Riot Games’ new Twitter bot lets players create custom ‘Valorant’ banners

Riot Games has revealed future plans for its new multiplayer FPS, Valorant, including new agents, maps and more.The company recently released a new Dev Diary update, featuring executive producer Anna Donlon. She detailed how Valorant will roll out new content, as well as what players can expect from each update.Donlon revealed that major Valorant updates will launch every six months in “episodes”, with each of those being divided into three “acts” lasting two months each.

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Former Riot Games product lead Michael Chu has partnered with indie games veteran Ryan Sullivan on Treehouse Games, a new venture designed to bring people together through multiplayer, collaborative gameplay. The company, which has raised $2.6 million in a seed funding round led by London Venture Partners (LVP), will be headquartered in Los Angeles and aims to serve a global audience of players.

Riot Games has revealed that it will introduce buffs for the agent Viper in its upcoming patch for Valorant.Valorant lead character designer Ryan “Morello” Scott revealed the updates during a Twitch livestream. The balance changes will affect two of Viper’s abilities: Snake Bite and Toxic Screen.Snake Bite will be receiving a new mechanic called “Fragie”, which is said to be a debuff that will increase the damage taken by inflected characters.

Valorant at Riot Games has confirmed that it will be implementing a surrender option soon.The surrender option will come in handy for players that find themselves way behind in rounds, and there’s nothing they can do but concede defeat and move on to another game, instead of having to sit through their opponents scoring the match point.The announcement was made via the first edition of the ‘Ask Valorant’ blog series, in which the game’s developers answer user questions.

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Riot Games has announced the Valorant Ignition Series, as part of the company’s efforts to build an esports community for their new multiplayer FPS.The new initiative, in partnership with over 20 Esports organisations from around the world, was unveiled through a blog post on the official Valorant website.

Riot Games, the Santa Monica-based video game developer behind League of Legends, has placed one of its senior staff members on administrative leave after the executive posted a Facebook note about George Floyd. The message was posted by Ron Johnson, global head of consumer products.

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Riot Games has released patch 1.01 for its recently released tactical FPS, Valorant.The biggest change this time around is another nerf for the agent Sage, whose cast range for her Barrier Orb ability has been reduced by half. “The 20m cast range was allowing Sage to aggressively take control of neutral territory in a way that was inappropriate for her role in Valorant,” Riot explained.

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