Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. Valorant was a chance to start again. He knew he would have ...

Riot's marketing strategy has undoubtedly helped to fuel the fire. Valorant's presence on Twitch has been near impossible to avoid, thanks to its beta key drop integration. Viewer counts soared for ...

When Riot Games released League of Legends back in 2009, the MOBA genre was still small, and in need of a game to come along and define just how great it could be. But when Riot announced a shooter ...

Valorant and CS:GO pros are uniting over the sheer quantity of visual interruptions in Riot's tactical shooter. In a tweet yesterday, Marc-Andre 'Nismo' Tayar, a professional Valorant player on the ...

Late last night the embargo broke for Riot’s Project A, where part of that reveal is that the game is actually called Valorant, which leaked out several hours earlier. It’s one of a few new non-League ...

Valorant may draw a lot of inspiration from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but it's adding a lot to the formula - and a recent exhibition tournament between the game's developers and an elite group ...

Andrew Webster is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. “It only makes sense to ...

Like many others, I've been caught up in the Valorant hype these past few weeks. Twitch's most popular streamers received keys for the game before the closed beta launched on April 7, so my very first ...

On Sunday night, Riot Games revealed the first details about its new free-to-play first-person shooter title, Valorant, coming this summer. Previously codenamed "Project A," Valorant is a ...

The Escapist compares CS2 vs VALORANT based on their release dates, gameplay, graphics, audience, platforms, and more to see ...

Mehrdad (He/Him) is a Senior Staff Writer from Iran. He started writing about video games when he was a high-school student. He loves playing competitive FPS games such as Rainbow Six Siege and ...