Allegations of sexism and harassment roil Riot Games

Mattias Lehman was a vocal critic of company culture at Riot Games. He and another outspoken employee were both let go. (Kirk McKoy/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

LOS ANGELES: Riot Games casts itself as the kind of place where gamers dream to work. 

Its tricked-out Los Angeles campus features a pirate-themed coffee bar, a gourmet cafeteria and spare workstations where employees can fire up League of Legends, the company's sole title. In what the company calls its manifesto, Riot says it knows “talented Rioters are the key to everything we do”, and “doing the right thing often means upending the status quo”.