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Riot Games has revealed the official title for its free-to-play, 2D fighter League of Legends spin-off: 2XKO.<\/p>\n

If you’re in any doubt, it’s pronounced how it’s spelled, Riot<\/a> said over on X. Previously it had been referred to as Project L.<\/p>\n

I’m going to assume the name is supposed to mean “two KOs”, given 2XKO is a 2v2 tag-based fighting game. That also means my brain will call the game 2KO rather than 2XKO. I’m starting to fear this might be a “née Project L” situation…<\/p>\n

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Riot Games has revealed the official title for its free-to-play, 2D fighter League of Legends spin-off: 2XKO. If you’re in any doubt, it’s pronounced how it’s spelled, Riot said over on X. Previously it had been referred to as Project L. I’m going to assume the name is supposed to mean “two KOs”, given 2XKO is a 2v2 tag-based fighting game. That also means my brain will call the game 2KO rather than 2XKO. I’m starting to fear this might be a “née Project L” situation… Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[10303,222,160,59,45,1445,4616],"class_list":["post-754356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-2xko-project-l","tag-fighting","tag-free-to-play","tag-pc","tag-ps5","tag-riot-games","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"\nLeague of Legends free-to-play fighter officially named 2XKO | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Riot Games has revealed the official title for its free-to-play, 2D fighter League of Legends spin-off: 2XKO.If you're in any doubt, it's pronounced how\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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