games directs casters and players not to discuss politics on air

Global head of League of Legends esports says it wants "to keep broadcasts focused on the game"

Riot Games: "We aren't telling anyone to avoid saying 'Hong Kong'"

League of Legends firm clarifies confusion as rumours spread it is censoring esports team name Hong Kong Attitude

Riot Games files trademark lawsuit against esports organisation Riot Squad

The League of Legends developer says the copyright infringement has caused “irreparable damage”

League of Legends hits 8 million peak concurrent players a day

Riot shares August's daily worldwide average figures, says it's larger than the top 10 games on Steam combined

The Persona series has sold over 10m units

Persona 5 accounts for at least 2.7m of the franchise's total sales

Riot Games reaches preliminary settlement in class action lawsuit over gender discrimination

Riot: "Gender discrimination (in pay or promotion), sexual harassment, and retaliation are not systemic issues at Riot"

One year later, Riot leadership, employees, say things are improving

Chief diversity officer Angela Roseboro reflects on a year of change as current and recent employees confirm efforts