The League of Legends: Clash of Fates Preview on 1UP offers a Q&A with Steve "Guinsoo" Feak of Riot Games about League of Legends: Clash of Fates, and the Defense of the Ancients modification for Warcraft III that served as its inspiration and helped create a sub-genre: "When I first started releasing DotA-Allstars maps, I had no way of knowing how popular the game would eventually become. Even before it became as wildly popular as it is today, after working on it for years, I knew that this was really an emerging genre that had the legs to be its own title. It was thus the realization of a dream for me to get the opportunity to work on League of Legends and to help make the title what all of the fans hope it will be. We've been working on League of Legends for over two years now, and I've seen the game grow from a proof of concept to a beautiful and fun game. I can't wait for users to be able to experience it."