Counter-Strike News

Counter-Strike co-creator says he's happy they sold the game to Valve—'They have done a great job of maintaining the legacy'

Counter-Strike recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, and is more popular than ever. The original Half-Life mod became a standalone title after Valve hired co-creators Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jesse "Cliffe" Cliffe, and since then has iterated and grown into the most popular competitive FPS on the planet, with over 30 million monthly players...
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December 12, 2023 Update

Fixes for joining games through invites and Steam friends list.
Miscellaneous UI fixes for Dedicated Servers.
Fixed an occasional crash when opening the scoreboard.
Fixed camera movement after death in multiplayer.
Fixed crash when creating a server if the server creator's Steam name was entirely non-ASCII characters.

December 1, 2023 Update

Fixed crash when modifying certain video settings in a multiplayer match.
Fixed server browser issues after modifying video settings.
Fixed local player not showing up in player count on a listen server using Steam Networking.
Fixed rare corrupted lighting rendering bug in some maps.
Fixed miscellaneous fog rendering bugs.
Fixed pushable entity physics in Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Condition Zero.

November 29, 2023 Update

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes have been updated to support the Half-Life 25th Anniversary engine updates, including all related fixes from Counter-Strike.
Fixed lighting rendering issues on some AMD GPUs.
Added "Use shaders" checkbox for the video options. Servers can over-ride this setting with sv_allow_shaders.
Miscellaneous Steam Networking fixes.
Miscellaneous UI layout fixes.
The Half-Life dedicated server application (app 90) which is used by Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Condition Zero has been updated with latest server code and updated windows and linux binaries. Updating is recommended.

November 22, 2023 Update

Counter-Strike has been updated to support many of the features from the Half-Life 25th Anniversary update. If you are still experiencing compatibility or stability issues, it is suggested that you install the "steam_legacy" beta branches of Half-Life and Counter-Strike (selectable in each game's properties page in Steam).