Valorant Archives

Riot Games has released a new update this morning for Valorant as the team has put in a ton of bug fixes toward the agents Patch 4.11 has added the new Clutch Mute feature into the game to help players mass mute several people at once, which is about the only primary addition this time[...]

Gen.G revealed today they will be holding a special Valorant tournament featuring female-identifying and nonbinary gamers Partnering up with Tampax and Always, the Astral Clash will be taking place over the summer There will first be two online qualifiers, which will happen June 17th-19th and July 15th-17th, which will round the competition down to four[...]

Riot Games revealed the locations of two new Valorant esports events today as more details came out for the Masters II and Champions Tournaments First off, the Masters II will be taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark as they will continue to see who is good enough to make it through some of the toughest challenges[...]

Riot Games decided to release a new awesome animated video for Valorant this week as we get a far better look at the backstory to Viper We have the video down at the bottom, but essentially we're getting a short and dangerous look into the character's past and the way that she came up, to[...]

Riot Games has released the latest update for Valorant today, as Episode Four – Act One has been added with several updates Along with the latest character addition of Neon, seen below, you're getting a ton o mechanics changes, a new battle pass, the Protocol 781-A skin line, and much more We have a snippet[...]

Some interesting news out of Riot Games this morning as the game director for Valorant, Joe Ziegler, has announced he's leaving the game In a short letter, which we have for you below, Ziegler addressed the fans letting them know that he would be departing the game he helped build from the ground up over[...]

Red Bull and Riot Games have come together for a new partnership deal, making them one of the leading sponsors for Valorant in North America The two companies have worked together on several esports ventures in the past and have decided to press on into the next season The shorthand to the deal is they[...]

Paidia has teamed up with streamer MissHarvey to hold a special all-women Valorant tournament this weekend for a good cause During this Thanksgiving weekend (November 27th-28th), six teams will compete for a chance to claim bragging rights along with some prize money that will be split between the winning teams and their chosen charities[...]

This evening, Team Liquid can add another trophy to the case as they won the Red Bull Home Ground Valorant tournament in London The final match was intense as TL (who had already overcome Fnatic and Tenstar in shutout victories) went toe-to-toe with Tense (who pulled off the same feat against Gambit and Vodafone Giants),[...]

Red Bull Home Ground revealed more details today about their upcoming Valorant tournament as the event kicks off tomorrow in London Sixteen teams are going head-to-head in this tournament to crown a new champ of the series, with the first broadcast beginning on Thursday at 12pm GMT (8am EST) The first group match on the[...]

Red Bull has brought back their Valorant invitational tournament as the Red Bull Home Ground returns this November The company has sent out invitations to 15 teams for this one, which will take place in London from November 4th-7th, 2021 Those teams include G2 Esports, Guild Esports, Team Liquid, Vodafone GIANTS, Tenstar, Acend, Futbolist, fnatic,[...]

Red Bull has revealed their full lineup of talent that will be taking part in their Valorant-centric Campus Clutch World Final This coming Saturday, 12 teams will enter the offline tourney in Madrid, and will feature an exclusive live audience and appearances from a number of leading figures in esports That roster includes Oscar "mixwell"[...]

Riot Games is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Valorant by revealing that the game will be coming to mobile devices soon The company made the announcement, albeit briefly, in their celebration of the game reaching one year with a successful esports platform and playerbase to back it up Eventually when it releases it will be[...]

ReedPop and Metro Esports have announced this morning they're forming a new Valorant esports team to debut at PAX West But this is no ordinary team as they are looking to build a diverse co-ed team that will be unlike many of the other teams you see compete in the game Metro will be hosting[...]

In a move that we're sure will have thousands of trolls scrambling to learn all they can about the FCC, Valorant is now recording voice chat That's right, in case you happen to be racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and just a terrible person in general, Riot Games will now have your comments, on record, for them[...]

Riot Games revealed today that both the League Of Legends' MSI and Valorant's Stage 2 Masters live events are headed to Iceland This is the first time both competitions will head to Iceland as they will be held in the city of Reykjavik The MSI, which was canceled last year due to the pandemic, will[...]

Valorant has a new agent on the way named Astra, and now we have an idea of how she'll work out in the game The character barely got a reveal trailer yesterday showing off some of her skills in the game, as it appears she has the ability to bend time and space a bit[...]

This week the Valorant Esports team revealed a new program called VCT Game Changers for women and other marginalized genders The program will be a supplement to the competitive season by creating new opportunities and exposure within the game This system has been in the works since the For The Women (FTW) Summer Showdown Ignition[...]

Riot Games looks to be cleaning house in Valorant in a few different ways as the next update is going to clear out AFK players The team posted a new set of patch notes that will come with Patch 2.04, in which they will be going after a few different types of player offenses The[...]

Red Bull revealed this week that they're throwing a new Home Ground esports series and will kick it off with a Valorant Invitational This will mark one of the first major official sponsored tournaments of the year from the comnpany The event will be running qualifiers this weekend, followed by the main event taking place[...]

Riot Games revealed last week that they will be holding a new esports event next year with the 2021 Valorant Champions Tour The event will be structured as a season-long competition featuring bouts in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia A kickoff date hasn't been set yet, all we know is that[...]

Riot Games has revealed the finer details of their upcoming Valorant: First Strike event including how to qualify and the prize pool First off, we now know the prize pool will be $100k, so a decent chunk of cash is on the line for this one The competition will begin on October 26th with the[...]

Riot Games revealed this past week they will be launching their own official esports competition for Valorant called First Strike First Strike will be a global set of tournaments taking place across North America, Europe, CIS, Turkey, Asia, Oceania, Brazil, and the Middle East Each region will be holding merit-based qualifiers culminating with multiple Riot-produced[...]

Enjoy all of it while you can before the act comes to an end. Eat more ramen, get those skins, and take over the site with no mercy! Courtesy of Riot Games. Act II Battlepass: The Valorant Act II Battlepass is a way to customize your Valorant experience The Act II Battlepass will contain a series of[...]

Riot Games revealed today that the next new agent to come to Valorant will be a German genius tinkerer known as Killjoy This is more of a lockdown character as you'll be using her to take over key areas of the map ahead of time and make sure anyone that enters them pays a hefty[...]

Some cool news for Valorant players as Riot Games has partnered up with the PAX Arena to host a $250k invitational tournament The event is being called the PAX Arena Valorant Invitational Powered By Seagate, and it will run from July 22nd-26th as part of Riot's first Ignition Series of tournaments The event will bring[...]

Nerd Street Gamers along with T1 have announced a new esports event as the Valorant Showdown event will happen over the next two weeks The event will be part of the Ignition Series and will take place over two weekends happening from June 20-21, then culminating between June 26-28 The tournament prize pool, which will[...]

Some good news for console players as Riot Games is apparently in the process of testing Valorant for release on console The news comes from GameSpot who posted snippets of an interview with Anna Donlon, the game's Executive Producer, about their plans to get the game onto the PS4, Switch, and Xbox One It seems testing[...]

This morning, Riot Games officially launched Valorant for everyone to play for free, along with a brand new trailer for the game The much talked about 5v5 first-person tactical shooter has been all the rage on Twitch the last couple months as players have been beta testing the game with audiences watching it in droves[...]

As Riot Games prepares to release Valorant onto the public, the devs have revealed a brand new map on the way The map is being called Ascent, and as you can see has a lot more complexity to it than the one players have been using in the testing phase Just looking at the map[...]