Riot Games was co-founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill.
They partnered with Steve "Guinsoo" Feak, the previous designer of
the popular Warcraft III custom map Defence
of the Ancients, and Steve "Pendragon" Mescon, the administrator of
the former official support base for the map to develop League Of Legends. Guinsoo made DotA All-stars by inserting his
own mix of content, greatly expanding the number of the heroes, and adding
recipes, numerous items and various game play changes. League of Legends was
born "when a couple of very active DotA community members believed that
the game play was so much fun and so innovative that it represented the
spawning of a new genre and deserved to be its own professional game with
significantly enhanced features and around-game services. Riot Games officially opened its office in
September 2006, and currently has over 1000 people working on League of Legends. The game
was in a closed beta from April 10, 2009, to October 22, 2009. It then
transitioned to open beta until release. In March 2013, Riot Games
released a beta version of an OS X client in addition to their Windows client.
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