Counter Strike Global Offensive struck gold, with the number of active players hitting an all-time high in May 2023 at over 1.8 million and Counter Strike 2 hitting similar numbers in April 2025. The ...

Counter-Strike is a megapopular tactical shooter, and one of the reasons for its sustained popularity is its in-game market. Digital items like gloves and knives go for thousands–if not millions–of ...

The Counter-Strike series has gone up and down in terms of quality since its debut, but we've compiled and ranked the five ...

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Razer and Valve have come together for a new collaboration, as the company revealed several new items as part of their Counter-Strike 2 Collection. As it is with many of these types of packages, these ...

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Valve is usually careful about making sweeping changes to Counter-Strike 2, and it's not difficult to see why. I'm old enough to remember when CS: Source randomly received an update that introduced ...

On paper, the new Counter-Strike 2 update sounds perfectly innocent, if not a little comic: "Adjusted Banana to more closely match the size of the CSGO version." But whether you're a veteran of ...

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 ...

Counter-Strike Nexon, the free-to-play zombie survival spin-off that brought the Korean Counter-Strike Online lineage to a global Steam audience in 2014, will permanently close its servers by the end ...