Counter-Strike 2 News

The Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) has today announced a fresh wave of bans for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players caught by its ongoing betting and match-fixing investigation. Alongside the seven players who had previously been banned back in October - two of which now face revised charges - a further 35 now face sanctions.

According to the investigation, there were numerous forms of betting behaviour present which violate the Anti-Corruption Code, such as players betting on their own team to either win or lose matches, and more generally "betting on matches in ESIC member events". These players now face bans from ESIC member events - the organisers of which include ESL, DreamHack, and a host of others - for up to five years.

ESIC states that, although the guilty parties have not been charged for match-fixing in today's report, it "is of the view that there is a high possibility that it will issue match-fixing charges arising from the ongoing investigations, potentially including against players sanctioned today." Additionally, the investigation into "further offences in Australia, NA, and Europe in cooperation with law enforcement" will continue.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has got another update this week, which - as is often the case - brings a smattering of various gameplay, map, and other miscellaneous changes to Valve's FPS game. The latest patch, though, notably adds a bunch of tweaks to CS:GO's Apollo map, including a fix for some hiccups caused by the multiplayer game's most recent update.

It's not detailed in the new CS:GO update notes what these issues were, exactly, but it's always good to see troubles introduced get picked up and ironed out quickly (the latest patch having gone live a fortnight back). Other changes to the fan-made hostage rescue map, which features in CS:GO's recent expansion Operation Broken Fang, include making glass breaking "more consistent", replacing and realigning some textures that weren't quite right, and deleting an "upsetting bench".

Additionally, the update's Apollo fixes include fixing "some gun stuck spots" and boost spots, removing cans that some players mistook for smoke grenades, reducing assets in giftspot, and - finally - "other general optimisations for lower end computers".

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

has some of the most famous, popular, and beautifully handcrafted maps of any multiplayer game. But there’s still only a finite number available, so it’s cool that someone has built a procedurally generated level with “tens of millions” of possible layouts.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has some of the most famous, popular, and beautifully handcrafted maps of any multiplayer game. But there's still only a finite number available, so it's cool that someone has built a procedurally generated level with "tens of millions" of possible layouts.

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