
"Rising Thunder is a F2P fighting game for PC from the founders of EVO". "Rising Thunder is a new fighting game from Seth Killian". "Radiant Entertainment raises $4.5m in seed funding". "Stonehearth's development will end this month, without meeting all its Kickstarter stretch goals". "Stonehearth is out now on Steam Early Access". "Stonehearth Kickstarter gets successfully funded, and then some". "Evo founders launch Kickstarter for new game Stonehearth". "EVO founders Kickstart first game, Stonehearth". " Stonehearth studio nets $4.5M to keep making PC games". "They Changed Fighting Games, Now They're Making Something New". In August 2019, Tom Cannon announced that Radiant was developing another fighting game, revealed in October to be set in the League of Legends universe and codenamed " Project L". A freeware version of Rising Thunder, dubbed the "community edition", was released in January 2018 with open-source servers. The development team behind Rising Thunder was re-allocated to a new, unannounced project. Alongside the acquisition, Rising Thunder was canceled and consequently shut down later that month.

On March 8, 2016, Radiant announced that it had been acquired by Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, for an undisclosed sum. A "technical alpha" was opened to a handful of players at the end of the month and to the general public in August. It was a fighting game created by Seth Killian, who had joined the studio after departing Santa Monica Studio. Radiant's second game, Rising Thunder, was announced in July 2015. In a June 2015 round of seed funding, Radiant raised $4.5 million from investors Andreessen Horowitz, London Venture Partners, and General Catalyst. Stonehearth was made available in early access in June 2015 and released in July 2018, although some development goals from the Kickstarter campaign were left unfulfilled. The funding concluded one month later with a total of $751,920 pledged by backers. The studio launched a crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter for Stonehearth, a city-building game, in 2013, initially seeking US$120,000. They were most recently employed as software engineers for VMware but quit their jobs in 2011 to develop video games full-time, founding Radiant in Los Altos, California. They had previously launched the Evolution Championship Series (Evo), an esports tournament for fighting games, and developed GGPO, a fighting game middleware platform.

Radiant Entertainment was founded by twin brothers Tom and Tony Cannon. The game was later replaced by a freeware "community edition" in January 2018. Radiant was acquired by Riot Games in March 2016 and Radiant's second game, Rising Thunder, was canceled during its alpha phase. Founded by twin brothers Tom and Tony Cannon in 2011, the company has developed Stonehearth, a city-building game, which was released in July 2018 after three years in early access. is an American video game developer based in Los Altos, California.
