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Considering the fact that many people recently found themselves with free time and a desire to escape reality, you might think it’d be easy to launch a new video game during the shutdown that accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic. But Riot Games’ Nikki Lewis and Casey Clough will be the first to tell you that this was not the case.

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