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Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Valve continues to print money with its Counter-Strike franchise as reports indicate the hub for PC gaming made a staggering $100 million from just Counter ...

Bomb has been supplanted.

Thousands reported Counter-Strike 2 server issues Wednesday evening, with outage reports topping 2,000 on Down Detector shortly after 6:50 p.m. ET.

While the bomb-planting/defusing game mode has always been the main draw of Counter-Strike, there were still other popular modes included in CS:GO. One of the most played is Arms Race, a mode where ...

Valve shocked Counter-Strike players this week when the developer released a new update for Counter-Strike 2 that makes a critical change to the reload function. Now, when players reload a gun, any ...

Season 5 of Counter-Strike 2 has finally arrived, and Valve has some huge changes in store that have massive implications for competitive play.

Counter-Strike 2 has already given several incredible CSGO maps a fresh coat of paint, but there's a fan-favorite that's been surprisingly absent from the FPS game. Home to so many memories, players ...

Why it matters: It's usually taken for granted that guns don't reload realistically in most video games. Overly cautious players wishing to enter each encounter with a full magazine habitually reload ...