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Valorant Spotlight
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Valorant Review: A Compelling Counter Strike
Riot Games' foray into FPS territory is solid, even if it's slim at the moment.
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MIX UP "I wouldn't rule it out" Valorant producer hints towards agents coming to 2XKO
Following the conclusion of Valorant Masters Madrid, a curveball 2XKO question actually gets an answer.
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NO MONEY, NO PROBLEM The best free-to-play games to try in 2024
Here are some good games for you to play without the need to splash the cash.
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The best FPS games to play in 2024
Sometimes, you just need to pop some heads.
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MIX UP | "I wouldn't rule it out" Valorant producer hints towards agents coming to 2XKO
Following the conclusion of Valorant Masters Madrid, a curveball 2XKO question actually gets an answer.
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LAYOFFS AGAIN | Riot lays off over 500 staff, with Legends of Runeterra and Forge indie initiative teams hit hard
"This isn’t to appease shareholders or to hit a quarterly earnings number—it’s a necessity."
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IT'S GOJOVER | Valorant's newest character is straight out of Jujutsu Kaisen
Domain expansion: Killing Contract.
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KINGDOM COME | Valorant's progressing system is changing, here's how
Agent Contracts are leaving Valorant, in favour of new ways to progress being added.
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Keep It 100 | Valorant gets a Team Deathmatch mode this month after a long wait
The mode arrives at the end of the month.
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WINGMAN CLUTCHES | Valorant reveals new Agent, Gekko, and his adorable abilities
Move over, Sage. We’ve got Wingman now.
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TACTICAL XP FARM | How to earn extra XP in Valorant’s Squad Boost event
It’s time to get the gang back together.
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RIOT SHIELD | Riot Games is suing NetEase over Valorant clone, Hyper Front
Hyper Front is a "copy of substantial parts of Valorant."
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RIOT GAME PASS | Valorant is finally coming to Xbox Game Pass next week with bonuses, alongside Riot's biggest games
Players that link their accounts will receive extra in-game rewards.
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LAST LOOKS | Valorant’s Chamber is finally being nerfed in upcoming patch
Respect is due for all the mourning Chamber mains.
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PREPARE FOR HELLFIRE | New job listings suggest Valorant could be coming to consoles
As well as some leaks, of course.
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ROAST IN THE MACHINE | Riot Games and Ubisoft team up in AI research project — using player chat logs as training data
Results of this research are set to be published next year.
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PRAWN POSTURE | Can the Secretlab Titan EVO 2022 Series VALORANT Edition chair fix a person who refuses to sit normally?
The short answer is no, but I’m getting there.
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SKIN IN THE GAME | Are Valorant skins pay-to-win? Esports coaches, players and CEOs weigh in
Can a skin really influence your mindset and mood so much that it helps you win competitive games? We investigate.
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Valorant announces new Champions bundle, event pass, and Twitch drops, here's how to claim
To celebrate Valorant Champions 2022, a new pass, bundle, and Twitch drops are being introduced.
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Merci beaucoup | Valorant nerfs Chamber and updates its engine in patch 5.03
You want to play? Let’s play… with considerably longer cooldown times.
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Twitter shares the most tweeted about games during 2022 so far
There were approximately 1.5 billion tweets about gaming on Twitter during the first half of the year.
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Watch Your Eyes! | Valorant's latest patch finally buffs Phoenix, makes further changes to Yoru and KAY/O
New fight, new tactics. Keep it fresh, yeah?
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Tapping in | Riot Games will soon start monitoring Valorant voice chat in an attempt to curb toxicity
It'll be rolled out across other Riot Games in the future.
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comic calamity | Valorant reveal Comic Crossover event to celebrate new map launch
The event will feature a free, exclusive battle pass.
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Vitamin Sea | Here's our hands-on first impressions of Valorant's new map, PEARL
We got to spend some time with Valorant's new map, PEARL, and here's what we thought.
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UNDER THE SEA | Valorant reveal new map, PEARL, an Ascendant rank, and sci-fi inspired skin line
Riot Games gave us a look at what to expect from Episode 5, Act 1.
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Split Apart | Valorant is removing Split from the map pool
The map should hopefully return sometime in future, but there's no telling when.
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What A Racket | Riot brings League of Legends, Valorant, and more to Game Pass
All of the titles will have bonuses such as unlocked characters too.
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Taking control | Valorant removes randomness from map selection, killing back-to-back Icebox at last
Unless you're very, very unlucky.
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keep it hot | Riot will buff Valorant’s Phoenix and Cypher, per Reddit AMA
The Valorant team recently talked about all things Fade, game balancing, and Agents in general.
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RGX FIREFLY PLEASE | Valorant Episode 4 Act 3 announced with Fade, Battlepass and RGX 2 bundle revealed
Valorant players are in for a treat this upcoming Act.
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Bloody Nora | Valorant’s latest update teases Agent 20 with map changes in The Range
The Agents have been hard at work, it seems.
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Initiation Time | Valorant agent 20 leak spills details on BountyHunter
Leaks exposing the twentieth Agent have surfaced, so here’s our rundown of everything we know about BountyHunter so far.
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Valorant Changes | Valorant director leaving development of the game to work on something new
What he’s now going to work on is a mystery, though it will still be with Riot Games.
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Staying Power | Grand Theft Auto 5 is the most watched game on Twitch in 2021
The statistic shows the massive tail that the game has.
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One in the chamber | Valorant is gaining its newest character today with Chamber
As the 17th agent to join the cast, Chamber comes alongside several gameplay changes in the 3.10 patch
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With Launch Behind It, Riot is Already Looking Ahead to Valorant's Next Decade
Valorant Game Director Joe Ziegler talks new modes, player feedback, and being willing to disrupt the meta.
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Valorant Review: A Compelling Counter Strike
Riot Games' foray into FPS territory is solid, even if it's slim at the moment.
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