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CS 1.6
Gabe Newell apparently spent "five months" singing Mongolian throat songs around the Valve office
Counter-Strike co-creator Minh Le recalls his time at Valve, including Gabe Newell's bizarre five-month Mongolian throat singing phase. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Gabe Newell apparently spent "five months" singing ...
CS 1.6
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 pluck...
CS 1.6
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,...
CS 1.6
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 modder...
CS 1.6
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 ...
CS 1.6
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 "Mar...
CS 1.6
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 bo...
CS 1.6
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.
CS 1.6
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 ...
CS 1.6
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 ...
CS 1.6
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...
CS 1.6
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 ...
