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Valve Retires Dust2 From The Active Duty Pool
An era is coming to an end as Valve has announced that it is removing the popular and classic Counter-Strike map Dust2 from the active duty group. While this piece of news might sound bad, it really isn’t. All the casual players around the world who love to play this classic…
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Weather Changing Mod Adds a New Challenge to Counter Strike
Counter-Strike is one of the most popular games of all time, putting your mouse and keyboard skills to the ultimate gaming test of response times, where the weak are quickly weeded out and the regulars still flash bang themselves from time to time. Every map has been fine tuned for…
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Counter-Strike dust2 Map Recreated in CryEngine Looks Incredible
We love our PC games here at eTeknix, and we love it even more when fan made projects like this crop up and inspire us at how diverse and capable the PC gaming community can be. TekVoL has recreated the iconic dust2 map from Counter-Strike in CryEngine, and while it’s…
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Valve Monetizes Sprays and Graffiti in CS:GO
As part of the recent patch to popular title CS:GO, Valve finally brought in a long-awaited feature. At long last, CS:GO will have sprays and graffiti implemented. This brings back a feature that CS:Source and 1.6 as well other Valve titles have had in the past. CS:GO actually didn’t have this…
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CS:GO Skin Gambling Outs Streamers For Illegal Behavior
When it comes to online gaming there are several areas that prove to be almost dangerous to those involved. Firstly you have actual online gaming, with people often resorting to childish name calling or swatting to try level out the playfield. The second area is streaming, with swatting being opened…
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CS:GO Cheaters Now Banned by Their Linked Phone Numbers
When it comes to cheating, there is always someone willing to push their luck hoping they won’t get caught. Valve is looking to help narrow down the number of ways you can cheat by banning people not just on their emails but also their phone numbers. The advantage of two-factor authentication,…
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Play Counter-Strike 1.6 on Android!
When it comes to technology we are often told about how quickly it is advancing, both in power and the level that we adapt it to our lifestyles. One such popular activity would be the games we play, going from 8-bit dungeon explorers to giant adventure games across stars and…
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Counter-Strike Players Unhappy about Valve’s New Mod Restrictions
Counter-Strike is definitely one of the most versatile and popular games in the world right now, but it looks like its creators want to change things up a bit as far as modding support is concerned. To be more specific, Valve has recently decided to restrict all server mods that…
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eSports to Join the Curriculum in a Norwegian High School
It seems like such a great profession, being paid sums of money to play games all day. Much like being a real athlete, becoming an eSports player requires far more dedication and practice than many are willing to put in. Recognition of the skill and effort required to play at…
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Are These the Best Video Game Remakes Ever?
Classic games are great, but just like so many movies that have been remade, although often not the better for it, gaming is no stranger to remakes of older titles either. Every now and then, we’ll get a remake that is actually better than the original and while I must…
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CS:GO Gets TV Spot On Fox Sports 1
E-sports are becoming more and more of a publicly known event, it used to be that players would gather around with their friends and watch their teams fight out through their web browser. There have been documentaries about e-sports in the cinema and now tournaments are also backed by crowd…
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ESL Testing eSports Players For Drug Usage
Gaming is a big market, and with games like League of Legends, Counter-Strike, Smite and Dota offering hundreds of thousands in prizes the competition heats up every year with each competition. As with all competitions, people use every chance to get ahead and sometimes these methods are seen as morally…
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Dreamhack LAN Event Coming to London This Year!
Have you heard about DreamHack? You haven’t? Well, you should know that it is the biggest computer festival in the world! The best part about it is that it will be hosted at the Copper Box Arena in London this September. The event started out as a StarCraft II competition…
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Counter Strike: Global Offensive’s Well-Known Bug Gets Acknowledged by Valve
If you are a Counter Strike: Global Offensive player, then you probably know about the bug. However, let’s outline it again for those of you who might not have experienced it, though it is highly unlikely if you have played the title by now. In a shooter video game, there…
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Source 2: Valve’s First New Game Engine in 11 Years!
Valve has unveiled its new game engine at GDC 2015, its first for 11 years. Source 2 is the successor to the original Source engine, released in 2004 with the launch of first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Source (above). Jay Stelly, Software Developer at Valve, said in a press release that “with…
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