Riot Games has announced that it will be taking over the publishing of League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, starting from January 2023. This brings Riot's total number of self-published games in the region to five, including VALORANT's League of Legends: Wild Rift , and Legends of Runeterra.

While Riot Games self-publishes its games across Southeast Asia, Riot also appoints Taiwan Mobile and VNGGames as the new publishers of League and TFT in Taiwan and Vietnam, respectively.

"League of Legends" first launched in Southeast Asia in 2010, with Riot granting the publishing rights to the game to Garena, a leading global online game developer and publisher. Garena has been developing "League" and "TFT" gradually until they achieved their success and reached the 10th anniversary of "League" in 2019. Since then, Riot Games has launched and self-published new games with their respective esports leagues, including '"VALORANT" and "VALORANT Champions Tour", "League of Legends: Wild Rift" and "Wild Rift Esports", and have also expanded to the entertainment business including new EPs from virtual bands K/DA and Pentakill under Riot Games Music, as well as the animated series "Arcane".

Riot is also continuing to expand its reach with a new operating model focused on the fast-growing Asia Pacific region, where the company has expanded its publishing reach to include Japan and India. In addition to that, Riot is building local offices in key markets such as the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, to increase the company's presence and provide better hyper-localization to players in each market.

"We are grateful for Garena’s partnership and publishing support over the past decade. Their efforts have built an incredible community of League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics players across Southeast Asia, and the games’ success would have been impossible without them.

Over the past few years, Riot has also worked hard to expand our capabilities across the region, building strong local teams and a deep network of partners. We now feel that this is the right time for us to own the publishing of League and TFT in Southeast Asia, as part of our expansion into Asia Pacific.

As we further our focus on being the most player-focused game company in the world, we are excited to bring our players immersive and meaningful experiences, both in and out of game. We are looking forward to seeing our players benefit from a unified Riot ecosystem and look forward to writing the next chapter with them," said Alex Kraynov, Managing Director for APAC, Riot Games.

“We would like to thank Riot and the League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics communities for their tremendous support and partnership in growing both games to the successes they are today in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. We are honoured to have worked together with Riot over the past decade to create the best possible experiences for players, and wish the team every success in this next chapter,” said Kevin Huang, Regional Producer League of Legends, Garena.

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