Counter-Strike: Global Offensive video shows hour long contest from the Intel Extreme Masters
Here’s an hour of competitive action from the recent Extreme Masters Global Challenge Counter-Strike: Global Offensive contest between Europe and the USA, spotted on VG247. The contest takes place on Counter-Strike classic, Dust, showing off the updated Source engine and some of Global Offensive’s new gadgets, including taser guns and decoy grenades. The decoy grenades do very little to fool these seasoned vets. There’s a moment where one backs off and looks it it, puzzled for a moment. Then he resumes his kill streak without hesitation.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta coming early October
Pro gamers and invited guests will make it onto the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive closed beta early in October. Valve’s Chet Faliszeck told The Reticule that they’re planning to grow the beta in the coming months, and he hopes everyone will have a chance to play by the end of the year.
Counter-Strike pros have already had a chance to go hands on with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive when they were invited to Valve HQ for testing earlier this year. A Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hands-on account from one of those testers uncovered new weapons like the molotov cocktail, and a tweaked and updated version of the Counter-Strike classic, de_dust.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Arsenal modes make Gun Game official, new screenshots out
Valve are incorporating the immensely popular Gun Game mod as official modes in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Arsenal: Arms Race and Arsenal: Demolition are the two new modes. They’ll be playable across eight new maps created with help from the creators of the original mod.
Gun Game replaces Counter-Strike’s cash-for-guns system with a kills-for-guns system. Everyone starts with a pistol and gets a new weapon for every kill. Those unfamiliar with Counter-Strike might recognise a very similar mode appearing in Call of Duty: Black Ops, but the original CS mod was the real deal, and it will get official backing when CS:GO is released early next year.
Valve have sent over nine new screenshots, showing some lovely jungle areas. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive doesn’t seem to be pushing the Source engine especially hard, but it’s a significant step up from Counter-Strike: Source.
Intel Extreme Masters New York: world’s best CS 1.6, LoL and StarCraft 2 players to fight for $93k
The best Counter-Strike 1.6, StarCraft 2 and League of Legends players will clash in New York next month, hoping to win a share of the enormous $93,000 prize pot up for grabs at the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge event. It all kicks off on Thursday October 13 and runs through until the finals on Sunday October 16. The best teams will also win the chance to participate in the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship in Hanover, Germany next year.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive screenshots arrive
A Steam page has popped up for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and it’s full of new screenshots. It looks as though CS: GO has received quite a substantial visual upgrade over its ageing predecessors. Head below for shots of men, often holding guns, standing and shooting each other in some reworked versions of classic CS maps. If you’d prefer some moving images, check out the first trailer.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive trailer reveals cross-platform play, Valve to host official servers
The first trailer for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has landed on Gametrailers. In between messages mentioning the new weapons, maps and game modes, one pop up confirms that CS:GO will have cross platform play, giving us an opportunity to playfully shoot Playstation 3 and Mac players in the face.
Kotaku have spent some time with CS:GO, and can confirm a few new facts. Global Offensive will have a “casual mode” which will give players funds to buy whatever they like between rounds. This mode will also support cross team chat and let you spectate enemy team members. “Competitive mode” will provide a more traditional Counter-Strike set up.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro hands-on reveals new Dust, molotov cocktails, more guns
On Friday, Valve confirmed the existence of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a new multiplatform, standalone version of Counter-Strike with new maps, weapons, matchmaking and leaderboards. Co-founder of the ESEA, Craig Levine is one of the many top members of the Counter-Strike community Valve flew out to see CS:GO in action. He’s written about his experiences on the ESEA site. Read on for a summary of the main points.
