Riot Sydney

Micro Forté was founded in 1985 with the purpose of developing world-class AAA computer games. The company is one of Australia’s leading game developers with development studios in Sydney and Canberra. Micro Forté develops innovative, quality technology and computer games with high design and production values.

Micro Forté is committed to ongoing research and development focusing on new technology for emerging games markets. Micro Forté’s, award winning BigWorld’ Technology represents the most scalable, fault-tolerant, and customisable MMOG middleware available anywhere in the world. Very few developers in the world can boast of such technology. In 2002 Micro Forté was the Australian winner of the The Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Award (APICTA), in the Creative Digital Industries category, for its BigWorld’ Technology. Micro Forté also won the Cisco Systems Innovation Category of the 2001 Telstra and ACT Government Small Business Awards for its outstanding technology.

Micro Forté employs some of the best Australian talent, and provides a fantastic game development culture with a strong working environment. Micro Forté’s developers have worked on multiplatform game development projects, original titles as well as franchises.

Micro Forté enjoys a strong leadership position in the Australian games industry, having founded the Academy of Interactive Entertainment Ltd (AIE), Australia's leading educational institution for computer game developers. Micro Forté is also responsible for the creation of the Australian Game Developers Conference and the Game Developers Association Australia, both key players in Australia's ever-growing interactive entertainment industry.

On 17 October 2022 Riot Games announced the acquisition of the studio. It was renamed Riot Sidney.