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This new Counter-Strike map was created to smuggle the truth about the Ukraine war into Russia

The newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has sometimes been described as a cultural institution in Finland, the country's own paper of record and over the years a campaigning media presence. Ever since Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, Helsingin Sanomat's coverage has been extensive and extensively critical of the Putin regime, to the extent of setting up a dedicated website (banned in Russia, naturally). Now it's found a new avenue of expression: a Counter-Strike map...
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A secret CS:GO bunker is sharing newspaper reports on the war in Ukraine to dodge Russian censorship

A Counter-Strike: Global Offensive map is being used to sneak information about the ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Russian gamers. Players can download the de_voyna map, which recreates an abandoned Eastern European city that’s not too dissimilar to the war-torn streets you might find in other multiplayer maps. The difference here is a secret underground room that contains information about the invasion: headlines, maps, newspaper clippings, and images of the war.

A CSGO map contains a secret room wherein players can view stories about the Russian military's activities in Ukraine, which would otherwise be banned under the Kremlin's laws curtailing free press. The Valve FPS game is currently not subject to this type of censorship in Russia, allowing Helsingin Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper, to build and share the Counter-Strike map as a way of exposing Russian CSGO players to facts about the invasion of Ukraine.

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CSGO player discovers incredible trick for surviving AWP shots

CSGO players shudder, or perhaps silently rage, at mere mention of its name. The herald of the headshot, the devil of Dust_2, the double-handed snipe saber - from the earliest days of Counter-Strike, nothing has wrought more death and destruction than the FPS game's immensely powerful rifle, the AWP. With Counter-Strike 2 imminently inbound, and CSGO skins and cases jumping all over the market, one Global Offensive player finds a novel method of surviving Valve's most-feared gun, by somehow batting the bullets away using another gun. See it to believe it.