Remember when the Steam Market didn't look like a stock exchange, and the most valuable thing in half the server's inventories was a couple of Katowice stickers? In 2014–2015, CS:GO was still finding its feet. Cases dropped one per operation, and almost nobody used the word "investment" when talking about skins.There were far fewer skins back then, and even fewer you could actually afford. So the same finishes showed up

On October 1, Valve shipped a modest 700 MB CS2 update: some map fixes and a handful of new crosshair settings. Then it had to pull the patch after some players started crashing on launch, and pushed it back out shortly after. Somewhere in that scramble, something made it into the live build that was never meant for players' eyes: the developers' own debug tools.Valve almost never talks about what's

You can play Danger Zone in CS2 again. Community developers have rebuilt CS:GO's battle royale on community servers, and the project got a major update at the end of September. It's still in beta, but there's another reason people are paying attention: more and more traces in the game files suggest Valve may be quietly laying the groundwork for the mode's return, too.Danger Zone was always Counter-Strike's odd but much-loved

The Rush Hour update brought a 3v3 mode, clan tags and pet chickens to CS2, but for sticker fans the real headline was one short line in the patch notes: you can now put stickers on the C4. The bomb holds up to five stickers, and someone on the T side carries it every single round. That makes it one of the most visible items in the game, seen by