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If you're looking for the best Valorant settings to help you dominate the server and start popping off for multi-kills with your favorite agent, we have you covered. As a competitive shooter, Valorant ...

Perfect your PC performance with these recommended settings from the VALORANT community. VALORANT is a PC game through and through. If you’re not using a mouse and keyboard, you’re toast — precision ...

The Valorant meta is but a newborn child, a lump of unformed baby strategies waiting to mature into a Real Boy. But because Riot's first FPS shares so much DNA with Counter-Strike, some longstanding ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. A new set of patch notes has been released for Valorant, ...

Callista fell in love with video games as soon as she could hold a controller—a Gamecube controller, to be exact. She grew up playing a wide variety of genres across the industry, from Call of Duty to ...

Valorant fans have a new imminent update. It’s been a big year for the game so far and it has finally come out for everyone to enjoy on PlayStation and Xbox consoles. This is the first patch for the ...

VALORANT is expanding fast since its console version launched in August 2024. A Mobile release will soon follow, bringing the game to more devices than ever. VALORANT Patch 10.10 will begin unifying ...

Valorant has been on the competitive PC shooter scene for awhile now. With the popular game heading to consoles soon, players want to know if Valorant is going to support cross-play on the PS5, Xbox ...

This post offers working fixes to the BootstrapPackagedGame error that some PC gamers have reported they encounter when they try to launch Valorant on their Windows ...

With the best gaming PC for Valorant you’ll be able to dominate in the deathmatch and pulversie in premier. Valorant has maintained its popularity since its release and every day more and more gamers ...

Riot Games' new esports-ready FPS Valorant had the biggest free-to-play launch in PC gaming history, analyst firm SuperData reports. Weeks after release, Valorant has stolen the spotlight away from ...