Now, just over a week later Riot Games has put out another patch for Valorant, though patch 1.01 seems just a bit lighter than the previous 1.0 patch. Though the patch has fewer notes listed, this patch still brings about some important changes, including a noteworthy nerf to one specific agent: Sage. RELATED: Valorant Console Port Possible As many players are well aware, Valorant had an extremely successful beta period, despite it only lasting about two months....
Numerous videos and articles around the web questioned whether Fortnite would be able to hold its spot in the battle royale genre, or would Valorant sweep Fortnite right off its feet. It has now been a little over a month since Valorant closed beta was first made available. The game is currently available on PC, and whether Valorant will release on PS4 / Console anytime soon is still unknown....
Effective from January 1, 2021, Newbee can no longer participate in any Valve organized tournaments. The ban further extends to all the five players of Newbee, Xu “Moogy” HanYin “AQ” RuiWen “Wizard” LipengYan “Waixi” ChaoZeng “Faith” Hongda The match in question is the second game from the SLI Minor Season 3 China Qualifier’s upper bracket, between Newbee and Avengerls. What should have been a comfortable win for Newbee, turned into an utter disappointment for the entire community....
The Steam Deck has been a revelation for many handheld gaming fans since its reveal earlier this month, with the console offering Steam users the ability to play their substantial library of games on the move. Notably, the Steam Deck is putting itself forward as a powerhouse in the handheld gaming sphere, boasting a brand new AMD 2.4-3.5GHz CPU and 1-1.6GHz GPU, as well as LPDDR5 memory. This is compared to the Nintendo Switch, which is running a 1GHz CPU and a 307-768MHz GPU, as well as offering games at 720p resolution in comparison to the Steam Deck’s 800p....
Instead, Valve realized that those gamers who are participating in the beta want nothing more than to be able to show their friends the matches they’ve experience, and, therefore, are going to give them that. That isn’t to say that Valve will stop rolling out new heroes for DotA 2, or that they feel the game is done, they just want to give diehard fans the chance to play the game and talk about it....
A large portion of the manga-reading demographic tend to be on the younger side on average, so the characters are written to match that. That said, a lot of series would be more enjoyable overall if the characters were just a bit older, mature, and not in the same high school setting every time. In fact, here are some of the best examples. 7 My Hero Academia Imagine if My Hero Academia wasn’t constantly dealing with relatively safe concepts of schoolyard bullying, first loves, or characters getting babied by adults?...
“Babies are taught to be racist or antiracist—there’s no neutrality,” writes Kendi in his children’s board book, using the same simplistic rubric for babies that propelled him to fame with his adult book How to Be an Antiracist. What the binary really implies is that racism is not a behavior, a worldview, or a choice; it is an innate condition, something white people must work to overcome from birth. For Kendi and the millions of Americans buying his books, we cannot inhabit a racially neutral space of, say, a person who treats all people with dignity and respect....
If a few recent tournaments are something to go by, we can clearly see how popular the game has gotten in just a few months. However, this is not all that surprising. Valorant is by far one of the most accessible tactical first-person shooter games to have hit the gaming industry in a very long time. It mixes both the elements of CS: GO and Overwatch, and creates a platform which fans from different FPS genres will be able to enjoy....
The gaming world has been holding its breath since Valve confirmed that they’d be making three major announcements in the near future, and now, it seems the first bombshell has been dropped. Fans of Half-Life 3 will be disappointed, as will those hoping to see an all-out announcement of the long-rumored Steam Box. It’s been no secret that Valve plans to bring gaming to living rooms around the world, and with the newly-announced (and completely free) SteamOS, they’ll be using Linux to do it....
Valve is fulfilling a very specific interest with the Steam Deck: portable gaming based on players’ Steam library. Sure, there is the argument for just playing on a laptop, but the Steam Deck is meant to provide a bit more convenience and comfort without compromising game performance. Obviously there are games that can only be played with mouse and keyboard with zero room for a gamepad support, but that is what the Steam Deck Compatability System is for, so that players can know which games will run well on the device, and those that won’t....
