KATSEYE Finds Its Fire in Riot Games’ New Game Changers Anthem
Riot Games has always understood one thing: in esports, music is lore. It’s the emotional shorthand that narrates what era they’re stepping into when they booked KATSEYE for their Game Changers anthem.
This year, the studio draws that line again with “GO OFF,” the new anthem for the VALORANT Game Changers Championship 2025. It’s built on the bones of a global pop hit — KATSEYE’s “M.I.A” — but the track arrives in a form sharpened for competition. Riot asked the group to rethink the song from the ground up, and the result feels like a rallying call.
For Megan of KATSEYE, the collaboration was instinctive.
“When Riot asked us to reimagine M.I.A for Game Changers, as a gamer I was like YES!” she says. She talks about the song’s original message: confidence, self-possession, showing up ready to win,and how it fit seamlessly into the ethos of Game Changers.
“We wanted this version to celebrate every player who’s out there pushing limits and owning their power.”
The music video, released alongside the track, takes that idea even further.
‘GO OFF’ | 2025 VALORANT Game Changers Championship Hype Film Feat. M.I.A. by KATSEYE
The music video builds a narrative around women who live in and around VALORANT, such as competitors, creators, and friends. They’re the people who discover community through the game and stay because they’ve found something bigger than themselves. In the video, determination isn’t romanticized. It’s lived-in. It’s grit that appears only when someone decides to keep showing up.
Megan is an avid player of VALORANT
For Riot, partnering with KATSEYE was personal.
“Working with KATSEYE to give M.I.A a Game Changers twist has been an incredible experience,” says Jonny Altepeter, Lead Music Supervisor at Riot Games. He credits the group’s energy for making the anthem feel alive, but he singles out Megan’s background as a player as the key to the track’s authenticity.
“It’s inspiring to see artists who genuinely connect with our game come together to celebrate Game Changers, a program that continues to empower and elevate our community.”
That community will take center stage again on November 28 to 30, when the VALORANT Game Changers Championship 2025 heads to LoL Park in Seoul. It’s the biggest stage yet for a program that began in 2021 as an experiment in inclusion, and has since reshaped the trajectory of women in VALORANT esports. Berlin and São Paulo hosted the earlier chapters. Each year arrived with its own anthem, its own thesis, and its own declaration of what the scene was becoming.
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