League of Legends: Wild Rift, the mobile version of Riot Games’ hit MOBA title, has reached an important milestone. The game has surpassed $1 billion in lifetime player spending.

Riot Games joins other game companies that have announced layoffs this month. According to the latest report, the League of Legends maker has decided to cut jobs in several divisions.

After more than a decade at Riot Games, Joseph Ziegler has announced his decision to leave the company. He will now be the game director at Destiny developer Bungie.

August Dean Ayala, former Hearthstone game director, has announced his new job. After more than 11 years at Blizzard, he joined the League of Legends team.

Ruckus Games is a new game development studio founded by former Gearbox and Riot employees. The team is now working on a co-op game built with its proprietary technology.

League of Legends: Wild Rift has reached another milestone, remaining the highest grossing mobile game in Riot’s portfolio.

Sprocket is a new studio founded by a group of former Riot Games developers. The team has raised $5 million to build a cross-platform multiplayer title.

Last year, Riot Games agreed to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit for $100 million. Now it has been approved by the court, meaning that women who sued the company will get their compensation.

Riot Games has reached another milestone on mobile. League of Legends: Wild Rift has surpassed $500 million in player spending, according to Sensor Tower. It is the company’s third and most successful mobile title to date.

Juno Blees, senior game producer at Riot, has opened up about mobile game monetization. While not calling out particular titles, she explained the problem with P2W mechanics and developers thinking about revenue KPIs rather than trying to protect players.

Riot Games continues its expansion into the film and music industry. The League of Legends maker has hired former executives from top entertainment companies to help adapt its gaming IPs to other mediums.

In the wake of CD Projekt RED’s announcement to use UE5 for a new Witcher game, we’ve rounded up a few other studios that have switched to Unreal Engine. Epic’s framework provides devs with more opportunities and better documentation, and, importantly, it also makes hiring new people a lot easier.

Riot Games has strengthened its partnership with Fortiche Production by making a new equity investment in the animation studio behind Arcane.

Riot Games has announced a new five-year development plan, also making an unusual offer to its employees. Every worker that doesn’t want to embrace the new strategy and decides to quit the company will receive 25% of their annual salary.

Young developers who tried to get jobs at Riot Games, Rockstar, and Manticore Games fell victim to an unknown group of scammers. The impostors presented themselves as recruiters, showing devs what looked like authentic paperwork, to extort money from them.

Riot Games has announced an acquisition of media technology startup Kanga, which is focused on creating different activities and experiences for audiences of esports franchises. The terms of the deal remain undisclosed.

Just over a month ago, Unity bought AI-driven audio analysis platform OTO to fight toxic behavior in multiplayer games. A month before that, Discord acquired Sentropy, a company behind AI-powered software to detect and remove online harassment. We sat down with Utopia Analytics‘ Sharon Fisher, a veteran in the games moderation space, to discuss the challenges the industry is facing in its quest to make the gaming environment safer.

Riot Games has shared its annual diversity and inclusion report, showing its hiring practices and the share of different groups working at the company.

Box Dragon is a new studio formed by Riot Games and Stunlock Studios former employees. The Coffee Stain-backed team is now working on its debut title.