Why the site exists
Riot announced a Runeterra MMO in 2020 and reset the project in 2024. It has confirmed very little since.
What tends to fill that gap is the 2021 pitch retold in the present tense, undated, with no link back to where any of it was said. A reader arriving cold cannot tell a four-year-old developer post from last week's forum rumour, because nothing on the page distinguishes them.
The method here is narrower than it sounds. Every claim gets a date and a label saying how solid it is, plus a link to the primary document it came from. Where nobody knows, the article says nobody knows.
Who writes this
Runeterra.org is a small team working on the site full time. We have followed Riot's games for years, and the unannounced Runeterra MMO since it was announced in December 2020.
Most of the work happens before a sentence is written. Job listings, developer interviews, trademark filings, Universe pages, a comment on a livestream: each of those becomes a dated note, with a source and a label, before it can appear on the site. When Riot is silent, which is most of the time, we go back through what was already said and check whether it still holds.
None of us work for Riot Games. We have no access to anything that is not already public. The site exists so that a reader does not have to reconstruct that public record from forum posts and four-year-old trailers.
The masthead names the two editors, says who owns the site, and states how it is funded, which is not at all.
How an article is built
Underneath the site sits a record of individual facts, one note each, carrying a date, a source and a status. Articles are built from that record and not from other people's articles, which is why a given fact keeps the same date and the same label everywhere it turns up.
Every draft then goes through a mechanical check before it can reach the site. That check rejects an article citing a source outside the permitted list. It rejects one that links to another article not published yet, and one that falls short of the word count for its type. It also carries a blacklist of stock phrases and inflated vocabulary, and throws out anything containing them.
Articles are finished ahead of time and released on a timer, one every thirty-six hours. The date on an article is the day it went live.
What the labels mean
Four labels, and the wording of each article says which one applies.
Confirmed: Riot said it, or it can be checked against something Riot published. Reported: the press reported it, and Riot has neither confirmed nor denied it. Pre-reset: it held before the 2024 reset and may not hold now. Rumour: one source, usually anonymous, named in the text with the date it surfaced.
An article that mixes the four without telling them apart does not get published.
Which sources we cite
The list at the foot of an article holds primary material only. Riot's own sites, a developer's own post, an interview where the statement was actually made, a public record such as a trademark filing or a job advert.
What another outlet wrote does not go in that list. Where a claim rests on press reporting, the article says so in its own paragraph and gives the date.
Corrections
When something here turns out to be wrong, the article gets edited and the page carries an "Updated" date from then on. There are no silent edits.
Write to contact@runeterra.org to report an error. The most useful message is the one naming the primary source we missed.
Not affiliated with Riot Games
Runeterra.org is an independent, unofficial fan site, with no access to anything Riot has not made public. It is not affiliated with Riot Games and not endorsed by Riot Games.
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