Cheating — and the anti-cheat systems game developers create to protect players from it — is always a hot topic in the PC gaming space, and is particularly relevant to highly competitive PvP shooter games like Counter-Strike or Valorant. The latter is actually going through a pretty sizable commotion right now that's centered around its anti-cheat, ignited by a controversial post from Riot Games, the studio behind it.
On Tuesday, Valorant players began to report that an update to Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat software was preventing DMA firmwares — specially made pieces of hacking hardware that connect to your PC and bypass kernel-level anti-cheat solutions — from working properly.
