GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Unlike the default bomb mode, Spike Rush gives every player on the attacker side a spike--the objective is to plant just one. All agents' basic ...

Valorant’s official launch on June 2 came with a series of new changes that were previously absent in the closed beta. From a new map and a new Agent to a whole new game mode called Spike Rush, the ...

Both games have a bomb (Spike in Valorant's case) which the attacking team will need to plant in designated sites around the map. The defending team will then have to prevent them from planting the ...

Valorant arrives on the hero-shooter scene facing tough competition from the likes of Overwatch and Paladins. But Riot Games will be hoping its mix of hero play and competitive shooting mechanics ...

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 ...

If “Valorant” had debuted Tuesday looking mostly as it did in the beta, with a few bug fixes and connectivity improvements, it would be a good title. The beta was no minimum viable product. It was a ...

Valorant ranked matches are cut-throat, purely centred on aim placement, team play, and guts to break into the red zone. But less heroic tasks like healing other Valorant players, smoking entrances, ...

Valorant has released the first post-launch patch for the free-to-play shooter, and while it isn’t exactly the most significant update in the world, it does make some serious changes to the Spike Rush ...

The Valorant release date has come and gone, and the game has a new patch out, bringing it to version 1.01. More important than version numbers, however, are the changes it makes to the game. There ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. When Riot announced a new game mode for Valorant many hoped ...

Riot Games has been putting in a lot of work since Valorant launched, introducing some new characters, continually tweaking the gun meta, and now introducing another new map to the mix: Ice Box. This ...