riot games timeline by Bergen Miller

2003

berg2006 — 2024-02-22 14:50:40 UTC

Met at USC and then helped work on an MMO game that failed, but gained a lot of knowledge

2006

berg2006 — 2024-02-22 14:52:00 UTC

The company was founded in September 2006 by University of Southern California roommates Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill

2007 ( labor )

berg2006 — 2024-02-22 14:54:48 UTC

The group threw themselves into developing a game they initially called Onslaught. They wrote a massive design document and focused on creating entirely new characters on a game with an open-source code for an already existing existing game

2010 ( land )

berg2006 — 2024-02-22 14:56:03 UTC

On May 10, 2010, Riot Games announced that they would take over and operation of their game in Europe; to do so, Riot Games relocated their European headquarters in Brighton to new offices in Dublin.

2011 ( entrepreneurship )

berg2006 — 2024-02-22 14:56:39 UTC

Following Riot Games' first world championship event in 2011, a small affair at a conference in Sweden, the company decided to turn their tournaments into professional sports-like events.

2012

berg2006 — 2024-02-22 14:57:50 UTC

In 2012, in response to toxicity and harassment in League of Legends, Riot Games launched a "player behavior team" of psychologists to combat harassment on its platform.

2013 ( capital )

berg2006 — 2024-02-22 14:58:36 UTC

By 2013, League of Legends was the most-played multiplayer PC game in the world. Made them 624 million dollars

2017

berg2006 — 2024-02-22 15:00:12 UTC

On October 13, 2017, Beck and Merrill announced that they were returning their focus to developing games, aiming to create new experiences for video game and esports players. with a game called valorant