Valorant’s Fracture map will shortly be getting an overhaul. In a brief video on Twitter, Riot Games’ level and game designer Joe “Pearl Hogbash” Lansford outlined the team’s plans, which includes reworking some areas of the map to better balance them for both attacking and defensive players. “So, Fracture’s been …
Read More »Valorants next agent is being compared to Apex Legends Gibraltar following moveset leak
The ability set of Valorant’s next agent might have just leaked online, prompting more than a few comparisons from fans to Apex Legends’ best boy Gibraltar. While the shot of a gameplay screen (opens in new tab) doesn’t reveal much about what one of Valorant’s future agents will look like, …
Read More »Valorant and CS:GO players unite over footage of an absurdly chaotic firefight
Valorant and CS:GO pros are uniting over the sheer quantity of visual interruptions in Riot’s tactical shooter. In a tweet yesterday, Marc-Andre ‘Nismo’ Tayar, a professional Valorant player on the Ghost roster, posted a clip from a recent game against another org, NRG. Immediately after Nismo plants the spike at …
Read More »Valorants “in-game voice communication” monitoring begins next month
We already knew that Riot Games had plans to record Valorant voice chat in a bid to combat toxicity, (opens in new tab) and now that time has arrived. A year after Riot Games first made us aware of its intentions, the company posted a new blog post (opens in …
Read More »Valorant is getting rid of a fan-favourite map next week
Riot Games is removing one of Valorant’s more popular maps next week from some of the FPS game’s most popular modes. The developer has revealed in a blog post (opens in new tab) that Split will be rotated out of competitive and unranked playlists “for now” as they want to …
Read More »Valorant team apologizes for lackluster updates: “We havent been giving you reasons to get excited for the future”
The Valorant team at Riot acknowledged the sense of “frustration” in the community in an apologetic statement following up on an unpopular Q&A post (opens in new tab). Production director Arnar Gylfason shared the statement on Twitter (opens in new tab). “Well, oof, it’s been rough to read the responses …
Read More »League of Legends studio seemingly working on a “brand new AAA title”
Legends of Legends developer Riot is apparently developing a brand new AAA title for consoles. As first picked up by ResetEra (opens in new tab) earlier today on March 30, a job listing on Riot’s official website was seeking a Senior Game Designer to work on a “brand new AAA …
Read More »Valorant game director Joe Ziegler is leaving to work on “something new” at Riot
Valorant game director, Joe Ziegler, is leaving to head up a new project at Riot Games. In a statement (opens in new tab) posted to the official website, Ziegler confirmed he was leaving the game after eight years and passing the reins over to fellow Rioter, Andy Ho. “After eight …
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