Riot Video games’ co-founder and former CEO is its new president of video games. Marc Merrill, who co-founded the League of Legends studio again in 2006 with Brandon Beck, will quickly oversee all of its ongoing and future gaming initiatives, Merrill introduced on Twitter on Thursday.
The president of video games position will put Merrill on the head of Riot’s now intensive checklist of titles. In keeping with tweets from Riot CEO, Nicolo Laurent, Merrill will oversee League of Legends, Valorant, Teamfight Techniques, Wild Rift, and Legends of Runeterra, in addition to Riot’s checklist of in-development titles just like the combating sport Undertaking L and the unnamed Runeterra MMO. Riot’s additionally infamous for having fairly a number of initiatives in varied levels of analysis and growth at any given time, which Merrill can even oversee.
In a press release on Merrill’s new position, Laurent stated, “we’ve bold objectives for Riot’s subsequent part of progress — it’s actually only the start for our dwell video games and we additionally plan to enter a number of different, very totally different genres — and Marc is the right individual to steer our video games groups in delivering these unbelievable experiences for gamers.”
Merrill was Riot’s CEO till 2017, when he and Beck moved to the roles of co-chairmen. Since then, Merrill has labored on varied initiatives all through the corporate, together with League of Legends’ 10 12 months Anniversary occasion in 2019, the place Riot first confirmed a few of its upcoming video games, together with Valorant. Merrill additionally performed an essential position beginning Riot’s leisure division and producing its animated Netflix collection, Arcane, which was launched final 12 months to essential and business acclaim.
This new place will see Merrill transfer away from bigger initiatives like these, in favor of engaged on the day-to-day growth of all of Riot’s titles.