Halloween is just days away, and CS2 still doesn't have a single pumpkin. No zombie chickens, no ghosts, no candy corn flying out of your rifle — the holiday that used to turn CS:GO into a little amusement park has been passing the game by for years now. As sad as it sounds, the community has made peace with that and stopped expecting these kinds of "treats" from Valve a

Grenade skins are showing up in the CS2 files again. Dataminers have turned up new strings and functionality tied to expanded equipment customization, and this time it goes beyond the empty slots for grenades, the Zeus, armor and defuse kits that have been sitting idle in the loadout menu for ages.Every find like this sets off the same chain reaction. First everyone pores over the screenshots from the files, then

Most of us inspect a CS2 skin exactly once — right after we buy it or it drops. A quick spin, a float check, close the inspect screen, done. That's a mistake, because there's a lot more hiding in those textures than you'd catch at a glance. Sometimes it's a character from a completely different game, sometimes it's art that only shows up on one specific pattern, and sometimes it's

On Friday, October 16, Deadlock added a new hero — Violet, a painter. Fifty minutes later, 303,347 people were in the game. That's a new all-time peak, and for a game still in closed beta, it's a ridiculous number. A week earlier, Deadlock had already passed Team Fortress 2's best-ever player count. Among Valve games, only CS2 and Dota 2 have higher peaks now. And this is a game that