Riot Video games’ League of Legends, Valorant, Teamfight Ways, and Legends of Runeterra at the moment are obtainable to obtain from the Epic Video games Retailer, the 2 corporations introduced Thursday. They’re free to obtain and play, identical to they’re from Riot. While you get them from the Epic Video games Retailer, your laptop will set up the Riot Consumer, Riot’s new unified launcher, which is the place you may truly set up and launch the person video games.
This isn’t the primary time Epic has provided a technique to get one other firm’s launcher; you’ve been capable of obtain the Itch.io launcher from the Epic Video games Retailer since April. Epic’s willingness to incorporate apps with different launchers is in keeping with CEO Tim Sweeney’s long-standing help for extra open app distribution fashions. It’s one thing Sweeney instantly emailed Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner to advocate for on iOS, and Epic can be locked in authorized battles with Apple and Google after it added a direct cost system to Fortnite in violation of the 2 corporations’ guidelines.
Including Riot titles brings video games within the massively common League of Legends franchise to the Epic Video games Retailer, they usually might see an added increase by being obtainable on Epic’s platform. However I’m not kidding after I say the League franchise is already enormous: Riot shared this week that 180 million gamers performed video games set within the League of Legends universe simply in October.
That quantity isn’t precisely what it appears, as Riot is together with the cell hit League of Legends: Wild Rift and counting a single one who performs two of its video games as two separate gamers, in keeping with PC Gamer. It’s nonetheless a big variety of gamers, although, and Riot is making a giant push to develop that quantity much more.
Epic and Riot teamed up on a Fortnite pores and skin for the League of Legends character Jinx, which can be obtainable from the sport’s merchandise store on Thursday. And the Fortnite pores and skin and the Riot titles on the Epic Video games Retailer arrive forward of Arcane, the League of Legends TV present premiering November sixth on Netflix.