The Counter-Strike 2 community has been thrown into turmoil after a fateful update from Valve sent shockwaves through Steam’s marketplace, causing the value of skins (purchased with real money) to ...

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Counter-Strike has long been known for two things: tight tactical FPS gameplay and a thriving player marketplace effectively valued at literal billions of dollars. Now, thanks to a recent update from ...

With a click of the mouse, the race against time begins. The crowd of spectators falls mostly silent, eyes trained on the colossal screen suspended above. As a rhythmic beeping ramps up through the ...

Counter-Strike changed first-person shooters forever with its deliberate team-based combat. Twenty-five years after the game’s official release, one of its college creators reflects. By Calum Marsh ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. Valve released a new patch for Counter-Strike 2 overnight ...

Counter-Strike 2 is doing exceptionally well. As of Saturday March 15, Valve's multiplayer shooter achieved a new concurrent player count record, with a staggering 1,824,989 people playing CS2 ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. If you fondly remember the old days of Counter-Strike before ...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive — known to most as CS:GO — is back on Steam in its own right… but only if you know where to look. A stinging caveat is that the servers have not been resurrected, nor ...