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Steam adds Trade Protected Items starting with Counter-Strike 2, along with a bit of Half-Life fan trolling

Liam Dawe — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:47:11 +0000

Counter-Strike 2 has begun a new season, and Valve added a new feature called Trade Protected Items and they're poking fun at Half-Life fans too.

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Counter-Strike 2 gets weekly missions and a Linux Wayland fix

Liam Dawe — Tue, 13 May 2025 08:06:18 +0000

Just recently, Valve updated Counter-Strike 2 to entice players to keep coming back with a new permanent weekly mission system. Additionally, a just released update improves the game on Linux with Wayland.

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Train finally returns to Counter-Strike 2 in the latest big update

Liam Dawe — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:09:56 +0000

Train! It's back! A fan favourite map returns that was annoyingly missing from the release of Counter-Strike 2. But it's now back and looking better than ever in the latest update to Valve's FPS.

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Counter-Strike 2 update The Armory released with weapon charms

Liam Dawe — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:16:05 +0000

Valve released the latest major update to Counter-Strike 2 that brings with it more than 100 new items including weapon charms.

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Lefties unite! Counter-Strike 2 now lets you swap hands

Liam Dawe — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:30:32 +0000

All you Lefties out there can finally get properly represented, in Counter-Strike 2 that is, as there's now the ability to swap your weapons into the other hand.

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Counter-Strike 2 from Valve releasing Summer 2023, Limited Test starts today

Liam Dawe — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:52:44 +0000

Valve has today announced Counter-Strike 2, which will be arriving in Summer 2023 and they've released some details on what's changed.

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Counter-Strike 2 is reportedly a real thing and coming soon

Liam Dawe — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 10:33:28 +0000

There's been a whole lot of rumours appearing lately that seem quite credible, with Counter-Strike 2 apparently due soon.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive keeps breaking player records

Liam Dawe — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 10:48:15 +0000

One Valve game that is clearly unstoppable is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, their first-person shooter from 2012 just keeps growing.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive improves startup time, Steam Deck Steam Input improvement

Liam Dawe — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:33:31 +0000

Valve has put out an update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that not only makes it startup faster but improves Steam Input handling on Steam Deck too.

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Valve continues tweaking Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for Steam Deck

Liam Dawe — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:15:08 +0000

Valve has released a fresh update to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and they continue focusing on Steam Input improvements, to make playing it with a controller and the Steam Deck a better experience.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive updated, more tweaking for Steam Deck + Vulkan

Liam Dawe — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:34:50 +0000

Valve continues to tweak more of their games ahead of the Steam Deck release in February and their focus now appears to be on CS:GO with a fresh update out.

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Experimental Vulkan support is here for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Liam Dawe — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:33:06 +0000

As we suggested it would be, Valve has announced that experimental Vulkan support for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO) has landed and can be tried out right now.

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Valve broke Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux, Vulkan may come soon

Liam Dawe — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:22:54 +0000

Despite Valve pushing many areas of Linux gaming, including the upcoming Steam Deck handheld which will use the Arch-based SteamOS 3, they still totally break their own games. UPDATED.

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Operation Riptide is live for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Liam Dawe — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 08:48:32 +0000

Operation Riptide is the 11th operating for Valve's free to play shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

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CS:GO gets some fun new music and a music video from various video game composers

Liam Dawe — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 11:27:36 +0000

Introduced back in 2014, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) added in Music Kits to replace music in game and to play if you're the MVP to bug everyone else with and they just released a fun sounding Tacticians Music Kit Box.

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Valve announces $1 million CS:GO art contest celebrating 10 years of the Steam Workshop

Liam Dawe — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 18:33:33 +0000

It's coming close to 10 years since the Steam Workshop went live and so Valve are doing something special. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has a big art competition going live tomorrow (July 22, 2021) for 10 lucky people to win.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets some big changes for non-Prime accounts

Liam Dawe — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:12:25 +0000

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is going through some changes, as Valve attempt to deal with the bad actors now it's free to play with big changes to non-Prime accounts.

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Looks like Trust Factor in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux is fixed for Mesa

Liam Dawe — Thu, 20 May 2021 12:55:26 +0000

For quite some time now, there's been a few troubles for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux with players Trust Factor being severely reduced. Now though, it looks to be finally solved.

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Stockholm to host the 2021 CS:GO Major, with the biggest ever prize pool

Liam Dawe — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:00:24 +0000

Valve along with PGL have announced the return of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's next Major Championship that will take place this year in Sweden.

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Operation Broken Fang announced for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Liam Dawe — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:35:27 +0000

Valve have finally delivered on the next event for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, with Operation Broken Fang.

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Valve cancels Counter-Strike: Global Offensive November Major, dealing with coach cheats

Liam Dawe — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:30:55 +0000

As the COVID19 pandemic and quarantines around the world continue, another event has been cancelled. Plus, there's been some quite wide-spread cheating from professional CS:GO team coaches.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets fancy new skins, networking improvements

Liam Dawe — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 10:42:36 +0000

Valve continue to tweak their classic free to play shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The latest update improves various parts of the game and there's some fancy new weapon skins.

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CS:GO on Linux is actually not launching Trusted Mode by default - quick fix

Liam Dawe — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 08:55:22 +0000

Looks like Valve did a bit of a woopsie. With the recent updates to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive they implemented a new anti-cheat tool with Trusted Mode but it appears at some point they forgot to enable it.

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Prepare to get your feet wet in the latest Counter-Strike: Global Offensive maps

Liam Dawe — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 20:26:36 +0000

A fresh Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update is out and Valve has done some map rotations to keep it all fresh. Prepare to get your feet wet.

