Buying a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU has apparently locked its new owner out of Valorant. Reddit user After-Cartoonist-196 posted on r/PCBaumeister that they bought the chip through the German classifieds site Kleinanzeigen and have owned it since September 21. The CPU apparently works fine. However, Valorant kicked them out at launch, even though the game ran normally on their previous processor. Riot support reportedly told them the CPU's ID was blacklisted in Vanguard on August 12 because the previous owner had cheated. The user also claims their motherboard and storage drive got flagged, and that support refused to lift the ban. However, Riot's head of anti-cheat, Phillip Koskinas, responded on X and disputed part of that. Here's what he posted:

Hardware bans last 4 months maximum, they apply only to the game cheats were detected in, and we don't ban "everything else" when we match one component. Support will give you the time remaining on request. If it were up to me, we'd have soul bans that followed them into hell.

Aside from the Kone gaming mouse, ROCCAT is also introducing the Valo gaming keyboard. This keyboard features the traditional backlit keys found on most gaming keyboards and a LCD screen display over the number pad. The Valo has 2MB of onboard memory for storing macros, profiles, and over 420,000 commands and timings. Gamers who require a lot of macro buttons will also have access to 41 available macro keys as well as the external gaming mic. Like the Kone gaming mouse, the pricing of the Valo gaming keyboard is unknown as well.