Right, thanks to the lovely people at Valve we’ve got a metric tonne of CS:GO keys to give out to our community members. As most of you will already know we’re giving out a stack at the AMD GamExperience event in London (get there) but for the regular readers we’re going to give some out...

Now, we know you’ve been mad keen to lay your hands on some CS:GO keys when the beta expanded and as we told you all along we were going to get them to you. We’ve got two giveaways coming your way shortly. The first will be at our AMD Heaven GamExperience event, where those who attend will have...

The newly awaited FPS title Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has undergone a number of changes in the beta update. The QUICKMATCH default map has changed from being de_dust to a more competitive de_dust2, making the game a lot more balanced for those playing. On top of this, many more updates have been...

Aim2Game Gives Away More Than $5000 of Prizes and Gear for Gamers to Celebrate Launch of Game Server Hosting MARKHAM, Ontario, (February 3, 2012) –Aim2Game today launched an ambitious campaign to revolutionize the game server hosting market, and to celebrate, plans to give away more than $5000 in gear and...

Is your CS abstinence starting to take over at work or school? You can now tend it by playing on your mobile device. A Russian mobile phone community – 4pda – has created a portable Counter-Strike 1.6 version for mobile devices running certain Android, ARM and GL systems. Although very simple, the mobile...

Although it may be hard to believe the title of this thread isn’t a thinly veiled attack on the age and hardware requirements of 1.6. You can actually play the game on your mobile phones. Now that’s out the way and I’ve hopefully avoided being reprimanded and psychologically assessed by the...

It seems that CS:GO will feature another map when the beta is expanded in 2012, or at least that seems to be the strong hint if the CS:GO developer’s tweets are anything to go by. Earlier today they asked the straightforward question “When we expand the beta, what maps should we add? Train, Nuke,...

A North American Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will kickoff today, featuring two CS 1.6 teams, as well as two CS:S teams, who will duke it out for a $1,500 prize purse.  The tournament is labeled GameCom CSGO Invitational Tournament and will run January 10-12. The tournament is hosted by...

Plantronics have announced that they are hosting a CS:GO tournament at CES between the 10th and 12th of January. The competition will be the first of its kind in North America and will feature teams from 1.6 and CS:S competing for $1,000. Representing North American 1.6 will be Back2Back and Ultimax Gaming,...

A TEENAGE boy has had a 25cm knife embedded in his skull after a dispute over an online computer game. Chinese media have reported that the boy was playing Counter-Strike with his friends at an internet cafe when the attack occurred. Xiao Wei, 16, of Mishazi town, in north-east China’s Jilin province,...