A game that is getting a port is its eight-player Auto Chess battler Teamfight Tactics. The mobile game will launch in Q1, and interested players can pre-register on Google Play starting today. New sets of champions and abilities will come to the game “every three or four months” on PC and mobile, with the first set, dubbed Rise of the Elements, scheduled to arrive on November 5th.

The main League of Legends game is getting some new touches too, with a new support character, Senna, who will join the public beta servers on October 29th, and the live servers November 10th. There are new Rise of the Elements tweaks on the way here too, the promise of Ultra Rapid Fire (URF) mode for a limited time and word that nine albums full of music from the game’s seasons are going live on streaming services starting today. Finally, as thanks for existing players — and a call to any lapsed fans out there — there will be prizes for simply logging in every day for ten days, starting on October 17th.

The Legends of Runeterra card game spinoff, meanwhile, will launch “fully” in 2020 on PC and mobile. It’s another free-to-play game which will blend cards based on League characters as well as new ones made just for Runeterra. Hopefully this works out better than Valve’s Artifact effort, and those interested in trying it out can pre-register now.

In non-game news, Riot discussed Arcane, an animated series that will launch next year and follow two of its characters through their origin stories. The League of Legends Origins documentary, separately, is now available for streaming on Netflix.

Oh, and those new games? LoL Esports Manager allows players to sim the experience of guiding a team through the game’s tournament scene, and will launch next year. Three other efforts are more secretive. Project A is a “stylish, competitive, character-based tactical shooter” for PC that’s set to unveil more about its cast of lethal characters and near-future Earth setting next year. Project L is a League of Legends fighting game spin-off, while Project F is “a very early development project that explores the possibilities of traversing the world of Runeterra with your friends.”

Introducing the Proto Pass Update.https://t.co/EhztDHcEKz pic.twitter.com/ErlGZnaK82

— Dota Underlords (@DotaUnderlords) July 12, 2019

In an effort to avoid the issues like the ones that caught out previous Dota 2 spin-off Artifact and Apex — or falling behind other competitors in its turn-based combat genre like Riots’ Teamfight Tactics — Valve has kicked off a “Proto Pass” for beta testers to try. It’s still free, so the developers can figure out what works and squash bugs while players unlock rewards like a new board, banners and emotes. The developers have already mentioned that certain heroes, items and alliances will disappear from season to season, so getting the balance right will take some work.

Otherwise, the game’s latest update also supports Steam invisible mode, just in case you’re supposed to be “working” right now plus various game balancing tweaks and performance updates on mobile devices. The latest update is available now across PC, Android and iOS.

Don’t expect to simply walk right in. Japanese and Oceanic users will need at least a level 10 account to play early on. The missions and client hubs will only be enabled in some regions (including North America and Latin America) a week after Teamfight Tactics is available. Transfers won’t work until July 1st, the practice tool has been disabled, and you can’t have more than 10 players in custom modes. Riot wants to be sure everything is working “as intended,” and doesn’t want to rob people of rewards (like a Little Legend and a beta pass) until then.

If you do play, it might seem familiar. It’s a rough equivalent to the popular Dota Auto Chess mod (and by extension, Dota Underlords) that has eight players choose teams of champions that automatically do battle against each other. Whoever’s the last one standing wins. It’s a blend of strategy, turn-based gaming and even a dash of card gaming, and it’s been rabidly popular — to the point where Riot and Valve both felt compelled to produce official counterparts. There’s no guarantee they’ll be as popular as the original, but that clearly isn’t stopping them from riding the bandwagon.