May 22 2026, 11:27am PST: Riot has since issued a tweet confirming that Vanguard does not "brick" PCs, clarifying that the devices in its tweet are "cheat hardware devices." It states that "Vanguard ...

For years, playing Valorant or League of Legends involved a tacit understanding among most players that they never explicitly agreed to: in return for a good game, you would give Riot permission to ...

TL;DR: Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat now offers an On-Demand mode that runs only when launching Riot games, requiring Windows 11 25H2, Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and other ...

Valorant cheaters have watched their $6,000 investment turned into paperweights overnight as Riot Games updated the Vanguard anti-cheat software to block DMA (Direct Memory Access) cheating devices.

At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we’ve written before, this is software that runs with more elevated ...