THE FUSE

Yesterday, Riot announced that it was ending active development on 2XKO, its League of Legends fighting game, after just one year. The game had its troubles, but it also had a really solid foundation that Riot seemed hellbent on not adequately building upon after laying off staff less than a month after the game’s console launch. Riot abandoning ship wasn’t necessarily a surprise after all this time, but if you’d told a lot of fighting game fans a year ago that 2026’s lineup of promising fighting games would go over as poorly as it has, that would have at least merited a few raised eyebrows.