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Counter-Strike

Counter-Strike

Developed by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe as a Half-Life mod, Counter-Strike IP was bought by Valve, who transformed it into a global powerhouse and a rock-solid standard by which all shooters are eventually measured.
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has a Portal Easter egg

Atlas and P-body flexing in Portal 2
Players who gave Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's new battle royale mode a try have come across a strange broadcast message that got many players expecting a new Portal announcement, although Valve insist that it's just a bit of fun.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive getting review-bombed on Steam

Terrorists are protesting against something on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's dust map.
The decision to make Counter-Strike: Global Offensive free to play doesn't seem to be sitting well with the game's existing playerbase, who have been review-bombing the game's Steam page with more than 22,000 negative reviews since.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes f2p and gets battle royale

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has officially sailed into free to play waters and not only that - Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment's game also got a battle royale component called Danger Zone, which offers solo, duo and three-man play.

CS:GO pro team disqualified after one member was caught hacking

Terrorists are protesting against something on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's dust map.
Team OpTic India has been disqualified from a LAN event, eXTREMELAND ZOWIE Asia, held in Shanghai, due to one of their players using hacks. Nikhil “forsaken” Kumawat first cheated and then attempted to delete the evidence of doing so.

Valve update FBI CT units for Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Picture of the new FBI models in CS:GO
Valve have released new models for Counter Terrorist units in Counter Strike: Global Offensive, that will presumably make them more visible. The FBI unit will naturally appear on a limited number of maps, now including Nuke on the roster.

Counter Strike Global Offensive is reintroducing the MP5 SMG

Picture of MP5SD that is about to be released in CS:GO
Valve have announced they will be reintroducing the MP5 to Counter Strike series soon, with a teaser of an MP5SD in action in Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Technically, they already did, but only for Deathmatch and offline game modes.

Valve advised to step up their CS:GO and Dota 2 esports game

Esport arena during a match with a Olympics logo
Beancounters at SuperData have published their analysis of the esports sector, claiming that publishers, most notably Valve, should take on more proactive roles in setting up and maintaining secondary competitive leagues for their games.

Valve Anti-Cheat bans more than 90 thousand Steam accounts

Valve's Steam Platform
In the largest exodus of cheaters since Steam came to be, Valve have banned upwards of 90,000 Steam accounts since Tuesday, 17 July 2018 and although this "trend" seems to have slowed down somewhat, it still shows a different kind of Valve.

Valve enable CS:GO and Dota 2 trading sans loot boxes

Photoshop of a No Loot Boxes Allowed sign in Holland
Even though they said at the time that they'll be working with Dutch authorities to find a convenient solution, Valve was ultimately forced to re-enable Steam trading for Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 without loot boxes.

University of Adelaide finds loot boxes to be predatory gambling

A photoshop of the character Predator gambling
It appears that the Dutch have only added more fuel to the anti-loot box fire as University of Adelaide's School of Psychology found loot boxes to constitute predatory gambling, as part of their current study on microtransactions.
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