After launching in English late last year, Riftbound, Riot Games’ League of Legends trading card game (TCG), has quickly grown into one of the most popular TCGs to date. The game had a big presence at this year’s Gen Con, featuring not one but two large booths that fans could stop by to learn to play, meet some of their favorite creators, and buy convention-exclusive merch.<\/p>\n
During the show, GameSpot had the opportunity to sit down with Riftbound game director Dave Guskin to chat about some of the game’s history and where we go from here. Talking about League of Legend’s massive roster, GameSpot’s Jessica Cogswell was curious is if adding new Legends to Riftbound was an intimidating task when pulling from the source material’s over 170-characters.<\/p>\n
“No, it’s so great! I love it,” Guskin said. “I mean, the more things there are that players love and want to connect with, the better it is for us. I think for me, it’s like, ‘Man, how do we make sure we hit all of these so that the players who love a specific champion get to play that one.” I think eventually we will hit all the champions in League of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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