Riot Games and VALORANT today revealed to players their 22nd agent, Gekko. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Gekko is VALORANT’s newest Initiator who leads a tight-knit crew of calamitous creatures. His buddies bound forward, scattering enemies out of the way, with Gekko chasing them down to regroup and go again. To celebrate Gekko’s reveal, Riot collaborated with emerging artist ericdoa to create the soundtrack for Gekko’s reveal trailer, which you can watch here.
Additionally, Riot Games announced that Gekko’s hometown of Los Angeles will host VALORANT Champions, the global final where the 2023 VALORANT World Champion will be crowned. Teams from North America, Brazil, Latin America, EMEA, and Asia are currently competing for the chance to earn one of 16 qualification slots for the tournament. Interest and viewership in the tournament has grown year-over-year, with last year’s event seeing more than 1.5 million concurrent viewers tuning in to the final and an AMA of more than 1.25 million, representing a 34% year-over-year growth in viewership. Two iconic Los Angeles locations will play host to the event, with early rounds taking place at the Shrine Auditorium and final rounds at the KIA Forum.
VALORANT Episode 6 Act II begins on March 7, 2023.
ABOUT VALORANT
VALORANT is a competitive 5v5 character-based tactical shooter developed by Riot Games. VALORANT is a precise and lethal multiplayer game with high-fidelity gunplay, a diverse arsenal of guns, agents with unique abilities, and competitively tuned maps for thousands of hours of play.
VALORANT is a free-to-play game and optimized to perform on a wide variety of PC hardware, allowing for a global audience to compete. Demonstrated by the game’s best-in-class game server quality, global infrastructure, and proprietary anti-cheat technology, Riot Games is committed to preserving the core tenets of the tactical shooter genre and upholding the competitive integrity of the gameplay experience.