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Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles, California.[1]

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Action game

An action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction time.

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Action role-playing game

An action role-playing game (often abbreviated action RPG or ARPG) is a subgenre of video games that combines core elements from both the action game and role-playing genre.

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Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving.

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Airship Syndicate

Airship Syndicate Entertainment, Inc.

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Alienware

Alienware Corporation is an American computer hardware subsidiary brand of Dell.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Angel investor

An angel investor (also known as a business angel, informal investor, angel funder, private investor, or seed investor) is an individual who provides capital to a business or businesses, including startups, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.

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Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion which is characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events.

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AOL

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.

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Arbitration

Arbitration is a formal method of dispute resolution involving a neutral third party who makes a binding decision.

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Arbitration clause

In contract law, an arbitration clause is a clause in a contract that requires the parties to resolve their disputes through an arbitration process.

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Arcade video game

An arcade video game takes player input from its controls, processes it through electrical or computerized components, and displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display.

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Arcane (TV series)

Arcane (titled onscreen as Arcane: League of Legends) is an adult animated steampunk action-adventure television series created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee. Riot Games and Arcane (TV series) are League of Legends.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Auto battler

An auto battler, also known as auto chess, is a subgenre of strategy video games that typically feature chess-like elements where players place characters on a grid-shaped battlefield during a preparation phase, who then fight the opposing team's characters without any further direct input from the player.

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Bandle Tale

Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story is a role-playing video game and farm life sim developed by Lithuania-based studio Lazy Bear Games and published by Riot Forge.

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Bankruptcy of FTX

The bankruptcy of FTX, a Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange, began in November 2022.

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Battle pass

In the video game industry, a battle pass or rewards track is a type of monetization approach that provides additional content for a game usually through a tiered system, rewarding the player with in-game items for playing the game and completing specific challenges.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Benchmark (venture capital firm)

Benchmark is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, and Val Vaden.

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek, previously known as BusinessWeek (and before that Business Week and The Business Week), is an American monthly business magazine published 12 times a year.

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Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.

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Board of directors

A board of directors is an executive committee that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England.

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Browser game

A browser game is a video game that is played via the internet using a web browser.

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California Civil Rights Department

The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) (formerly known as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)) is an agency of California state government charged with the protection of residents from employment, housing and public accommodation discrimination, and hate violence.

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California Department of Industrial Relations

The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) is a department of the government of the state of California which was initially created in 1927.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chief content officer

A chief content officer (CCO) is a corporate executive responsible for the brand development through content creation and multi-channel publication of the organization's content (text, video, audio, animation, etc.). The CCO oversees the content creation team and make sure that all content initiatives are done the way it is envisioned.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Chief financial officer

A chief financial officer (CFO), also known as a treasurer, is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances (financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting, and often the analysis of data).

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Chief marketing officer

A chief marketing officer (CMO), also called a global marketing officer or marketing director, or chief brand officer, is a corporate executive responsible for managing marketing activities in an organization.

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Chief operating officer

A chief operating officer (COO) (or chief operations officer) is an executive in charge of the daily operations of an organization (i.e. personnel, resources, and logistics).

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Chief technology officer

A chief technology officer (CTO) (also known as a chief technical officer or chief technologist) is an officer tasked with managing technical operations of an organization.

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Choice Provisions

Choice Provisions Inc., formerly known as Gaijin Games Inc. prior to June 2014, is an American-origin independent video game development studio, best known for their Bit.Trip series of video games. Riot Games and Choice Provisions are video game companies based in California.

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Cleveland Cavaliers

The Cleveland Cavaliers, often referred to as the Cavs, are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland.

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Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is a type of multi-industry company that consists of several different and unrelated business entities that operate in various industries under one corporate group.

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Convergence: A League of Legends Story is a 2023 Metroidvania video game developed by Double Stallion and published by Riot Forge.

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Corporate development

Corporate development refers to the planning and execution of strategies to meet organizational objectives.

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Courts of California

Courts of California include:;State courts of record of California.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Crypto.com Arena

Crypto.com Arena (stylized as crypto.com Arena; formerly Staples Center) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Los Angeles.

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Cryptocurrency exchange

A cryptocurrency exchange, or a digital currency exchange (DCE), is a business that allows customers to trade cryptocurrencies or digital currencies for other assets, such as conventional fiat money or other digital currencies.

