Radiant Entertainment

Radiant Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Los Altos, California. Founded by twin brothers Tom and Tony Cannon in 2013, the company has developed Stonehearth, a city-building game, which was released in July 2018. Radiant Entertainment was acquired by Riot Games in March 2016.

History
Radiant Entertainment was founded as an indie game developer in Los Altos, California in 2013. Founders and twin brothers Tom and Tony Cannon were previously employed as software engineers for VMware, and started developing video games full-time in 2011. Other pre-Radiant Entertainment ventures by the Cannon twins include the Evolution Championship Series eSports tournament and the GGPO middleware platform for fighting games. Radiant Entertainment launched a Kickstarter campaign for their first game, the city-building game Stonehearth, on April 29, 2013. Initially seeking US$120,000, the funding concluded one month later with a total of US$751,920 pledged by backers. The game was released into early access on June 3, 2015, and it was fully released in July 2018. Following the game's release, in a June 2015 round of seed funding, Radiant Entertainment raised US$4.5 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, London Venture Partners and General Catalyst.

Radiant Entertainment announced their second game, Rising Thunder, a fighting game, on July 20, 2015. To develop the game, the company was joined by Seth Killian, who previously departed from Santa Monica Studio. The game's technical alpha opened to a handful of players at the end of the month, and to the public on August 10. On March 8, 2016, Radiant Entertainment announced through their website that they had been acquired by Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, for an undisclosed sum. Alongside the acquisition, it was announced that Rising Thunder had been canceled and would be effectively shut down on March 18. The development team behind Rising Thunder was subsequently re-allocated to a new, unannounced title. A free, open-source version of the game, titled Rising Thunder: Community Edition, was released on January 18, 2018.