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

When Valve let players put stickers on the bomb, the community turned the C4 into a brand-new canvas within days, and we rounded up the best early work back then. Crafters haven't slowed down since. They've moved past simply dressing up the keypad and started working the screen, building full-on concepts across the whole package. The brick nobody used to look at twice is now a real part of your