The world’s largest independent eSports brand, ESL, broke industry records once again with its world class ESL One product. Hosted at gamescom, ESL One Cologne 2014 saw the best Counter Strike: Global Offensive teams from all over the world compete for US$250,000 in community-funded prize money as a peak online concurrent viewership (both in-game and on Twitch) of 409,368 watched the action unfo... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling games (such as Dota 2, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced a $250,000 community-funded prize pool for The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Championship. The CS:GO crowd-funding initiative began several weeks ago with the release of The Arms ... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the release of The Arms Deal Update for its tactical first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which allows players to collect, buy, sell and trade decorated in-game weapons for the first time. The Update wi... more.

Minh "Gooseman" Le, known for co-creating the highly popular and successful first person shooter (FPS), Counter Strike and the recently launched team-based online FPS Tactical Intervention, will host a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) on Thursday, May 2 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern/12:00 p.m. Pacific. Developed by the legendary FPS designer, Minh Le and FIX Korea, fans have long-awaited the release of... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the release of "Operation Payback", the first of an ongoing series of limited-time updates aimed at giving a well-earned financial reward to some of CS:GO's most popular and prolific mapmakers. Avai... more.

OGPlanet, a leading publisher of Free-to-Play, multiplayer, online games, along with Counter Strike co-creator, Minh "Gooseman" Le, announced today that they have officially launched Tactical Intervention, a team-based, online first-person shooter (FPS) in North America. After a successful Open-Beta test, Tactical Intervention is set to launch in North America today, Thursday, March 28, with... more.

Today we are pleased to announce that Tactical Intervention has officially entered Open Beta testing (Thursday, March 14 at 10:00AM PST, 1:00PM EST), the final phase before the game's release later this month, on Thursday, March 28, 2013. Open Beta Details: ● Open Beta testing is now live (10:00AM PST, 1:00PM EST, March 14, 2013) ● Open to all OGPlanet-registered North American pl... more.

OGPlanet, a publisher of Free-to-Play, multiplayer, online games, announced today that they, alongside Minh "Gooseman" Le, the co-creator of Counter-Strike, are gearing up to launch Tactical Intervention, a team-based, first-person shooter (FPS), on March 28 in North America with the game entering Open-Beta Testing March 14. Developed by the legendary FPS designer, Minh Le and FIX Korea, fan... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now available via Steam, with the North American PSN launch and worldwide Xbox launch happening later tonight and tomorrow morning. . CS: GO expands on the classic team-based action gameplay that Cou... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is available for pre-purchase worldwide. All players who pre-purchase on Steam receive a 10% discount and gain early access to the beta on August 14th. CS: GO expands on the classic team-based action gam... more.