For those invested in the lore, the 5v5 map is set in a French castle town transformed into a radianite salt mining facility. Corrode is set in the climate-ravaged world of Omega Earth, making this ...

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VALORANT is now 5 years old, and the Riot Games team is cooking up meta balances and updates to keep combat fresh. A new Dev Update has arrived, teasing long-awaited changes like a Replay System, ...

Valorant offers strategic depth through map-specific team compositions. Fracture and Lotus maps favor aggressive and simple strategies, respectively. Pearl benefits from unconventional compositions, ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. Riot Games has revealed the new Valorant map, Sunset, at ...

VALORANT’s map design has always walked a tight line between innovation and frustration. With much criticism from fans, Riot has never been happy with a simple three-lane layout, as seen in most FPS ...