Counter-Strike

Valve

Released
Nov 1, 2000
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  1. PCGamesN

    World of Warcraft gets a perfect recreation of Counter-Strike's most iconic map, and it's even got Goose

    World of Warcraft 's housing system has become a beacon of creativity since arriving with Midnight, not that I'm surprised considering just how expansive the toolset is. From roving houses that may as well have been plucked from Howl's Moving Castle, to holes in the ground where

  2. PCGamesN

    You can now play Counter-Strike 1.6 in VR thanks to the modders who already gave Half-Life and Doom the same treatment

    When dabbling in any of the titles on our best FPS games list, the goal is to feel locked-in and immersed. You want to feel the bright-white flash and piercing ring of a flashbang, the satisfaction of a long-range snipe, or the sensation of flicking onto the cranium of an opposin

  3. PCGamesN

    Development of a Counter-Strike 1.6 remake has been "frozen" as Valve silence leaves its future in doubt

    While you can still get your hit of classic Counter-Strike on Steam, the original CS experience is getting an unofficial remake. Or rather, it was. Last year, it was revealed that a team of seasoned Counter-Strike modders were creating CS: Legacy , a ground-up remake of CS 1.6 in

  4. PCGamesN

    Counter-Strike Source soars to 13-year Steam high, and GMod may be the culprit

    Nostalgics and newbies alike have swarmed to classic Valve shooter Counter-Strike Source . Hailed as one of the defining FPS games of its era, CS Source is now furiously bunnyhopping its way up the Steam charts, enjoying a wave of popularity unseen in over a decade. While there's

  5. Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    Come slide with me through loopy shooter maps in this homage to Counter-Strike's beloved glitch surfing

    Counter-Strike surfing is a modded game mode for Valve's bomb defusal FPS in which players skate through obstacle courses by means of a physics glitch. It has a proud history dating back to 2004, when modder Charles "Mariowned" Joyce discovered that it was far more enjoyable to s

  6. PCGamesN

    Counter-Strike creator explains why he left Valve, says he partly regrets it now

    At 20 years old, Minh Le, better known as 'Gooseman,' co-created what would become one of the biggest and most popular videogames in the world. Originally a humble Half-Life mod, Counter-Strike was quickly spotted and bought by Valve, which also hired its two developers. 25 years

  7. PC Gamer

    The mod that aimed to recreate Counter-Strike 1.6 in CS:GO is now officially cancelled following 'abrupt actions by Valve that prevent us from releasing' the project

    Despite a brief blip of hope that a way forward may be found, the ambitious Counter-Strike mod Classic Offensive has been officially cancelled... Read more.

  8. PCGamesN

    Unofficial Counter-Strike remake allegedly shut down by Valve after eight years

    Take the maps, skins, and overall balance and feel of classic Counter-Strike and remake it all using the tech that powers CSGO. That was the dream of Classic Offensive, a long-running mod project that first started life back in 2017. But now, eight years after development began,

  9. Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    Counter-Strike modders are remaking the classic shooter, and they're using Valve's official Source Engine SDK to do it

    There are two shooters that I imagine will never die, because they just seem to hang on despite being incredibly old and plenty of other games coming out in the mean-time: Team Fortress 2 , and Counter-Strike (both Valve games, funnily enough - they've clearly got the Source (sor

  10. PCGamesN

    Counter-Strike 1.6 is getting a total remake, built by the legendary ProMod team

    Counter-Strike 2 is doing exceptionally well. As of Saturday March 15, Valve's multiplayer shooter achieved a new concurrent player count record, with a staggering 1,824,989 people playing CS2 simultaneously. Deadlock is standing strong. Half-Life 3...might still happen. Needless

  11. PCGamesN

    Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and even Day of Defeat have been updated by Valve

    It was choppy, unreliable, and populated almost entirely by screamy mic spammers, but my word, do I miss the days of Half-Life Deathmatch Source. It's one of the enduring images of my own PC gaming past - a team of HLDM Source players, all wearing the G-Man skin, sprinting throug

  12. PCGamesN

    Counter-Strike creator regrets not balancing the AWP

    Between 1.6, Source, CSGO, and Counter-Strike 2, the PC's favorite multiplayer shooter has been through innumerate changes in the last 25 years. Originally a mod for Valve's Half-Life, Counter-Strike has grown into the most popular game on Steam. But despite its myriad evolutions

  13. PC Gamer

    Counter-Strike co-creator says he's happy they sold the game to Valve—'They have done a great job of maintaining the legacy'

    Counter-Strike recently celebrated its 25th anniversary , and is more popular than ever. The original Half-Life mod became a standalone title after Valve hired co-creators Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jesse "Cliffe" Cliffe, and since then has iterated and grown into the most popular co

  14. Developer post

    December 12, 2023 Update

    Fixes for joining games through invites and Steam friends list. Miscellaneous UI fixes for Dedicated Servers. Fixed an occasional crash when opening the scoreboard. Fixed camera movement after death in multiplayer. Fixed crash when creating a server if the server creator's Steam

  15. Developer post

    December 1, 2023 Update

    Fixed crash when modifying certain video settings in a multiplayer match. Fixed server browser issues after modifying video settings. Fixed local player not showing up in player count on a listen server using Steam Networking. Fixed rare corrupted lighting rendering bug in some m

  16. Developer post

    November 29, 2023 Update

    Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes have been updated to support the Half-Life 25th Anniversary engine updates, including all related fixes from Counter-Strike. Fixed lighting rendering issues on some AMD GPUs. Added "Use shaders" checkbox for the vi

  17. Developer post

    November 22, 2023 Update

    Counter-Strike has been updated to support many of the features from the Half-Life 25th Anniversary update. If you are still experiencing compatibility or stability issues, it is suggested that you install the "steam_legacy" beta branches of Half-Life and Counter-Strike (selectab

  18. PCGamesN

    Counter-Strike and CoD players are getting random Steam ban notices

    Steam VAC ban notices are suddenly appearing for Counter-Strike, Call of Duty, and Team Fortress 2 players, despite the fact that - in some cases - they haven't actually played the game in years. CS 1.6, Modern Warfare 2, and TF2 players say they are getting Valve Anti-Cheat noti

  19. PCGamesN

    CS2 has more players than the next top nine Steam games combined

    Counter-Strike 2 is finally here, which means both long-time fans and newcomers to Valve's iconic shooter are already hopping in-game to play through the updated maps. CS2 arrived as a free update to Counter-Strike Global Offensive, replacing the latter in the process. Now that C

  20. Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    Counter-Strike's Dust2 is now in Alien: Isolation, thanks to new mod tools

    A big new update to unofficial mod tools for Alien: Isolation has greatly expanded the range of mods people can make. Modders can now add custom models, materials, textures, and more to Creative Assembly's horror shooter. To quickly demonstrate the new capabilities, the toolmaker