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Curriculum vitae

In English, a curriculum vitae (on Lexico.com Latin for "course of life", often shortened to CV) is a short written summary of a person's career, qualifications, and education.

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Dark web

The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets: overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access.

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Defense of the Ancients

Defense of the Ancients (DotA) is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) mod for the video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002) and its expansion, The Frozen Throne (2003).

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Digital collectible card game

A digital collectible card game (DCCG) or online collectible card game (OCCG) is a computer or video game that emulates collectible card games (CCG) and is typically played online or occasionally as a standalone video game.

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Disco ball

A disco ball (also known as a mirror ball or glitter ball) is a roughly spherical object that reflects light directed at it in many directions, producing a complex display.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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E-commerce

E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling products on online services or over the Internet.

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Engadget

Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.

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ESPN

ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.

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Esports

Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Fighting game

A fighting game is a genre of video game that involves combat between two or more characters.

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First-person shooter

A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character.

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FirstMark Capital

FirstMark is a Venture capital firm based in New York City.

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Fortiche

Fortiche Production SAS is a French animation studio headquartered in Paris.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.

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Forum non conveniens

Forum non conveniens (Latin for "an inconvenient forum") (FNC) is a mostly common law legal doctrine through which a court acknowledges that another forum or court where the case might have been brought is a more appropriate venue for a legal case, and transfers the case to such a forum.

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Frances X. Frei

Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management and the course lead for first-year diversity and inclusion studies at Harvard Business School.

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Free-to-play

Free-to-play (F2P or FtP) video games are games that give players access to a significant portion of their content without paying or do not require paying to continue playing.

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FTX

FTX Trading Ltd., commonly known as FTX (short for "Futures Exchange"), is a bankrupt company that formerly operated a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto hedge fund.

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Galen Center

The Galen Center is a multipurpose indoor arena and athletic facility owned and operated by the University of Southern California. Riot Games and Galen Center are 2006 establishments in California.

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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Game Informer

Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and associated consoles.

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Gamer

A gamer is a someone who plays interactive games, either video games, tabletop role-playing games, skill-based card games, or any combination thereof, and who often plays for extended periods of time.

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Gamer Network

Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in Brighton.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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Gamurs

The GAMURS Group, simply known as Gamurs, is an esports media and entertainment publisher.

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George Floyd

George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd might have used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020.

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Golden State Warriors

The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco.

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Hack and slash

Hack and slash, also known as hack and slay (H&S or HnS) or slash 'em up, refers to a type of gameplay that emphasizes combat with melee-based weapons (such as swords or blades).

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Hextech Mayhem

Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story is a rhythm video game developed by Choice Provisions and published by Riot Forge, a publishing division of Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends. Riot Games and Hextech Mayhem are League of Legends.

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Houston Rockets

The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston.

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Howeitat

The Howeitat or Huwaitat (الحويطات al-Ḥuwayṭāt, Northwest Arabian dialect: ál-Ḥwēṭāt) are a large Judhami tribe that inhabits areas of present-day southern Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula and Sharqia governate in Egypt, the Negev, and northwestern Saudi Arabia.

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Human rights in Saudi Arabia

Human rights in Saudi Arabia are a topic of concern and controversy.

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Hytale

Hytale is an upcoming sandbox game by Hypixel Studios.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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Impostor syndrome

Impostor syndrome, also known as impostor phenomenon or impostorism, is a psychological experience of intellectual and professional fraudulence.

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Inc. (magazine)

Inc. is an American business magazine founded in 1979 and based in New York City.

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IOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.

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Jacksonville Landing shooting

The Jacksonville Landing shooting, also known as the Jacksonville shooting, was a mass shooting that occurred at a video game tournament for the video game Madden NFL 19 in Jacksonville Landing, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, on August 26, 2018, at about 1:30 pm (EDT). Riot Games and Jacksonville Landing shooting are video game controversies.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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Lazy Bear Games

Lazy Bear Games is a video game development company based in Vilnius, Lithuania, founded by Russian video game developers Nikita Kulaga and Svyatoslav Cherkasov in St.Petersburg, Russia.

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League Championship Series (esports)

The League Championship Series (LCS) is the top level of professional League of Legends in the United States and Canada.

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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.

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League of Legends esports is the professional competition of the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends.

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The League of Legends World Championship (commonly abbreviated as Worlds) is the annual professional League of Legends world championship tournament hosted by Riot Games and is the culmination of each season.

