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

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jul 2025

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 13 May 2025

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

By Liam Dawe, 14 Nov 2024

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.

Counter-Strike 2 update The Armory released with weapon charms

By Liam Dawe, 3 Oct 2024

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

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

By Liam Dawe, 26 Apr 2024

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2023

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

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

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2023

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

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive keeps breaking player records

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2023

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

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

By Liam Dawe, 8 Sep 2022

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2022

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2022

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 15 Dec 2021

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 13 Dec 2021

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.

Operation Riptide is live for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

By Liam Dawe, 22 Sep 2021

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

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

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jul 2021

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jun 2021

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2021

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

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.