Counter-Strike 2 News

HenryG retires from casting CS:GO, teases "colossal" move

After working 150 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive events, prominent caster Henry 'HenryG' Greer has announced he's hanging up his microphone. The Brit, who has worked in the scene for nearly six years now, says that casting "wasn't making him happy" and that he needed a change.

In a revealing interview with DBLTAP's Jarek 'DeKay' Lewis, HenryG says that while he's blessed to have had such a successful career, the constant travelling associated with working CS:GO events and the lack of progression in broadcasting left him "jaded beyond belief." He also admits that the recent sexual assault allegations levelled against him, which he maintains are false, have also influenced his decision to step down from casting.

"I'm sure everyone was expecting regular scheduled programming to resume and that I would eventually be back on your screens, putting on the cans and giving it hell. As much as I wish that was the case - it's not," he says.

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Pita admits he used infamous CS:GO coach spectating bug in 2018

Just over an hour after the Esports Integrity Commission announced it was going to open a confession period for its inquiry into historic coach spectator bug exploitation, a former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive coach has come clean.

Faruk 'Pita' Pita, the former Ninja in Pyjamas coach, posted a Twitlonger in which he reveals that he used the bug during the team's final ESL Pro League Season 8 match in November 2018 against mousesports. The Bosnian prefaces the confession with the fact that NiP were already in the relegation zone and mousesports were already in the final. The game had to be played, but the result of the match changed nothing.

"I want to be honest and say that the bug happened to me during an official game in 2018," Pita says in the statement, which is titled 'I fucked up'. "I think it would be better if I said this myself, even though I realise it might potentially ruin any future possibility for me within CS:GO."

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CS:GO gets a new advanced training program to hone players' skills

Like many FPS games, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive can be a pretty challenging game, regardless of whether you're a total newbie or a CS:GO veteran. But, software and peripherals company Logitech has developed a new way to help players of all experience levels hone their skills in the game. It's a program called Playmaster, and is "backed by science and built with professional esports organisations" to help CS:GO fans improve.

"Playmaster is designed to capture specific data from gamers - from amateurs to esports pros - to help them understand how to reach their full potential," a post on Logitech's site (via The Verge) says. The tool's beta version is now available for all players to try out to "analyse their play and improve specific skills, such as targeting acquisition, map navigation, and player movement".

The way the software program works is by getting CS:GO players to complete an initial "baseline skills assessment", which lasts around 30 minutes. This allows them to identify their own specific strengths and weaknesses, as well as how they fare relative to both the average CS:GO community performance and the multiplayer game's top pro players.

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ESIC to investigate CS:GO spectator bug usage as far back as 2016

The Esports Integrity Commission is launching a massive historical investigation into the exploitation of CS:GO's spectator bug, spanning as far back as 2016.

In a statement released today, ESIC revealed that over 25,000 hours of gameplay footage from CS:GO events would now be reviewed in an attempt to unearth more instances of the spectator bug exploit being used. The launch of the investigation comes after three coaches were found guilty this week of using the exploit in ESL tournaments. The two referees who first discovered the use of the exploit, Michel Slowinski and Steve Dudenhoeffer, have again been enlisted to trawl through the thousands of hours of footage in ESIC's large scale investigation.

While ESIC, Slowinski, and Dudenhoeffer are committed to going through all of the evidence in this investigation - which ESIC estimates will take around 8 months to complete fully - there will be an initial "confession period" for those who want to admit their guilt to using the exploit prior to the investigation. The confession period is open now and closes in just nine days on September 13.

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Furia coach guerri protests his innocence in CS:GO coach bug scandal

Furia coach Nicholas 'guerri' Nogueira has given his side of the story after he was accused of exploiting the now infamous spectator bug glitch in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. guerri was not one of the three coaches hit with a ban, but has since been accused by fans of also exploiting the bug.

On his YouTube channel, guerri offered an explanation for the footage which appeared to show him using the spectator bug. He uploaded and described the entire game footage from the two matches he was accused of exploiting the bug in, telling viewers that when he became aware of the bug occuring, he alt-tabbed out of the game so he could not use the camera bug

To prove his innocence, guerri provided complete footage of the game in question, which includes guerri's full commentary. He clearly does not relay any information he might have seen from the bug.

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