Riot Games has announced that active development on 2XKO will end at the end of 2026. >The servers will stay online after 2026. >Lux and Samira will be added later this year. >All champions will be unlocked for everyone. >Players will get refunds for money spent on 2XKO on or before August 20. Riot says there aren’t enough players sticking with the game to make it sustainable.

Riot Platforms(@RiotPlatforms) keeps selling $BTC. In the first half of 2026, Riot Platforms sold a total of 9,665 $BTC ($732.46M) at an average price of $75,785.

Riot Platforms $RIOT price target raised to $22 from $20 at JPMorgan JPMorgan raised the firm's price target on Riot Platforms to $22 from $20 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares. The company is "building momentum" with an Anthropic lease signed at "attractive economics," the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm says execution of Riot's AMD lease remains on track.

Riot Taps its Bitcoin Treasury To Fund Data Center Expansion Bitcoin miner, Riot Platforms has sold 4,300 bitcoin:native to finance operations and expand its data center infrastructure, according to its Q2, 2026 report. The miner remains a major Bitcoin holder despite the latest reduction in its treasury. Riot now holds 11,380 BTC, with 5,821 BTC pledged as collateral. The company produced 1,587 BTC in the second quarter at an average cost of $49,912.

Riot Games explained that the new Vanguard update is designed only to stop advanced cheating devices, not to harm normal computers. Some cheaters use special external hardware called DMA devices to secretly access game data and avoid detection. Vanguard now blocks those devices by using a standard Windows security feature called IOMMU protection. For regular players, nothing changes: >Your PC will not be damaged. >Normal hardware and software are unaffected. >Games and programs will work normally if you are not using cheating hardware. The DMA devices themselves are not destroyed or damaged. They just can’t be used to cheat in games like Valorant and League of Legends anymore. Riot says the goal of the update is to reduce cheating and keep matches fair.