Valorant started their inaugural season off with a bang by introducing a new map, skins, agent, and cosmetics. The developers have continued this same hype into the second act by releasing yet another agent, a new game mode, and more. Ignition: Act II and its battlepass is set to release on August 4. Act II’s […]
Valorant getting a new ranked system for Act 2
Valorant’s big content updates are divided into Acts, for smaller additions like new Agents, and Episodes, for bigger additions like maps, and the game’s first Act is about to come to an end. Ahead of Act 2, which is likely to start around Aug. 4, Riot Games announced a few changes coming to Valorant’s ranked […]
Valorant Ignition Series: When and where are the next events?
Valorant developer Riot Games announced the Ignition Series last month. The Series has so far seen Riot collaborate with an array of local and global esports brands to host Valorant tournaments all over the world. However, they only initially released details on two upcoming tournaments. With nine events now finished, including two victories for Europe’s G2 […]
VALORANT ranked queue will arrive today
It’s finally here. Riot Games will release VALORANT’s highly-anticipated ranked queue in just a few hours across numerous regions. Ranked will arrive in the North American, Brazilian, and Latin American servers at 4pm CT, Riot announced today. Additionally, Europe, Russia, Turkey, and CIS will get ranked at 10pm CT, while players in Korea, Oceania, and […]
Valorant review: The stripped-down, skill-based shooter that’s only getting started
Few games have ever been as focused as Valorant, the new free-to-play, competitive first-person shooter from Riot Games. The company has wisely decided to shove just about everything that isn’t the gameplay to the side, making Valorant’s excellent mechanical design its most important feature. This approach makes sense. Valorant is Riot’s first game since it […]
Hiko: "VALORANT definitely turned my life around"
After more than a decade playing Counter-Strike, Hiko has moved on. In most traditional sports, a 30-year-old player very well may be right in the middle of their prime. In esports, however, many players at that age, even the ones with numerous accolades, have already retired. For the first several months of 2020, Hiko, a […]
Valorant Devs Announce First Set Of Officially Partnered Esports Events
Riot Games has announced the Valorant Ignition Series, a spotlight program for tournaments based around their competitive first-person-shooter. In a post on the game’s official website members of Riot announced the new series for which it has partnered with over 20 esports organizations. The Ignition Series will focus on spotlighting tournaments each week in addition […]
Valorant Will Get Ranked Mode Very Soon
If you got the chance to play Valorant during its closed beta period, you may have gotten some time in with an early version of its ranked system and Competitive mode. Loading up Valorant now to see that Competitive mode is missing was probably a bit of a surprise–the only modes available to play at […]
Riot Games Launches VALORANT Ignition Series to Jumpstart Ecosystem
Riot Games announced that it has created the “Ignition Series,” a multi-organizational VALORANT event that will see individual tournaments run all over the world. More than 20 esports organizations will create various tournament formats for the competitive 5v5 class-based shooter. The Ignition Series begins June 19 with the European G2 Esports Invitational, presented by Red […]
When Does Valorant Get Ranked Mode?
If you got the chance to play Valorant during its closed beta period, you may have gotten some time in with an early version of its ranked system and Competitive mode. Loading up the newly launched Valorant to see that Competitive mode missing was probably a bit of a surprise–the only modes available to play […]