Many gamers around the world have become a bit obsessed with the FPS numbers. It’s quite understandable – the more frames per second you have while playing a game, the more beautiful and “dense” the virtual world becomes. The situation with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is not so straightforward. On one hand, CS:GO maps look amazing with a […]
The newest Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update brought an unexpected sv_pure issue for players. Included in the patch were fresh kill feed icons and updated maps. Unfortunately, some players have now found themselves unable to play a full game without getting kicked. As a result, users are unfairly receiving abandon cooldowns and suspensions. The official patch notes say: “sv_pure servers […]
10 years is pass, so slow but yet so fast… From beginning till now we are faced with many problems, many many many thousands of hours we spend to provide these games for you for free… Yet its just beginning of a very nice fairy tales and we will continiune with this work as many […]
Counter-Strike might look like a moderately simplistic game. But once you start watching and playing more, you’ll begin to see its intricacies. It has a complex economic system that requires a good sense of mental math and critical thinking, along with the bread and butter gameplay mechanics—moving, aiming, fragging, and, of course, winning. You have to […]
I remember playing a Counter-Strike map in 2001 called fy_iceworld. It was a small simple grey killbox of a map that virtually anyone could’ve made within the first few hours of downloading the editor tools. fy_iceworld quickly became one of the most popular and divisive CS maps at my school. I was, of course, one of the […]
Looks like there’s a drip somewhere in Valve’s spigot. Source code for both Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has apparently been made public. The files appear to be from years ago, though that may not prevent present troublemakers from doing their thing. Some fan servers are worried enough that they’ve gone offline until they can assure that […]
In the year of our lord 2020, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has once again smashed its concurrent player record. Not only that, but it’s the neither the first nor second time this year, this month even, the multiplayer tactical shooter has outdone its own player count. Courtesy of Steam Charts, the most recent data has Counter-Strike: Global Offensive superseding its previous concurrent players […]
Though still incredibly popular, Dota 2’s numbers are on the decline. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has now reliably pushed past Dota 2’s peak and average player counts, making the shooter the more popular of Valve’s big online games and the top game on Steam. For December 2019, CS:GO posted peak users of 767,000 while Dota 2 reached nearly […]
CS:GO players have always had to deal with some annoying bugs littered throughout their matches, but the worst ones are those that prevent you from fighting back against an enemy. This happened to a player who found an invisible wall on Nuke yesterday. This wall blocks all incoming bullets on one side but allows anyone on […]
The CS:GO meta has changed drastically with the surprise release of the latest Operation, Shattered Web. Today, the CS:GO developers released Operation Shattered Web, which contains gameplay changes and all-new ‘Agents,’ weapon collections, missions, and more. But the most important change may be the Terrorist side SSG 553 rifle’s nerf. The developers hit the gun with a price increase—from $2,750 […]