{"id":94274,"date":"2019-05-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/league-of-legends-mobile-rumor\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T18:00:00","slug":"league-of-legends-for-mobile-is-in-the-works-from-riot-and-tencent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/29\/league-of-legends-for-mobile-is-in-the-works-from-riot-and-tencent\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Legends for mobile is in the works from Riot and Tencent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/league-of-legends-for-mobile-is-in-the-works-from-riot-and-tencent.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"author\">By Ian Boudreau<\/span> <span class=\"date\">29 May 2019<\/span> <\/p>\n<div id=\"content-container\">\n<p>Reuters, of all places, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-tencent-holdings-videogames-idUSKCN1SS0ZJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke the news last week<\/a> that Riot Games is currently working with parent company Tencent on an official mobile version of their massively-popular MOBA <em>League of Legends<\/em>, although it&#8217;s as yet unclear when we&#8217;ll be able to get our hands on it.<\/p>\n<p>As the Reuters story explains, the idea of creating a mobile version of Riot\u2019s hit game has been a tendentious one between the two companies, with Riot initially resisting the idea of bringing <em>League of Legends<\/em> to phones and Tencent pushing the idea, based on its massive success with its similarly-structured mobile game <em>Honour of Kings<\/em>. However, the western version of&nbsp;<em>Honour of Kings,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Arena of Valor<\/em>, has been a bit of a flop outside Asian markets and Tencent has given up promoting it in the west just two years after its launch, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/chinese_video_game_giant_tencent_reportedly_gives_up_on_arena_of_valor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report by Nintendo Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8fwwGCr1-po]<\/p>\n<p>With revenues for <em>League of Legends<\/em> slipping &#8211; mind, it still cleared $1.4 billion last year alone &#8211; Riot is now more open to the idea, and one of Reuters\u2019 sources says the project has been in the works for a year.<\/p>\n<p>However, another source says not to expect a mobile <em>League of Legends<\/em> this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ian Boudreau 29 May 2019 Reuters, of all places, broke the news last week that Riot Games is currently working with parent company Tencent on an official mobile version of their massively-popular MOBA League of Legends, although it&#8217;s as yet unclear when we&#8217;ll be able to get our hands on it. As the Reuters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}