Riot Games denies claims of Vanguard bricking PCs
Riot Games has responded to allegations that its anti-cheat software, Vanguard, is causing PCs to become unusable. The company stated that it has not received any reports of Vanguard bricking systems and emphasized that it is designed to protect players from cheating. Riot Games encourages users to report any issues they encounter with the software.
- ▪Riot Games denies claims that its Vanguard anti-cheat software is bricking PCs.
- ▪The company has not received any reports of systems becoming unusable due to Vanguard.
- ▪Riot Games is committed to ensuring a fair gaming environment and encourages users to report issues.
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| Original publisher | Destructoid |
| Canonical URL | https://www.destructoid.com/riot-games-denies-claims-of-vanguard-bricking-pcs/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 21:53:41 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-22T22:02:03.028Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-22T22:02:03.028Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | p18NVI0SriW1 · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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