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Trusted Mode is now live for everyone in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Liam Dawe — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 08:59:47 +0000

Valve has now launched the Trusted Mode update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, in their attempt to reduce cheating further - here's what's changed.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has a new Beta to deal with cheating

Liam Dawe — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 11:29:22 +0000

While Team Fortress 2 is dealing with racist bots, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is dealing with cheating and there's a new Beta out now.

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Valve boost player contrast in CS:GO and add Text Filtering

Liam Dawe — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:12:47 +0000

While it seems Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now over the sudden massive popularity boost it saw in the last few months, that hasn't stopped Valve continuing to improve it.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has now beaten the all-time player record of Dota 2

Liam Dawe — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 19:13:37 +0000

Four years ago, Valve's free to play MOBA Dota 2 hit 1,295,114 concurrent players and today it's finally been beaten by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

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Steam and CS:GO just keep knocking down records as Steam hits over 24 million concurrent users

Liam Dawe — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 09:21:41 +0000

There seems to be no stopping Steam right now, Valve are on a roll with repeatedly breaking their own user records.

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Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive once again smash user records

Liam Dawe — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:28:59 +0000

What seems to be a regular occurrence now during the COVID-19 outbreak, both Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have yet again broken their own concurrent user records.

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Half-Life: Alyx arrives today (Linux should come later) and CS:GO gets Alyx cosmetics

Liam Dawe — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:25:18 +0000

As Half-Life: Alyx arrives today, just a reminder that it should hopefully be coming to Linux in a post-release update. On top of that, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive got some fancy cosmetics for it.

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Steam and CS:GO break records again, plus a look over February's top releases

Liam Dawe — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:09:25 +0000

If this seems like a bit of Déjà vu you would be right, as both Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have repeatedly smashed user records lately. Plus let's take a look over February's top releases.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hits over 1 million online, Steam breaks user records again

Liam Dawe — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:02:42 +0000

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve's free to play competitive shooter which also features the newer Danger Zone mode which is like a Battle Royale has today hit over a million players online. Additionally, Steam itself broke another record.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Operation Shattered Web will end on March 30

Liam Dawe — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:57:17 +0000

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gained a lot of new stuff for Operation Shattered Web, including the Battle Pass system and it's all coming to an end this month.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive adds the first Agent customization with Patches

Liam Dawe — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:30:52 +0000

Valve are pushing out more customization options to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, with the ability to add Patches sewn into Agent's outfits.

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Steam hit another all-time high for concurrent users - as did Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Liam Dawe — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 19:11:19 +0000

Does this seem familiar? You would be right. In the last week, both Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hit new records for users online and they've been broken yet again.

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Valve making steps to address toxic behaviour on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Liam Dawe — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 09:54:27 +0000

One of my all-time favourite first-person shooters, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, is about to tell naughty players to sort their attitude out.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's mission system in Operation Shattered Web is pretty good

Liam Dawe — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:19:05 +0000

I will admit, after dropping an update last night with a big new Operation for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive I was a little sceptical with the Battle Pass system. However, it's surprisingly good.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive releases the huge Operation Shattered Web update

Liam Dawe — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:34:14 +0000

Not content with just announcing Half-Life: Alyx, their new VR flagship title, Valve also updated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with a big new operation called Shattered Web.

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Valve ends Counter-Strike: Global Offensive container key trading and selling

Liam Dawe — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:48:22 +0000

The team at Valve working on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have now put an end to the selling and trading of new container keys.

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Valve updates Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for French players to deal with loot boxes

Liam Dawe — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:15:05 +0000

Rather than doing away with the loot boxes system, Valve are going with whatever loophole they can it seems. They've updated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive just for French players to include an X-ray Scanner.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive adds new maps and a "Scrimmage" game mode

Liam Dawe — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 09:29:47 +0000

Valve have updated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to introduce some new maps as well as mix up competitive play with a new "Scrimmage" game mode.

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Blacksite returns alongside Sirocco for the latest Danger Zone update in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Liam Dawe — Wed, 22 May 2019 14:05:11 +0000

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's newer Battle Royale mode, Danger Zone, continues to be tweaked and the original map has made a return.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive updated again - watch live events, Danger Zone updates and more

Liam Dawe — Wed, 15 May 2019 09:16:06 +0000

Valve seem to have a renewed focus on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive lately, with a lot of regular updates. This latest one has some fun new toys.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive now has much better queue times for Danger Zone

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:38:07 +0000

Following on from the tweak to Danger Zone to focus more on duos, Valve are still tweaking their Battle Royale mode in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as well as the game as a whole.

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Valve tweaks Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Danger Zone to be focused more on duos

Liam Dawe — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:10:50 +0000

Valve are continuing to tweak Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Danger Zone, the Battle Royale mode they added back in December last year.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive had plenty of updates lately, Danger Zone is looking good

Liam Dawe — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 11:46:43 +0000

Valve have been quick to respond to feedback and issues with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive lately, especially with the Danger Zone Battle Royale mode. In the last week, it's had a few nice updates.

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Some thoughts on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s Danger Zone, the new Battle Royale mode

Liam Dawe — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:10:59 +0000

Now that the dust has settled and I’ve been able to put plenty of time into the new Danger Zone mode for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, I have some more thoughts.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive introduces a Battle Royale mode, goes free to play

Liam Dawe — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 21:34:21 +0000

Valve have released Danger Zone, a Battle Royale mode for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive along with it going free to play.

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