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League of Legends: Wild Rift (abbreviated League: WR or simply Wild Rift) is a multiplayer online battle arena mobile game developed and published by Riot Games for Android and iOS. Riot Games and League of Legends: Wild Rift are League of Legends.

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Legends of Runeterra (LoR is a 2020 digital collectible card game developed and published by Riot Games.

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League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Riot Games and List of League of Legends media are League of Legends.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Los Angeles Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as the Garden or by its initials MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City.

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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.

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Max (streaming service)

Max, formerly and still known in some regions as HBO Max, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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MCV/Develop

MCV/Develop (formerly MCV and Market for Computer & Video Games) is a UK trade magazine that focuses on the business aspects of the video game industry.

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Mechs vs. Minions

Mechs vs. Riot Games and Mechs vs. Minions are League of Legends.

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MeToo movement

#MeToo is a social movement and awareness campaign against sexual abuse, sexual harassment and rape culture, in which people publicize their experiences of sexual abuse or sexual harassment.

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Metro (British newspaper)

Metro is the United Kingdom's highest-circulation freesheet tabloid newspaper.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Microtransaction

Microtransactions (mtx) refers to a business model where users can purchase in-game virtual goods with micropayments. Riot Games and Microtransaction are video game controversies.

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Mid-Season Invitational

The Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) is an annual League of Legends international tournament hosted by Riot Games in the middle of years, since 2015.

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Middleware

Middleware is a type of computer software program that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system.

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Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) is a mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game developed and published by Chinese developer Moonton, a subsidiary of ByteDance.

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Moonton

Shanghai Moonton Technology Co.

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Multiplayer online battle arena

Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) is a subgenre of strategy video games in which two teams of players compete against each other on a predefined battlefield.

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Murder of George Floyd

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American man, was murdered in Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer.

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Mykhailo Fedorov

Mykhailo Albertovych Fedorov (Михайло Альбертович Федоров,; born 21 January 1991) is a Ukrainian politician, and businessman.

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Neom

Neom (styled NEOM) is an urban area being built by Saudi Arabia in Tabuk.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Nintendo Switch

The is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017.

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Non-binary gender

Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary.

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Open letter

An open letter is a letter that is intended to be read by a wide audience, or a letter intended for an individual, but that is nonetheless widely distributed intentionally.

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Organizational culture

Organizational culture refers to culture related to organizations including schools, universities, not-for-profit groups, government agencies, and business entities.

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Paramount Global

Paramount Global (also known simply as Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan.

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PAX (event)

PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming culture festivals involving tabletop, arcade, and video gaming.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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PCGamesN

PCGamesN is a British website with articles about PC gaming and hardware.

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Philadelphia 76ers

The Philadelphia 76ers, also known colloquially as the Sixers, are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

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Pixel art

Pixel art is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building block.

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Platformer

A platformer (also called a platform game, and sometimes a jump 'n' run game) is a sub-genre of action video games in which the core objective is to move the player character between points in an environment.

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PlayStation 4

The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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PlayStation 5

The PlayStation 5 (PS5) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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Pocket Gamer

Pocket Gamer is a video game website and former print magazine that focuses on mobile, portable and handheld games.

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Political statement

The term political statement is used to refer to a communication which makes commentary on an issue of political, identity or social significance.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.

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President (corporate title)

A president is a leader of an organization, company, community, club, trade union, university or other group.

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Radiant Entertainment

Radiant Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Los Altos, California.

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Reddit

Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network.

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Rhythm game

Rhythm game or rhythm action is a genre of music-themed action video game that challenges a player's sense of rhythm.

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Riot Forge

Riot Forge was a video game publishing label created by Riot Games, developers of the MOBA video game ''League of Legends''.

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Riot Sydney

Riot Sydney (formerly BigWorld Technology and Wargaming Sydney) is an Australian software company, formed in 2002 by John De Margheriti.

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Rising Thunder (video game)

Rising Thunder was a cancelled free-to-play fighting game developed by Radiant Entertainment.

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Rock Paper Shotgun

Rock Paper Shotgun is a British video game journalism website.

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Role-playing video game

A role-playing video game, a role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG), is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of recording statistics.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Ruined King

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is a 2021 turn-based role-playing video game developed by Airship Syndicate and published by Riot Forge. Riot Games and Ruined King are League of Legends.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica (Saint Monica; Spanish: Santa Mónica) is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Self-esteem

Self-esteem is confidence in one's own worth, abilities, or morals.