Valve announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, playable at PAX
As rumor confirmations go, this one’s pretty quick. Valve just issued a press release announcing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a standalone release that seems to be a full update of Counter-Strike: Source with new weapons, maps, matchmaking, leaderboards, and more. No screenshots have been released, but from Valve’s language, it seems like more of an “anniversary edition” of CS:S that dresses up the existing content than a full-on sequel. CS:GO will also be released on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Read the full press release within.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teased on Twitter
In the middle of a thread on the Steam forums speculating about the possibility of a new Counter-Strike game, Valve employee Cliffe dropped two lone words “Global Offensive.” Elsewhere, CVG report that anti-cheat providers ESEA post on their Facebook page with another simple message “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive… More info in the morning.” Just below the post there’s an image of ESEA man Craig Levine turning the gigantic valve in the lobby of Valve’s headquarters in Seattle.
Finally, ESL Pro manager Bastian Vieser tweeted saying “Just spend all day playing the new Counterstrike Global Offensive #CSGO at the #Valve HQ ! God I love my job.”
These strong hints appear in the midst of a sea of rumours suggesting that Valve have been flying out top Counter-Strike community members out to their HQ over the course of the past month.
Team Fortress 2 overtakes Counter-Strike to take Steam most-played top spot
For the first time in as long as we can remember, Counter-Strike has been knocked off the top spot on the Steam most-played list. Team Fortress 2 has stolen the crown. That means that overnight, TF2 has leapt from a top ten position to the very top, gaining tens of thousands of players in the process
It’s a resounding indication of the success of TF2′s move to free-to-play. Counter-Strike is routinely the most played game on Steam, often boasting twice the number of players of its nearest rivals. For a four-year-old online shooter to suddenly leapfrog the Counter-Strike is a big deal.
FY_abbottabad lets you play Counter Strike: Source in Bin Laden’s secret(ish) lair
A map has been released for Counter Strike: Source that give you opportunity to play in, and around, Osama Bin Laden’s compound.
As reported on bitthirty, the map is available to download from gamebanana now.
According the map’s creator, Fletch, “What a lot of people don’t seem to understand is that the only thing this map has in common with Osama is location.” Fletch is planning on evolving fy_abbottabad into a bomb or hostage map later. At the moment, you’re restricted to aimlessly shooting your chums around the final resting place of a deceased terrorist.
10 essential Counter Strike: Source maps
A lot of Counter Strike: Source games take place every day. In fact, it’s still the second most popular title on Steam (coming in just after the original Counterstrike). You can understand why some players might be hungry for a little variety. We’ve compiled a list of some of the most inventive and fun user-made maps around.
Best Counter-Strike: Source player skins
There are eight different characters in Counter-Strike: Source, four Terrorists and four Counter-Terrorists. The trouble is that there are millions of Counter-Strike players, which makes standing out difficult. Luckily, fans have been creating new player skins since the game’s release, and now there are literally thousands of accomplished efforts to choose from. Many of the new skins add advanced effects like normal maps and phong shading to make them look even better than the default skins. Whether you want to turn the Terrorists into suave, suited bank robbers, or add more convincing camo to the Counter-Terrorists, there’s something for you in the Counter-Strike: Source modding community. Read on for our pick of the best Terrorist and Counter-Terrorist player skins.
The 10 best new weapon mods for Counter-Strike: Source. Beware: gun porn inside
Counter-Strike: Source has brilliant weapons, but somehow the huge Counter-Strike modding community has managed to make them even better. Modders have achieved great results by cutting out the polygons devoted to bits of arm you hardly ever see, and piling them into creating new high detail weapons complete with new sounds and custom animations. They’re also dead easy to install. Perhaps you’re tired of seeing the same old combat knife, fancy sticking a scope on your M4A1 or want to dual wield Berettas made of ice and fire. Read on for ten of the best.
E-sports TV show draws over a million viewers
The first episode of Eurosport’s coverage of the Intel Extreme Masters aired recently, and drew over a million different viewers. The show went behind the scenes at the Global Challenge Shanghai Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament, following the highs and lows of Team Fnatic’s campaign to become Shanghai’s new Counter-Strike champions.
