Riot Games is building on its own internal efforts to crank out more games in the League of Legends universe by starting up a new publishing label that encourages smaller studios to do the same.
Riot Games was, for the longest time, a single-game studio seemingly focused primarily on keeping League of Legends alive and well.
“Those types of games are fundamentally different to the completable games that Riot Forge is focused on.
“Making live service, competitive games requires a certain skillset which Riot is an expert in,” Loombe says.