Cheating exposed the gaps in the safeguarding of Counter-Strike’s competitive scene, and Match-Fixing showed its ...

Every year the Counter-Strike scene resets itself. Rosters shuffle. Coaches gamble. Underdogs cook up bizarre strats that somehow work on stage. And yet, through all of that chaos, a handful of ...

I love seeing what's on top of the Steam chart. Over the last few years, we've had some gargantuan surprises rocket to the summit, only to slowly (or sometimes rapidly) fall from grace. Counter-Strike ...

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 ...

Despite a brief blip of hope that a way forward may be found, the ambitious Counter-Strike mod Classic Offensive has been officially cancelled. "After eight years of development, and despite being ...

While plenty of iconic Counter-Strike maps have been beautifully recreated in CS2 already, one worshipped arena has sadly been absent. However, thanks to one of its original creators, it's finally ...

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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 ...