Valve launched Counter-Strike 2 today. The long-rumored game, officially announced in March, has replaced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as a free upgrade. It uses Valve’s in-house Source 2 engine, ...

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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is still free-to-play, but you'll have to pay the piper if you want to play the game's ranked modes. Valve recently ...

Highly anticipated: Since Valve began the Counter-Strike 2 beta in March, uncertainty has surrounded its public launch details and the fate of Steam's most popular title – Counter-Strike: Global ...

The greatest competitive FPS of this generation began its life as a console port. Envisioned as a new era for the iconic franchise, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was meant to bring together the ...

My first memory of Counter-Strike is on the map Inferno, which looked drastically different back in 2006. With a poor connection and no GPU to speak of, my Core 2 Duo could barely handle the FPS game.

The CS:GO player count has broken its peak record, proving that there's still plenty of life in the decade-old FPS game. Released in August 2012, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has continued to ...

The first-person shooter game “Counter-Strike” is one of the most popular video games in the world. It’s been around for more than two decades, first as a hardcopy PC game, then as one for Xbox. Now ...