Riot’s New Fighting Game Is Already Imploding As It Lays Off 80 Developers Less Than a Month After Coming To Console

2XKO hasn’t even finished its first month out on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S and Riot Games is already cutting its losses. The League of Legends maker announced that it would be laying off 80 ...
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2XKO staff laid off as 1.0 release fails to 'support a team of this size long term'

Riot Games stated that it intends to address key improvements with a smaller team and will still support 2026 competitive ...

Riot lays off 2XKO developers less than three weeks after release: 'Overall momentum hasn't reached the level needed to support a team of this size'

Roughly 80 employees are being let go as Riot's long-awaited fighting game fails to catch fire.