Riot Games Completes Acquisition of Wargaming Sydney Development Studio

Riot Games completed the acquisition, Warisming Sydney changed its name to Riot Sydney (photo: Riot games)

JAKARTA - Riot Games, the development studio and well-known video game publisher League of Legends announced that it has completed its acquisition of Wargaming Sydney on Monday, 17 October.

The completion of this acquisition will see Wargaming Sydney renamed Riot Sydney, and will be a global development studio with experience creating next generation game development tools and servers.

Riot Sydney is expected to deliver the world's leading and hit games, with several R&D projects and prototypes for new game features, add-ons and consoles.

“We are very excited to bring this talented developer and team to Riot,” said Marc Merrill, Co-Founder and President of Games in a statement on Riot Games' official website.

Riot Games is going to the land down under! 🇦🇺

Find out more about our acquisition of Wargaming Sydney Studio and the formation of Riot Sydney in the latest blog post: https://t.co/hI0iu2h4Bx pic.twitter.com/a85Zjv7OJh

— Life @ Riot (@LifeAtRiot) October 17, 2022

According to him, the workers with the Sydney team members are very confident, not only in the technology they have built over the years, but also in the people who have built it.

"Like Naz (Naresh Hirani, Head of Development, Riot Sydney), and the development team at the studio have a long history of working in ways that will complement Riot's ability to deliver value to our players and we look forward to collaborating with them."

The newly founded Riot Sydney will use their expertise to further enhance its games League of Legends, VALORANT and the tech team at Riot.

With this acquisition, Riot hopes to expand the game industry in Australia as well as explore opportunities to add expert talent to other well-known gaming veterans' studios.

“Being a part of Wargaming has been a phenomenal journey for us over the last 10 years, and it has helped our studio grow and thrive,” said Naz.

Naz said he was impressed by the cultural compatibility with everyone at Riot. naz believes that Riot will help provide players with a great experience.

Riot Sydney studios will be one of the largest game development studios in Australia and have worked on World of Tanks, World of Warships and many more titles on console and PC.

The company says that this acquisition has been going on for 10 years, when Bigworld decided to join Wargaming and help the studio create some of the world's most popular games.

Finally, the entire studio development staff will join Riot Sydney, while the existing publishing team will remain a part of Wargaming.