The tournament will feature esports professionals of all types from various communities in an eight-team, three-day clash that will be sponsored by HyperX and streamed exclusively on ESPN Esports' Twitch channel.
"Right now we like what this character can bring to the game and with some adjustments and the community adapting to these adjustments overall it will be a great thing”
Today's panel, 'Riot's New Esports Titles', will be hosted by Inven Global Director of Corporate Strategy Nick D'Orazio and will focus on the new titles League of Legends developer Riot Games is rolling out in the coming months, as well as the potential competitive space for these new games. The panel will go live on Inven Global's Twitch channel on Friday, April 17 at 2:00pm PT.
"After about 2 minutes of that, the conversation turns to video games, esports, competitive gaming, and industry wins and fails."
Three core pillars — competitive integrity, accessibility, and authenticity — will guide the growth of the esport to ensure aspiring pro players will have a fair shot to reach the highest level of play through merit-based competition.
Starting today, April 14, all VALORANT Twitch streams can drop access to the upcoming game's Closed Beta, as long as the stream in question is streaming VALORANT.
Stephanie "missharvey" Harvey, known for her success competing in Counter Strike 1.6 hosted the first all-female Valorant tourney last Sunday.
VALORANT servers will be down for maintenance to patch up map exploits and audio bugs.
And one of the most recent bugs hilarity is only matched by its lethality. Behold, the DIY Cypher gun turret:
VALORANT has rolled out its beta testing phase just last week and fans are already looking for data to mine. Riot Games has confirmed that for its official launch this Summer, they would be including two new agents as well as one new map.
Esports streaming platform Juked is hosting an early VALORANT tournament for North American players of Riot Games' new strategic shooter. The NA Quick Cup, sponsored by Inven Global and Shopify, sees
Cosplayers Peyton Riley and Glory Lamothe have brought agents Viper and Jett to life through the art of costume making.
TL will host the Liquid ProAm VALORANT Showmatch today, Friday April 10, at 12:00pm PT via https://www.twitch.tv/teamliquid.
"The below clip features the coms of "Team Mendo" directly after a match against "Team Aceu". Below, you can hear a sentiment shared by many members of the ever-growing VALORANT competitive community. Raze is very overpowered and in need of a balance patch"
There is a lot of excitement for Riot Games' new shooter VALORANT. So much even, that some with access to its currently ongoing closed beta stage saw an opportunity to make a lot of money by trying to
Riot Games today announced the highly anticipated first-person tactical shooter, VALORANT, broke Twitch’s single-day hours watched record in a single game category within the first hours of the Closed Beta launch, the company reported in a press release.
On Tuesday morning, Riot Game's take on the FPS genre, Valorant, entered closed beta globally and, while many were able to begin playing, many others were riddled with error messages that prevented them from even logging into the game successfully. Numerous error codes began flooding social media platforms and the game's official subReddit shortly after the closed beta was turned on. The most common, Error 43, allows players to launch the beta client but didn't allow them to get into the main menu or do anything else. While others can be fixed by reinstalling the game, rebooting their client or restarting their computer, Error 43 is one that Riot is working to tackle internally as thousands of individuals who were given access to the closed beta are struggling to play the game they've been waiting for months to try out.
VALORANT is about carefully sneaking around a small map waiting for a brief but explosive moment of action and danger. Players die within seconds and "abilities" are just extra perks that ultimately enhance vicious and precise gunplay. Winston mains are going to have a very rough time hopping over to VALORANT.
Riot Games' upcoming first-person shooter VALORANT enters its closed beta status today. At 2 PM CEST / 5 AM PST, the servers go live and those lucky enough to get beta access can dive in and explore t
If you've got your eyes on a VALORANT beta code, but you still don't know who you want to play, check out this guide for Sage, one of the more supportive agents. If you have a tactical mind, but slow fingers, Sage is a great agent to start with. Watch our Agent rundown to see more on how Sage is best utilized:
