As a part of their 10-year anniversary celebrations for League Of Legends, builders Riot Games have introduced – and everybody act good and shocked now – that they’re growing a combating game. It’s named Lightning Rush, and it’s set within the League Of Legends universe.
If you’re pondering “Wasn’t this announced at EVO in August?” you are correct. Though once I talked about this to a PR individual prematurely of Riot formally saying the game through the press occasion I attended, they had been each understandably tight-lipped and seemingly sad with me contemplating that an announcement.
Still, they haven’t given us far more to go on than EVO founder and Riot worker Tom Cannon did a few months in the past. Not even a screenshot I can embrace right here. But Riot did deign to indicate me one single picture a few weeks in the past and so I’ve carried out my greatest to recreate it for you, trustworthy reader by artfully hacking up a Street Fighter screenshot. Bear in thoughts I do know nothing about combating games or League Of Legends. Or artwork. It nearly definitely wasn’t these characters (if I recall accurately, the girl had distinctly fewer garments), however you get the impression:
“I’m not here to say the game’s coming out any time soon,” Cannon throughout August’s tease, “but I do feel like we’re making progress and I felt like it was only appropriate that we reset the conversation and let everybody know that what you think we’re working on, yeah, that’s actually what we’re working on.”
Alan Bridgeman, the final supervisor for Riot Europe, equally said at this press occasion that there was “no timeline.”
Cannon beforehand based Radiant Entertainment, who had been growing a special combating game known as Rising Thunder earlier than they had been acquired by Riot in 2016. The game was recognized for its accessibility, together with one-button combos. No phrase but on whether or not that’s what Riot are aiming for with Lightning Rush, although they did emphasise accessibility in one in every of their different bulletins, the League Of Legends universe collectable card game Legends Of Runeterra.
