League of Legends is Coming to Mobiles, Consoles in 2022

After a decade of being bachelor exclusively to PC gamers, the cult multiplayer online boxing arena (MOBA) game, League of Legends, is finally coming to smartphones and gaming consoles. At the 10th anniversary celebrations of the popular franchise, Los Angeles-based video game publisher, Riot Games, announced that a new game based on the League of Legends universe volition before long hit mobile devices and game consoles.

Called Wild Rift, the new title will be largely similar to the archetype game, but with some tweaks for the new platforms, including a new twin-stick control scheme, a new map and shorter matches that should take effectually xv-xx minutes each. According to Anarchism: "Wild Rift is non a port of LoL on PC. It is a new game built from scratch to ensure information technology is a polished, legitimate LoL feel that'southward worth players' time". Wild Rift will hitting smartphones in 2020, but there's no ETA for the console version(southward) just yet.

Alongside Wild Rift, Riot also announced a slew of other games to be released next year. All of those, bar one, are based in the League of Legends universe and, will feature the popular characters from the franchise. According to the company, the new titles will include a card game, a fighting game, multiplayer online battle loonshit game, open-globe game and an e-sports simulator.

The only exception to the norm is an yet-untitled game codenamed 'Project A' that'south said to be a tactical shooter forth the lines of Rainbow Six Siege or Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Talking to Washington Post virtually Anarchism'due south upcoming roster, the visitor'due south co-founder, Marc Merrill, said: "We accept the benefit of beingness able to be long term. We don't accept to go push out a product to meet some quarterly deadline or acquirement target or whatnot".