Riot confirms rumors of fighting game development at Evo 2019 Riot GamesRiot employee Tom Cannon confirmed that the studio was working on a new fighting game at EVO 2019 on August 2. August 2 1:24 PM PST UPDATE Riot Games released an official statement on the upcoming game shortly after Cannon\u2019s revealed the project. \u201cRiot Games is excited to confirm that we\u2019re developing a fighting game,\u201d the studio said in the release. \u201cWe have experienced the profound impact this genre can have on players and want to bring the fighting game experience to more people.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re working hard to create a game truly worthy of the vibrant fighting game community and are making progress,\u201d they continued. \u201cBut still have a long way to go before we\u2019re ready to share more details.\u201d Original article follows Cannon \u2013 who\u2019s also one of the founders of EVO \u2013 dropped the news live on stream and instantly got fans hyped. He and his team who developed a fighting game called Rising Thunder were brought onto Riot in 2016 and speculation has been going among fans for the reason ever since. What is Rising Thunder and why are they at Riot? Rising Thunder was the Cannon brothers\u2019 fighting game, developed with accessibility in mind \u2013 all moves could be performed with a single button press, making it one of the most intuitive fighters ever released. The pair was picked up by Riot Games with the thought of developing a new title for Riot, long rumored to be the fighting game announced at EVO 2019. Rising Thunder had some trouble gaining momentum when it was in Alpha, but it only had a few characters at the time. Read More: \u2018The Room\u2019 star Tommy Wiseau comes to Mixer – Some small tournaments were held for the game, but with Riot\u2019s full backing, they have the best shot of bringing fighters to the masses \u2014 something many developers have tried and ultimately failed to do. Riot fans have been clamoring for a League of Legends fighting game for some time now, but the closest we\u2019ve come is community made games so far. Cannon didn\u2019t say much about the upcoming fighting game other than it was being produced by Riot, but a League-themed fighter would make a lot of sense for the company to appeal to their fans. \u201cI can confirm we\u2019re working on a fighting game for Riot,\u201d Cannon told the shocked EVO casters. Breaking: EVO founder and Riot employee Tom Cannon has confirmed the worst kept secret in gaming \u2013 Riot is officially working on a fighting game, the first game outside of League of Legends for Riot pic.twitter.com\/P3BGaVs4u4 \u2014 Rod Breslau (@Slasher) August 2, 2019 Now that the game has officially been confirmed fans will be eagerly awaiting and searching for any leaks and details they can turn up on the new game. Being Riot\u2019s first new game since the release of League of Legends, the still-unnamed fighting game is already getting people hyped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Riot confirms rumors of fighting game development at Evo 2019 Riot GamesRiot employee Tom Cannon confirmed that the studio was working on a new fighting game at EVO 2019 on August 2. August 2 1:24 PM PST UPDATE Riot Games released an official statement on the upcoming game shortly after Cannon\u2019s revealed the project. \u201cRiot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}