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This Spring sees the release of Tactical Intervention on the PC, a game noteworthy because its development has been led by one of the co-creators of Counter-Strike. So the fact the two games look similar is no coincidence. More »
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YouTube user Blitzkrieg1981 has, after spending around 55 hours pausing and examining episodes of the hit TV show The Office, gone and replicated the entire thing as a map in first-person shooter Counter-Strike. More »
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The gang at XDA-Developers are hard at work on a full port of Counter-Strike to Android devices, but they've already released two playable versions Android owners can run go get free right now. More »
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The people at Valve Software like to tease. They don't, however, like to confirm the existence of new Half-Life games. More »
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An article on Hungary's MSN portal about teen sexuality uses an interesting image to illustrate its point. And by interesting I mean amazing. More »
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This mighty helpful YouTube video shows just how far Valve's shooter Counter-Strike has come over the past eight years, between the release of the landmark version 1.6 and subsequent revisions like Condition Zero, Source and the upcoming Global Offensive. More »
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The beta for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive went live yesterday. Know what that means? Yup! People filming themselves playing it then uploading it to the internet so we can all see. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5864061&view=rss&microfeed=true The beta for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is available now on Steam. You'll need a beta key and a PC to play it. Valve's limiting the first run to 10,000 players. Two maps are available: Dust and Dust2. More »
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As part of a study before people are actually sent to Mars, a team of volunteers spent 520 days locked inside a fake spaceship. To see if they could all stay alive and not, you know, kill each other. More »
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive had its first official tournament over the weekend at the New York Comic-Con. More »
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I captured about three minutes of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive while walking around New York Comic-Con on Thursday. More »
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If you're not quite sure how much spit and polish has been applied to Counter-Strike's more memorable levels as part of the game's upcoming Global Offensive update, check out these comparison shots. More »
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is Valve's retooling of the classic team-based first-person shooter Counter-Strike. Today, Valve revealed that the game will include "Arsenal Mode", which is based on the popular Counter-Strike: Source mod "Gun Game". More »
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The next Counter-Strike, the one coming out early next year called Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, won't be called Counter-Strike 2, because that game would be "something different", two of Valve's top people on the new game recently told Kotaku. More »
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You've seen the debut trailer, you've read Totilo's take on the game, now see the first eight screenshots for Valve's upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. More »
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The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive booth at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle is a madhouse. People are waiting on long lines to play it. But if you can't get in, you can at least watch it played on the big screen, through the largest crosshairs in town. More »
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In case you need a little visual reference to go with Totilo's extensive hands-on with Valve's latest shooter, here's a debut trailer for the upcoming Counter Strike: Global Offensive. More »
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I've played Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and can now say it's for me, too. More »
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Valve Software revealed the existence of the newest Counter-Strike today, but the company seemed a bit shy on specifics, saying that next year's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive would bring new weapons, gameplay modes and maps to the extremely popular competitive shooter. More »
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The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive rumors were true. Valve Software announced the game today and already added a listing for it to Steam. More »
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Out of nowhere, there's rumours flying around tonight that Valve is on the cusp of revealing a new game. More »
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Aram Bartholl has a habit of bringing the most recognizable things from our virtual worlds into reality. He created the first-person shooter glasses. He installed replicas of Need for Speed Underground 2's flashing neon arrows and Counter-Strike's crates in public spaces. Now he wants to construct one of the world's most played multiplayer maps, "de_dust" in the real world—at actual size. More »
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Should you lack Kuma War II, which on Saturday published a free episode recreating the raid on Osama bin Laden's final hiding spot, you may also download a free map of the Abottabad complex created with Counter Strike: Source More »
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Then perhaps you'll find the game Orion: Prelude of interest. It combines Tribes and Counter-Strike influence with a feature few sci-fi shooters are brave enough to include: Tyrannosaurus rex. Perhaps you'll be interested enough to fund it. More »
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Now we know how Freddie Wong, star of many a YouTube gun fight, is able to land so many head shots. More »
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Self-professed "virtual photographer" Robert Overweg has a portfolio up on his site, showcasing a series of shots he calls "The End of the Virtual World". More »
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When more than 40 people in their 20s stalk the streets of Brooklyn with concealed water guns, that can only mean one thing; a gang war game of CounterSquirt is going down. More »
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The rollout of Valve classics to Mac OS continues this week with oldie-but-goodie Counter Strike: Source, which in addition to getting a "major update" is on sale the next two days for $6.80. More »
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The 2010 Come Out & Play Festival will start tomorrow in Brooklyn, NY. I've mentioned it before, but now I can show you the test-run for the festival's live-action version of Atari classic Kaboom. More »
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The time to play a live-action version of an Atari classic is almost upon us. Players of CounterSquirt, prepare to assemble. The 2010 Come Out and Play Festival starts Friday in Brooklyn, New York. More »
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A Counter-Strike player in France has spent six months plotting a revenge attack against a man who beat him in an in-game knife fight. His eventual revenge was not in-game. More »
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This year's Cannes Film Festival isn't showing just one movie about gaming culture. It's showing two. There's French thriller Black Heaven with its naked bottom and now this, R U There with its awkward elevator propositioning. More »
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Valve sent word five minutes ago that the public release of Steam for the Mac will be on May 12. No other details were included in the statement. More »
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What's a good encore after winning two gold medals at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games? For one of the world's most accomplished cross-country skiers, it's playing alongside his world champion counterpart in Counter Strike at Norway's largest LAN party. More »
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An argument between Counter-Strike players at a Chinese net café over suspected use of a 'wallhack' cheat led to a 17-year-old boy being stabbed through the head with a foot-long knife - and living to tell the tale. (Graphic Photo) More »
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Game-blame news from Romania: a 15-year-old boy said to be "dependent" on video games stabbed to death his adoptive mother, after she refused to pay the Internet bill in hopes the disconnection would put an end to his Counter-Strike addiction. More »
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Located in Seoul's Yongsan Station, FPS World gives Koreans a chance to wield airsoft versions of Berettas and Desert Eagles — 3D versions of the guns they fire in shooters like Counter Strike. More »
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Last week, more than a million users flooded Xbox Live to play Modern Warfare 2. Here's something just as impressive: In January, nearly 300 gamers will meet in person to play a game released in 2000. More »
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There's something fantastical about flying in a video game. We can easily run, jump and swim in real life. Flight is more exotic. But we do fantasize about it. Where do you think the term "flights of fancy" comes from? More »
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Over in Moscow, two top Counter-Strike teams met in a LAN contest. As soon as they started runnin' and gunnin' however, the promoter threw in a surprise to test the team's focus: Strippers. Russian strippers. Let's get to the NSFW! More »
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