Our latest coverage of Valorant.
Valorant Game Director Joe Ziegler has left the dev team for Riot Games’ popular online tactical shooter to work on a different unnamed project for the studio. According to Ziegler’s farewell message, he will be replaced by Senior Director Andy Ho who has been working with Riot for more than a decade. “After eight years of working on Valorant, building [...]
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Valorant is celebrating its first birthday this week, and like a proud parent, Riot Games reveals that the tactical first-person shooter has logged over 14 million active players on PC and half a billion games played in just its first year. “After a record-breaking closed beta debut and successful global launch, VALORANT quickly established itself as a global fan-favorite, emerging [...]
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Last week’s major Valorant update saw the debut of the newest agent, Yoru, and the start of Season 2 among other things. Patch 2.01, while smaller in comparison, introduces significant structural changes to the Split map to make it more balanced for the attacking team. “This Split update is focused around improving attacker options on the map, as well as [...]
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Riot Games has just announced that they will be releasing Valorant – Act 2 tomorrow. Act 2 will come with a new Deathmatch mode and a new Battlepass reward track. The Battlepass will cost 1000 VP and will feature the new Glitchpop gun skins, gun buddies, sprays, player cards, player titles, and Radianite points. “Glitchpop was an opportunity for us [...]
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Maintaining game balance is a never-ending task for PvP game developers, especially competitive ones like Valorant. Riot Games, however, has a different approach when it comes to rolling out balance changes. The studio says that they don't rely solely on metrics and data but also consider how the players feel about a particular Agent. “Game balance is something that every [...]
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Valorant, Riot Games’ highly-awaited competitive online shooter, has officially launched worldwide. As expected, player have hit a few snags as soon as the servers came online. These include error codes, server instability, problems with unlocking battle pass rewards and skins, and missing Valorant Points purchased during closed beta. Riot Games acknowledged the problems on Twitter saying that they’re on the [...]
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Riot Games’ Valorant is finally launching early next month after nearly two months in closed beta. The studio announced that the highly-awaited competitive shooter will officially be opening its doors on June 2nd. The announcement was made via a new dev update video and a lengthy blog with some pertinent launch information. The blog also goes into detail about the [...]
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In spite of the community’s qualms about the Vanguard anti-cheat system and background process employed by Valorant, it seems to be doing a good job in weeding out players with a blatant disregard for the rules. According to a tweet from Riot Games Anti-Cheat Engineer Phillip Koskinas, 8,873 have been banned for cheating since the game started closed beta tests [...]
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Earlier this month, Riot Games’ upcoming shooter Valorant broke the Twitch record for the most number of hours watch in one day for a single game. Twitch streamers raked in a total of 34 million hours on April 7th and peaked at over 1.7 million concurrent viewers even though the game is still in a limited closed beta. The record-breaking [...]
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With Riot Games marketing Valorant as a competitive shooter, we’ll probably be seeing the game enter the eSports scene sometime after its official launch. In anticipation of this, Riot has laid down a number of ground rules for tournament organizers. It includes a requirement that the “Show Blood” option be turned off for all broadcasted eSports tournaments. Riot has also [...]
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