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League of Legends ( LoL ), commonly referred to as League, is a 2009 multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by Defense of the Ancients, a custom map for Warcraft III, Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre. Since its release in October 2009, League has been free ...
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.
There was no word about the price, but League of Legends reportedly makes $1 billion a year via in-app purchases. Tencent should be able to afford it, though, as it was recently valued at $200 ...
Update: Tencent confirmed the deal in a short statement to TechCrunch: We confirmed that we recently purchased the remaining equity of Riot. We owned around 93 percent of Riot prior to this recent ...
Updated Wed, Mar 9, 2016 ยท 2 min read. Riot Games, the studio in charge of League of Legends, acquired Radiant Entertainment and all of its fighting game technology this week. Radiant is staffed ...
In September 2023, the organization entered League of Legends esports by acquiring Team SoloMid's League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) franchise slot. [8] On the same day as its LCS purchase, Shopify Rebellion formed a joint-venture Valorant partnership with Moist Esports .
The relationship between Tencent and Riot actually goes back a few years -- the Chinese Internet company picked up the license to publish League of Legends overseas two and a half years ago ...
Bilibili entered the professional League of Legends scene on 17 December 2017 with their acquisition of LPL team I May. The team was rebranded as Bilibili Gaming. [1] [2]After a top two finish in the 2023 LPL Spring Split, the team qualified for MSI for the first time in their history. [3]