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Arcane's showrunners would like to shake things up after 9 years, which is part of why it's ending with Season 2

Riot's co-founder also says "there are lots of other stories to tell".

PC Gamer

League of Legends creator clears up "confusion" over Arcane's 'five-season plan': "Arcane was always written to be two seasons"

Marc Merrill debunks rumors over Arcane's story length

Total Film

Arcane season 2 is rewriting the 'truth' of some vital League of Legends lore, but the Netflix show's creators deny they're breaking the game series' canon

Arcane's creators "aren't troubling" themselves with how season 2 revises some major League of Legends lore.

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Following Arcane's season 2 premiere, Riot drops our first look at Jinx's moves in fighting game 2XKO

Jinx wields guns, bombs, and rockets in the upcoming LoL fighting game.

PC Gamer

Arcane creators admit the show was never meant to run for 5 seasons, it was a joke that got out of hand: 'Nothing but tomfoolery'

"It was never the plan for it to last five seasons."

PC Gamer

Riot has been slowly chipping away at build creativity in League of Legends, all in the name of balance, but there are better solutions

Patch notes are all fun and games, until they kill and bury a unique item build.

PC Gamer

Netflix Just Quietly Released The Most Explosive Steampunk Epic of the Year

The final chapter of 'Arcane' isn't going down without a fight. Read our review of Season 2 Act 1, streaming now.

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'That was never the plan': Arcane creators dismiss claims that the hit Netflix show was going to run for five seasons

Arcane's showrunners have poured cold water on rumors that it was initially going to last for five seasons.

TechRadar

Arcane, Riot's two-season League of Legends animated series, reportedly cost $250 million to make

That figure makes it the most expensive animated series every produced.

PC Gamer

Riot Games hired Avengers directors the Russo brothers to help make a League of Legends movie, but reportedly paid them $5 million to walk away after script issues

A League of Legends movie was in the works back in 2020

Total Film

Netflix's Arcane is the most expensive animated show ever made – with a reported $250 million price tag

Season 2 arrives this month

Total Film

The LoL MMO has "a lot of momentum" and "a great direction," despite going dark for a reset earlier this year

Riot co-founder Marc Merrill is pouring his time into the project

GamesRadar

15 Years Later, the Most Influential Video Game of the Century Is Still Going Strong

Fifteen years after Riot Games released League, a little upstart that resembled Dota 2, launched on October 27, 2009, millions of people still play the game every day.

Inverse

8 huge questions I need Arcane season 2 to answer before the highly-rated Netflix show ends

Arcane season 2 needs to unravel these big mysteries before the highly-rated series comes to a close.

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Will these PC games ever come to Steam? We predict the chances of WoW, Minecraft, and more

Get on your soothsaying hats. We're predicting futures.

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I've got high hopes for this League of Legends and Overwatch-fueled Steam Next Fest hit, but I'm worried history will repeat itself

Supervive was a smash - but it did seem pretty familiar

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League of Legends' new champion is a giga-busted Arcane crossover whose kit is so overtuned that even pros are running scared: "Honestly what the f*** at this point"

Ambessa is the natural endpoint of LoL's 14-year struggle with mobility creep

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League of Legends fans baffled as Riot lays off more devs - including the $500 Ahri skin designer - only to unveil a gacha-fueled $250 Arcane skin 24 hours later

League players could spend up to 32,000 RP trying to get the Arcane Fractured Jinx skin

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Riot announces new League of Legends exalted skins tier days after more layoffs, but you can't get it the usual way—instead, you'll have to roll the dice

A new price to pay.

PC Gamer

Riot Games lays off more employees but says the League of Legends team will be 'even larger' in the future

Riot says the cuts are "about making sure we have the right expertise so that League continues to be great."

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"This isn’t about reducing headcount to save money." Riot Games is laying off even more workers on the League of Legends team.

Riot Games is cutting more staff on the League of Legends team, but the company leadership insists it's not about saving money and that the teams will eventually be even bigger.

GamesRadar

Riot announces "an update on how we're evolving" League of Legends, which is of course another layoff announcement

"It's about making sure we have the right expertise so that League continues to be great for another 15 years and beyond"

PC Gamer

Flashy MOBA battle royale Supervive is opening its doors during Steam Next Fest—and it's already got that Blizzard/Riot polish from its expat devs in spades

Complex, frenetic MOBA brawling for the MLG hounds.

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"We have squeezed literally every ounce of everything we could get out of UE4"; Anna Donlon announces that Valorant will move to Unreal Engine 5

Anna Donlon, SVP and head of Valorant studios for Riot Games, has announced that the popular and highly competitive first-person shooter will be ported from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.

PC Gamer

As SAG-AFTRA's anti-AI voice actor strike extends to League of Legends, Riot maintains that it's been simply been caught in the crossfire

"League of Legends has only asked Formosa to engage with Union performers."

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