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Month: November 2021

I’m returning to the Games industry: Director of UX at Riot Games

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Cheryl
The Riot Games logo next to mocks for the new Riot Mobile app.

I left the video game industry in 2007 after shipping over half a dozen titles on every platform you can think of – PC, Game Boy, Nintendo DS, Xbox, PlayStation, GameCube… I was ready for new challenges. I didn’t expect the journey

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