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Sexism

Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender.

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Sexual harassment in the workplace in the United States

Sexual harassment in the workplace in US labor law has been considered a form of discrimination on the basis of sex in the United States since the mid-1970s.

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Shacknews

Shacknews is a website that hosts news, features, editorial content and forums relating to video games.

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Shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs) are a sub-genre of action games.

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Simulation video game

Simulation video games are a diverse super-category of video games, generally designed to closely simulate real world activities.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Song of Nunu

Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story is a 2023 platform video game developed by Tequila Works and published by Riot Forge. Riot Games and Song of Nunu are League of Legends.

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Sports video game

A sports video game is a video game that simulates the practice of sports.

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Stonehearth

Stonehearth is a 2018 city-building game developed by Radiant Entertainment.

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Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the company.

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Swords, Dublin

Swords (or Sord Cholmcille) in County Dublin, the county town of the local government area of Fingal, is a large suburban town on the east coast of Ireland, situated ten kilometres north of Dublin city centre.

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Tabletop game

Tabletop games or tabletops are games that are normally played on a table or other flat surface, such as board games, card games, dice games, miniature wargames, or tile-based games.

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Tactical shooter

A tactical shooter is a sub-genre of first- and third-person shooters, associated with using strategy, planning, and tactics in gameplay, as well as the realistic simulations of ballistics, firearm mechanics, physics, stamina, and low time to kill.

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Teamfight Tactics

Teamfight Tactics (TFT) is an auto battler game developed and published by Riot Games.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.

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Tellstones: King's Gambit

Tellstones: King's Gambit is a 2020 tabletop game created by Riot Games under their Riot Tabletop division. Riot Games and Tellstones: King's Gambit are League of Legends.

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Tencent

Tencent Holdings Ltd. is a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate and holding company headquartered in Shenzhen. Riot Games and Tencent are video game publishers.

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Tequila Works

Tequila Works S.L. is a Spanish video game developer based in Madrid.

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The Game Awards 2019

The Game Awards 2019 was an award show that honored the best video games of 2019.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Mageseeker

The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story is an action role-playing video game developed by Digital Sun and published by Riot Forge. Riot Games and The Mageseeker are League of Legends.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tiananmen

The Tiananmen (also Tian'anmen, or the Gate of Heaven-Sent Peace, is the entrance gate to the Forbidden City palace complex and Imperial City in the center of Beijing, China. It is widely used as a national symbol. First built during the Ming dynasty in 1420, Tiananmen was the entrance to the Emperor's residence, of which all visitors to the palace walked through.

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Tony Robbins

Anthony Jay Robbins (Mahavoric, born February 29, 1960) is an American author, coach and speaker.

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Twitch (service)

Twitch is an American video live-streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service. Riot Games and Twitter are 2006 establishments in California.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Uyghurs

The Uyghurs, alternatively spelled Uighurs, Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia.

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Valorant

Valorant is a free-to-play first-person tactical hero shooter developed and published by Riot Games.

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Valorant Champions Tour

The Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) is a global competitive esports tournament series for the video game Valorant organised by Riot Games, the game's developers.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Venture capital

Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc.

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VentureBeat

VentureBeat is an American technology website headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.

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Video game design

Video game design is the process of designing the rules and content of video games in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the production stage.

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Video game developer

A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games.

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Video game industry

The video game industry is the tertiary and quaternary sectors of the entertainment industry that specialize in the development, marketing, distribution, monetization and consumer feedback of video games.

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Video game publisher

A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer. Riot Games and video game publisher are video game publishers.

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Vox Media, Inc. is an American mass media company founded in Washington, D.C. with operational headquarters in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Voxel

A voxel is a three-dimensional counterpart to a pixel.

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Wargaming (company)

Wargaming Group Limited (also known as Wargaming.net) is a global video game company headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus.

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Washington Wizards

The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference.

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Xbox One

The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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Xbox Series X and Series S

The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are the fourth generation of consoles in the Xbox series.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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2019–2020 Hong Kong protests

The 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (also known by other names) were a series of demonstrations against the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition.

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2023–2024 video game industry layoffs

Beginning in 2023 and continuing into 2024, the video game industry has experienced mass layoffs.

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See also

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Games

Also known as Brandon Beck, Marc Merrill, Riot (developer), Riot Games, Inc., Rito Games, World of Runeterra.

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