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Valorant anti-cheat update soft-bricks $6,000 cheating hardware, company then trolls cheaters on social media — studio tweets 'congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight'

Zhiye Liu · 2026-05-23 · via Latest from Tom's Hardware in News

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