Watch a full match of League of Legends fighting game Project L

Project L, Riot Games’ upcoming free-to-play League of Legends fighting game, features a “duo play” system that lets two players be on the same team during a 2v2 tag-team match. Tag-team fighting games aren’t a new concept; games like Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Dragon Ball FighterZ are shining examples of fighting games that let players swap characters mid-match. Still, allowing two players to work together on the same team is quite rare in the genre and has definitely never been done on the scale of something like Project L, even if the idea makes sense because League of Legends is a team-based game. This duo play system means players must work together to build on what each team member does during a match. For example, tagging out or jumping in to add to a combo at the right time. To enhance that, Project L features a Fuse system that gives each team unique synergies, like having two times the amount of assist actions or combining each character’s ultimate attacks together. If you want to see these systems in action, Riot Games also put out gameplay of a full match. Thankfully, for those who prefer to play alone (or not with random players), Riot Games confirmed that 1v1 or 1v2 matches are possible. Still, this “duo play” system is clearly one of the main gimmicks of Riot Games’ upcoming fighting game and a way the developers really want players to experience the game. In terms of when people can actually play the game, there will be a demo featuring four characters on the show floor at Evo this year. Executive Producer Tom Cannon also promises to reveal more about the game “soon” in the Duo Play reveal video, so hopefully, an official title, beta, and full release for Project L aren’t too far off. Honor of Kings isn’t exactly a new game. In fact, it’s the largest mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, with more than 200 million registered players. And it’s finally coming to a global audience after years of being limited to a select few countries. The biggest draw of Tencent’s flagship MOBA is its mobile-friendly gameplay with short games, perfect for commutes and short breaks. Similar to League of Legends: Wild Rift, it shrinks the typical MOBA experience down to a more digestible version. At Summer Game Fest, I tried out the tutorial and a bot game with one of the characters. Based on that taste, Honor of Kings seems to deliver what it promises: a concise, streamlined MOBA game that ends within 15 to 20 minutes, and features enough variety so that the matches don’t feel repetitive. After spending years under the working title of Project L, Riot Games’ expansion into the fighting game genre has officially been dubbed 2XKO. Hailing from the makers of the massively popular League of Legends, this fighter will feature a cast pulled right from that MOBA, but now using far different mechanics. This genre was once notorious for how hard it was for newcomers to get into, but recent examples like Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 have proven that it is possible to make the genre accessible to more players. Considering the popularity of the source material here, and the fact that it will be free to play, we expect a lot of players who normally don’t touch fighters to at least be curious. Whoever you are, let’s start at round one and go over everything we know so far about 2XKO.
Release date window Along with the reveal of the title’s full name, we also learned that 2XKO is set to arrive sometime in 2025. That leaves a lot of room, so odds are the team is giving itself plenty of time to iron out any issues.
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