League of Legends From Riot Games Expands With Animated Series And Fighting Game

League of Legends From Riot Games Expands With Animated Series And Fighting Game Riot Games Celebrates League of Legends 10th Anniversary With Three New Titles Riot Games is launching League of Legends: Wild Rift on Android, iOS and consoles in 2020 along with a few other new games. 

Reports about a mobile game that meant to expand LoL's reach in Asia to started surfacing earlier this year now the developer has confirmed that it's been in the works for quite a while. The company says it took some time to announce Wild Rift, because it's not just a port of LoL for PC. Riot Games chose to rebuild "the whole game from scratch" to create a polished version for the devices it's coming to.

League of Legends is not the first MOBA for mobile or consoles. Arena of Valor and Vainglory are already both popular takes on the formula on iOS and Android. And on consoles, you can play Smite. Other console MOBAs, like Paragon and Battleborn, failed to find an audience.

“We have the benefit of being able to be long term," Marc Merrill, co-founder of the Riot Games, said to The Washington Post. “We don’t have to go push out a product to meet some quarterly deadline or revenue target or whatnot.” Riot is owned by Tencent, a Chinese technology and entertainment conglomerate.

Riot’s League-based card game, called Legends of Runterra, will introduce new League of Legends characters and allow players to directly acquire cards, as opposed to relying on luck through randomized packs. It is scheduled for PC and mobile next year.

“One of the differences between Riot and Blizzard is that, in my understanding, Blizzard loves to make games in terms of being epic," Merrill said, adding that grew up playing Blizzard games. "If Riot were to have a word to describe us, it would be ‘authentic,’ and good at valuing the things that matter most to our players and not doing a bunch of things that, it doesn’t really matter. And I’m not saying Blizzard does that, but we’re trying to be very focused.”

Now, with the forthcoming League of Legends titles, skeptics have more fuel Riot's success. But there's one thing they can't argue: The past ten years have been a snowball.