With the highly-anticipated debut of League of Legends' first animated series, Arcane, set for the coming weekend, Riot Games has looked for every opportunity to promote Runeterra's first full-fledged animated series. Several trailers have been released for the series following the Piltover sheriffs Caitlyn and Vi and their battles with the maniacal Jinx and Riot recently announced a League event celebrating Arcane's release. Now, Riot is partnering with PUBG Mobile to bring the Arcane celebration to a whole new audience.
PUBG Mobile has been no stranger to unique and wild collaborations throughout the game's history. The mobile shooter that helped to popularize the battle royale genre has often collaborated with the biggest pop culture events. The game has previously featured several crossovers with popular movies and series like Godzilla vs. Kong and The Walking Dead and the game has even featured cosmetics based on the viral Baby Shark videos. Now, PUBG Mobile has joined together to bring some of League of Legends' most iconic characters into the mobile title.
PUBG Mobile announced Tuesday through the game's official Twitter account that the game would feature a crossover event with League of Legends and Arcane set to begin later this month. The event is set to start on November 16th and will see League of Legends champions Jinx, Vi, Caitlyn, and Jayce all added to the battle royale shooter. While little information was given on how the gameplay of the characters will translate into PUBG Mobile, the short teaser trailer spliced scenes from Arcane's stylized trailers with PUBG Mobile's cinematic CGI.
Riot Games has been heavily promoting the upcoming Arcane with some of the company's first forays into outside collaborations. In another battle royale crossover, a notable Fortnite dataminer revealed that League's Jinx would be coming to Fortnite as a skin in the near future. League of Legends' own RiotX Arcane event will also feature a several weeks-long celebration of the series' premiere packed with free League of Legends skins, a visual update for Caitlyn, and plenty more.
Riot Games isn't the only company in this ambitious collaboration making ventures into the animated market. Krafton Inc. similarly announced earlier this year that PUBG Battlegrounds would be receiving its own animated series. The PUBG animated series was revealed in July and was announced to be directed by Adi Shankar, the producer behind the popular Netflix adaptation of Castlevania. PUBG has been one of the most popular games since its release in 2017 and the collaboration with Riot Games should bring even more new fans into the game.
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