- Riot Games announces two new single-player titles at The Game Awards.
- Ruined King and CONV / RGENCE developed as part of new Riot Forge publishing arm.
- Studio is expanding aggressively beyond its flagship MOBA League of Legends.
Until recently, Riot Games was an indie developer turned isolationist gaming powerhouse. The League of Legends creator operated on a plane of existence separate from the mainstream gaming industry.
Appearances at gaming shows of the ilk of the Game Awards were all but nonexistent . It has its own publishing arm, does feature on digital storefronts, runs its own events, and fundamentally plays by a different set of rules.
With the might of a game that has secured a seemingly immovable berth as the world’s premier eSport and millions of daily players, there was no reason for Riot to do otherwise. It’s an enviable position that few other games apart from maybe Fortnite can relate to.
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