Top e-sports company Riot Games have opened their new Remote Broadcast Centre in a former Dublin nightclub today.
The centre is located in what used to be the Wright Venue nightclub in Airside Retail Park in Swords. And a total of 120 jobs have been created by the international gaming company as part of Project Stryker.
The new roles will include broadcast engineering, production, control crew, and event production. The company already employs 165 people at its Ireland centre.
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John Needham, President of Esports at Riot Games said: “This is truly an exciting day for Riot Games and the future of esports. Project Stryker has come a long way from a visionary concept three years in the making, to this incredible state-of-the-art creative space that further extends Riot’s footprint in the city and showcases the deep ties to entertainment and innovation found in Dublin.
"We could not have selected a better location for our European headquarters for Project Stryker."
The Dublin RBC of Project Stryker serves as a central broadcasting hub for both regional and global live esports productions across Riot’s trio of esports titles: League of Legends Esports, VALORANT Esports, and Wild Rift Esports. Broadcast feeds from live esports competitions happening around the world can be sent to the RBC where the content is produced, broadcast, and distributed in multiple languages.
Ireland is the first of just three global locations chosen by Riot Games as the location for Project Stryker RBCs. The 6,000-plus square metre facility is equipped with six control rooms to enable it to broadcast six live events simultaneously across multiple time zones.
Content is edited in real-time, and each broadcast is also translated into the local language, depending on the country to which it is being broadcast.
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