Shannon Liao
THE WASHINGTON POST – For years, League of Legends has remained on the top of the charts – commanding a robust esports scene, ranking as Twitch’s top live-streamed game and attracting eight million daily players on PC. But try to invite a new player to learn League of Legends and they might have a challenging amount of information to absorb or lack the technical specifications on their computer to run the game smoothly.
Parent company Riot Games aims to give new players more chances to learn and play with League of Legends: Wild Rift on mobile. It came out on Apple’s iOS platform and Android devices in the Americas earlier this year. Riot also has plans to bring the game to console but declined to say when or on which platforms.
Wild Rift is also poised to become a mobile esport, with tournaments starting in Southeast Asia and Europe. Riot said it would have…