Despite Valve’s insistence that it had not infringed on any patents or intellectual property, the jury decided otherwise and ordered the company to pay $4 million in damages to Ironburg. The plaintiff’s lawyer, Robert Becker, had argued that Valve’s actions were akin to the Biblical story of David and Goliath. “Goliath does what Goliath wants to do,” he stated. RELATED: Valve, Game Publishers Fined for Breaching Antitrust Rules Back in 2014, a prototype of Valve’s Steam Controller was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES....
A tweet from HTC’s VR product specialist, Shen Ye, confirmed that the HTC Vive shifted 15,000 units in just 10 minutes after the device became available to pre-order. Unlike the Oculus Rift, which completely sold out not long after its pre-orders began (new pre-orders will not get Rift headsets until July), the HTC Vive still appears to be available, though that does equal a sizeable $12 million for HTC and Valve, the company it partnered up with the make the device....
President Joe Biden was supposed to usher in the era of adults in charge again, after a Donald Trump presidency that saw scandal after scandal and seemed to thrive on chaos. But in the wake of a bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan that continued a slide of Biden’s poll numbers, exacerbated by the ongoing uphill battle against COVID-19 and the Delta variant, Democrats are worried about a wipeout in the midterm elections next year....
In a rollercoaster decider inside a quiet Arthur Ashe Stadium, Thiem — playing his fourth major final — eventually closed out a 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) victory. The Austrian became the first player to rally from two sets down to win a U.S. Open final in the Open Era, and first since 1949. Thiem is also the first man born in the 1990s to win a Grand Slam, needing more than four hours in the first U....
According to Valkyrae herself, her contract with YouTube expires on Saturday, January 15, and she still has to stream for a whopping 198 hours before it’s up. Valkyrae asked her Twitter followers what she should stream and asked if there was anyone that wants to play with her to help knock out those 198 hours. The tweet amassed over 100,000 likes and over 1,000 replies as people threw out suggestions for how Valkyrae can reach her 198 hour obligation by January 15....
RELATED: Underrated Square Enix Games You Forgot Existed New players can come to the latest in the Valkyrie Profile series with fresh eyes. Valkyrie Elysium has a unique story, so there’s no need to go back and play the other games to enjoy it. However, the Valkyrie Profile series is fascinating, creating some incredible games (and some misfires, too, most notably the no longer functional Valkyrie Anatomia: Origins). While not every game was a smash-hit success, the Valkyrie Profile games tend to have deep lore, interesting characters, and emotive storytelling....
He has loved streaming the game ever since the first day of the beta launch. n0thing has been raking up some amazing highlight clips ever since the game released. n0thing started his professional career with Evil Geniuses, while he secured his first-place win at the 2007 CPL Winter under X3O Gaming. After some years, he shifted to the latest iteration of Global Offensive. There he joined Complexity Gaming, and then finally had a 4-year spell with Cloud9....
Since the debut of Harbor in Riot’s popular 5v5 online FPS title and induction into the Valorant Protocol, the primary direction of the in-game narrative has been to find the lost city of immense power on Omega Earth. The developers have carefully weaved the tale through emails, voice recordings, and pictures over the months, and now the newest addition to the map pool is almost here. Riot Games showcases Astra and Harbor reaching new map ‘Lotus’ in Valorant Episode 6 Revelation cinematic Before the cinematic premiere, we could hear Skye fighting against assailants to give Astra and Harbor space to reach the ‘City of Flowers’ or ‘Lotus....
Fracture finds itself in a very strange place; recent maps added to the game have largely been unconventional, but still maintained ties to the Counter-Strike-adjacent design language. Fracture, unlike Icebox and more recenlty Breeze, is far different than any other Valorant map to date because of its distinctive design and format. Every new map added to the game has pushed the boundary of Valorant’s map structure to a formative degree, but Fracture is the first time the game seemingly borrows inspiration from comparatively unconventional shooters....
Williams were expected to fight for the best-of-the-rest tag alongside Ferrari, behind the seemingly unassailable Mercedes. Practice timings did little to deter from this assumption with Massa fifth and Bottas sixth quickest in FP3 earlier today. However, when race hit the track in the first part of Q2, Williams started moving down the pecking order, eventually qualifying in seventh(Massa) and ninth(Bottas). “I am a little disappointed with how the day turned out,’’ said Bottas....
