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Come slide with me through loopy shooter maps in this homage to Counter-Strike's beloved glitch surfing CS 1.6
Updates & Patches 1 yrs ago

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...

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Counter-Strike creator explains why he left Valve, says he partly regrets it now CS 1.6
Updates & Patches 1 yrs ago

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...

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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 CS 1.6
Events & Operations 1 yrs ago

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.

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Unofficial Counter-Strike remake allegedly shut down by Valve after eight years CS 1.6
Updates & Patches 1 yrs ago

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 ...

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Counter-Strike modders are remaking the classic shooter, and they're using Valve's official Source Engine SDK to do it CS 1.6
Updates & Patches 1 yrs ago

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 ...

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Counter-Strike 1.6 is getting a total remake, built by the legendary ProMod team CS 1.6
Updates & Patches 1 yrs ago

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...

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Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and even Day of Defeat have been updated by Valve CS 1.6
Updates & Patches 1 yrs ago

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 ...

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Counter-Strike creator regrets not balancing the AWP CS 1.6
Updates & Patches 2 yrs ago

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 m...

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Counter-Strike co-creator says he's happy they sold the game to Valve—'They have done a great job of maintaining the legacy' CS 1.6
Updates & Patches 2 yrs ago

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...

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December 12, 2023 Update CS 1.6
Community 2 yrs ago

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 multip...

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