Valorant is getting a new agent for its upcoming Act, and her name is Astra. Riot Games revealed Astra’s ability kit on Sunday, and it’s full of cosmic powers, as well as a few familiar effects. Astra’s kit mostly revolves around placing Stars around the map. Stars are small throwable projectiles, which Astra can use […]
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Valorant Adds Astra As Newest Agent
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for—Valorant has added a new agent into the mix. This free-to-play multiplayer, tactical first-person shooter has been growing ever since it was fully released in June of 2020. There were already numerous characters you could play, but since the game’s release, Riot Games has added four new agents. […]
New agent Astra revealed for Valorant alongside battle pass skins
The stars aligned for a new Valorant trailer featuring the latest agent, Astra, who is coming in the second Act of Episode 2. Astra is the fourth controller in the Valorant universe, with her cosmic smoke and concussing abilities. Her abilities center around her Astral Form which players can switch to by pressing X on […]
DataStax’s Astra serverless computing platform hits general availability
DataStax today announced it has launched a serverless instance of its Astra database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering in general availability. The service is based on the open source Apache Cassandra database that has been reimplemented as a set of microservices. The Astra service is based on a version of Cassandra that is deployed on top of Kubernetes […]