Riot Games, the studio behind it League of Legends and Valorant, is developing a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
Thursday, Greg Street, Riot’s vice president of intellectual property and entertainment, said on Twitter that his “recent job with Riot was to help develop the League universe.”
“Because it’s time,” added Street. “My new job is to start a big (some might say gigantic) game that many of you, and a lot of Rioters, have asked us to make.” When asked if that “huge” project is an MMO, Street confirmed that it is. Polygon separately confirmed with a Riot Games representative that the company is developing a MMORPG.
While Street didn’t provide details, the MMO will take place in the world of Runeterra, the same universe that League of Legends and other Riot Games titles take place in. Street’s Twitter bio says he oversees League of Legends, Riot Forge ownership and is creative for it Arcane, the animated series of the League. Street worked for Blizzard as lead systems designer for World of Warcraft from 2008 to 2013, so he’s no newbie to the MMORPG scene.
Over the past two years, Riot Games has released multiple new games, including a digital card game, an autobattler game mode for League, and a first-person shooter. The company’s 10th anniversary stream also showed off the upcoming fighting game and an action RPG that both use League of Legends characters. None of these projects have received public updates since the 10th anniversary showcase.
In 2018, Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill tweeted asking if the company should work on one League of Legends MMO, but later said it wouldn’t happen soon. Since then jokes about one League MMO stuck, but now it’s all confirmed.