Given the massive success of Epic's Fortnite, it really shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that any game able to fit a Battle Royale mode, is trying to do exactly that. The latest contender in this already crowded genre, and one I genuinely expected would be able to weather the Battle

Back in February Valve removed Dust2 from active duty and placed it into the reserves group. In other words, they pulled it from tournament play in order to rework and rebalance the whole map. And now, nearly a year later, the remastered version of Dust2 has finally made its way to the test

Back in February Valve removed Dust2 from active duty and placed it into the reserved group. While this little change didn't affect public play as Dust2 still remains the most popular map around, it did mean that official tournaments and leagues could not use it. As you might expect, this was

While the various CS:GO Operations have always had something added for non-paying players, the newly launched Operation Hydra has taken things to a whole new level. Besides adding four new and three community-created maps, Operation Hydra has also brought with it the CS:GO version of custom

[Update]: Without any prior warning, Valve has just unleashed Counter-Strike 2 as a free update!

In a bit of a ...

[Update]: Without any prior warning, Valve has just unleashed Counter-Strike 2 as a free update!

Valve is pretty well known these days for the overwhelming amount of cosmetic items

After revamping the entirety of Nuke, another classic Counter-Strike map, Valve has apparently set their sights on Inferno as their next renovation project. And as you can probably guess from the title, they've

Unless you've somehow managed to avoid almost all gaming-related news sources for the past few weeks, you've probably heard about the whole CS:GO Lotto mess. In short, a couple of popular CS:GO Youtubers have been found gaming the system (ie. cheating) in order to positively promote a betting

If you're an avid CS:GO player you've most likely heard of FMPONE, but for those of you that haven't - he's an extremely talented map maker that has managed to get quite a few of his creations to become an official part

Valve might not be the best at communication but when it comes to fostering a community around their games they are absolutely unmatched.

And with the recent announcement that CS:GO Major Championships, starting with MLG Columbus 2016, will have a prize pool of $1,000,000 Valve has

Its been a very long time since the last CS:GO operation and competitive map shake-up so this update, as far as I'm concerned, couldn't have come any sooner.

Operation Wildfire brings with it two new campaigns, timed missions, a bunch of bug fixes, map changes and most importantly the

In a move that made a lot of people very angry Valve has decided to ban CS:GO community servers that were found to be providing custom skins (such as guns and knives) or emblems/rank tags.

This decision wasn't aimed at servers running various texture replacement mods (such as the

Thank goodness. I feel like I've talked about this topic to death but ever since the CS:GO Winter Update the game's balance took a

If you've been paying attention to the PC based news sits the past few days you would have noticed the utter confusion many, including me, felt after Valve added the R8 revolver in CS:GO's Winter