Counter-Strike 2 News

CSGO map has a secret room, full of news stories banned by Russia

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.

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Incredible CS:GO clutch sees player spared from death by the bomb

We've already seen one miraculous CS:GO play recently, in which a player killed an entire enemy team with an incredible, one-in-a-million shot. Now, the Counter-Strike gods have intervened again, with a player surviving a dramatic 4-v-1 clutch all thanks to the bomb...
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Ingenious Counter-Strike players are exploiting Steam's new notes function to score noscopes

Valve put out a beta client update for Steam yesterday that aims to significantly expand the usefulness of its overlay functionality. Users running the update are now just a Shift-Tab away from a redesigned layout, a refreshed screenshot manager, and, crucially, a new note-taking function, which lets you pin notes to the screen even while the overlay is minimised, and adjust their opacity so that you can still see the game behind them...
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New CSGO skins from Valve probably made $11 million in one day

The new CSGO skins by Valve, named 'Anubis' in honour of one of the arenas in the FPS game, have likely generated $11 million (£8.8 million) in revenue already, based on analysis of Counter-Strike float values and CSGO cases. The Anubis skins arrive as the Counter-Strike 2 limited test continues, and we await the full arrival of the shooter sequel on Steam.

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