Valorant launches on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X

Valorant, Riot Games’s free-to-play hero shooter, launched on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X on Friday in the United States and Canada, Europe, Japan, and Brazil, Riot announced. The news was a bit unexpected because, while Valorant had gotten a limited beta period on consoles beginning mid-June, no release date had been set, formally.

The game’s production director, Arnar Gylfason, said in a news release that console and PC players will, going forward, see the same launches of title updates...