After cutting half of 2XKO's team less than 30 days from launch, I have to ask: how can any of us get behind a new Riot game ever again?
After cutting half of 2XKO's team less than 30 days from launch, I have to ask: how can any of us get behind a new Riot game ever again? Riot Games is "downsizing" a substantial number of developers from the team that has been working on 2XKO, the fighting game that only launched less than a month ago. Roughly 80 staff will be either transferred to other teams at Riot, or laid off with six months' severance pay. In a statement posted on the Riot Games website, 2XKO executive producer Tom Cannon broke the news to the public.
Eurogamer11.02.2026release