Ho Chi Minh City, March 17, 2021 – VNG Corporation has officially been confirmed by Riot Games as the publisher of VALORANT in Vietnam. Accordingly, the Vietnamese gaming community will have the opportunity to compete with other players in Southeast Asia through the existing servers available for the entire region.
According to the plan, VNG will officially release VALORANT on April 6. This is a 5v5 tactical FPS game that Riot Games first announced in 2019, coinciding with the company’s 10th anniversary and has been released in many countries since June 2020. With Riot Games’ extensive production experience, VALORANT has quickly established its quality and continues to develop to become one of the most played PC games in the world today.
With a friendly configuration and distinctive gameplay, VALORANT has provided many exciting experiences for the global FPS gaming community. Moreover, continuous updates with new versions along with the launch of new maps and agents have kept the game fresh in the eyes of the community. When VALORANT is released in Vietnam, developer Riot Games and publisher VNG have also committed to a continuous update roadmap to best meet the needs and experiences of players for this free-to-play game.
The Esports system is also one of VALORANT’s strengths, having a series of tournaments worldwide that attract numerous organizations and Esports teams to compete. In Vietnam, there are currently at least 100,000 VALORANT players regularly participating in various large and small tournaments within the community. Now with the involvement of publisher VNG, the Esports tournament system for VALORANT promises to be more professionally invested and of higher quality in the near future.
To have the best experience for VALORANT, the minimum PC configuration is:
Minimum configuration 30 FPS:
● Operating System: Windows 7/8/10 64-Bit.
● CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400.
● GPU: Intel HD 4000.
● RAM: 4GB.
● 1GB VRAM.
Recommended configuration – 60 FPS:
● Operating System: Windows 7/8/10 64-Bit.
● CPU: Intel Core i3-4150.
● GPU: GeForce GT 730.
● RAM: 4GB.
● 1 GB VRAM.
Maximum configuration – Max setting 144+ FPS:
● Operating System: Windows 7/8/10 64-Bit.
● CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz.
● GPU: GTX 1050 TI.
● RAM: 4GB RAM.
● 1GB VRAM.
To stay updated with the latest information about VALORANT Vietnam, you can follow:
● Official website of Valorant Vietnam: https://valorant.vnggames.com/vi-vn/.
● Official Facebook of Valorant Vietnam: https://www.facebook.com/VALORANTvn/.
About VNG Corporation
Established in 2004, VNG is the first pioneering Internet company in Vietnam and a leading technology enterprise in the country. Currently, VNG has over 3,100 members working at 11 offices across 5 countries. VNG’s application ecosystem is divided into 4 main product areas, including: Online gaming, Connectivity platforms, Electronic payment, and Cloud services, serving hundreds of millions of individual and organizational users in over 100 countries worldwide.
Alongside this, VNG has also heavily invested resources into the latest technology trends such as artificial intelligence. After 15 years of operation, VNG has become the first unicorn start-up in Vietnam when valued at over 1 billion USD, according to the World Start-up Report published in 2019. Additionally, in 2020, VNG was also honored by the prestigious HR Asia magazine as “Best Workplace in Asia” for two consecutive years.
About VALORANT
VALORANT is a 5v5 tactical FPS game on PC developed by Riot Games. It is a multiplayer game featuring high-fidelity gunplay, a diverse range of weapons, agents with unique abilities, and challenging maps for thousands of hours of gameplay.
VALORANT is a free-to-play game optimized for the global gaming community to experience on a variety of PC types. Thanks to the best server quality in the gaming segment, a global quality infrastructure, and exclusive anti-cheat technology, Riot Games is committed to maintaining the essence of the tactical shooting genre and preserving the competitive nature of the gameplay experience for its players.
VALORANT quickly became a favorite choice for the global FPS gaming community since its Closed Beta released in April 2020. On its first day, the game made history by breaking the record of 34 million viewing hours in just one day, even surpassing the milestone of 1.7 million concurrent views set by the League of Legends World Championship 2019, also by Riot Games. Throughout the 2-month beta of VALORANT, there was an average of nearly 3 million players logging in to play each day. Fans also showed their passion for this 5v5 tactical FPS game by collectively achieving 470 million hours of VALORANT streaming on Twitch, the world’s leading gaming streaming platform, as well as on AfreecaTV, Korea’s top gaming streaming service.