Riot Games CEO Nicolas Laurent accused of gender-based harassment, misconduct in new lawsuit

In 2018, Riot Games, the developer and publisher behind games such as "League of Legends" and "Valorant," made headlines after a Kotaku exposé about the company's culture of sexism. The article outlined an environment in which women were regularly passed over for promotions, and a company with an ingrained "bro culture," where demeaning and discriminatory behavior was viewed as normal. Kotaku's story led to a class action gender discrimination lawsuit. It also spawned two separate investigations by regulators in California, where Riot is based.