Two Decades of Counter-Strike

2019.06.18 -


Twenty years ago, a humble Half-Life mod changed the gaming world. Constantly evolving and shifting over the years, Counter-Strike has never lost its fundamentals: it’s easy to learn, takes a lifetime to master, and is supported by a massive global community.

You can celebrate the history of CS with a retro version of Dust II, currently available in the Casual Dust II map group. There’s also a new sticker capsule featuring the unsung heroes of CS – chickens!

Welcome to Counter-Strike.net

2012.02.14 -

Today we are kicking off the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta. Players currently in the stress test will notice more maps, more weapons, and most importantly more players.

During this Beta, community feedback is really important to us. Counter-Strike has been around for 12 years and has been played by over 25 million players. We want to make sure to capture all of that experience and knowledge as we make Counter-Strike: Global Offensive the best version of Counter-Strike.

The most popular question we see posted, emailed, or tweeted is simple – how do I get access to the CS:GO Beta.

For us it is all about the community. Are you active in the community? Are you playing CS now? To reward the most active players, this week we are giving Beta access to the top 7000 active players around the world in CS:S and CS 1.6. We are also giving out additional keys to the top 500 players of CS:GO.

We also want to include the community at large so we are reaching out to prominent community sites and giving them keys to distribute to their communities over the coming weeks.

While we aren’t ready to give everyone access right now. We do have plans to get more people in the Beta. To help us select the next batch of players, we will be releasing a short survey in a few weeks that you can fill out and get on the list for a Beta key.

The first round of testing has already given us some great feedback. Today’s release has some changes we made based on that feedback. So keep it coming, CS:GO isn’t done.
Over the coming months we will begin to regularly share some of the data we collect from the game. Are maps balanced? Does the balance change based on player’s skill level? What strategies win the most often? What weapons perform the best on what maps? Sharing this data will help you understand our choices and changes. Let us know what data you would like to see.

So to all players currently playing Counter-Strike and to all of those who will be playing in the future,

Thanks,

The CS:GO Team

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Stress Test is Live

2011.11.30 -


Today, CSGO starts its first stress test of our servers and a variety of client hardware.

This stress test contains a limited set of weapons, items, game modes, and functionality.

If you have a beta key, fire up the game. Join a match on a server. Give us feedback in the Steam forums.

Don’t have a key? How do you get one? Hold tight. The stress test is currently closed as we test our server and client systems.

Counter-Strike: EVENTS

2011.10.16 -

CSGO Events

 

 

CS:GO Community Event @ PAX

2012.08.29 -

Are you going to PAX Prime this weekend?  We’ve partnered up with Intel’s LANFest to throw a Counter Strike: Global Offensive release event with the community on Saturday 9/1 in the FreePC area located in the WSCC Annex.

We will be running a casual CS:GO tournament and will also have CS:GO developers from Valve and Hidden Path onsite playing matches with the community.

Tournament Information:

Signups for the CS:GO tournament will begin Saturday morning at 10am in the FreePC area in the WSCC Annex. Participating teams will then check in at 2pm and the tournament will begin at 3pm.

The tournament format will be a 32 team 5v5 single elimination. Tournament winners will receive amazing prizes provided by Valve and Steel Series.

CS:GO Developer vs Community Matches:

We will also have CS:GO developers from Valve and Hidden Path playing matches with the community. There will be two sessions; the first session will be with the Hidden Path Devs at 1:00pm and the second will be with Valve Devs at 5:00pm.

Signups for these matches will begin Saturday morning at 10am in the FreePC area in the WSCC Annex.

Free Stuff!

We will have custom PAX 2012 CS:GO Merchandise for everyone that visits the FreePC area during the event, and following the matches CS:GO devs will be signing merchandise for the community.

If you’re going to PAX, make sure you visit Valve at the Intel LanFest and take part in this event.

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