On July 6, Valve wrapped up Premier Season 4, took the mode offline for a couple of days, and came back with one of the beefiest patches of the summer. And this is one of those cases where "new season" means far more than a cosmetic rebrand with yet another coin — we're talking several big changes at once: a reshuffled Active Duty pool, a completely reworked bomb-explosion mechanic, a

We're continuing our series of loadouts built around national-team colors. After yellow-and-green Brazil and blue-white-red France, we're taking on a squad whose nickname is literally its colors. Argentina's national team is known as "La Albiceleste" — the white-and-sky-blues — and we won't argue with that nickname: the national colors really are light blue and white, crowned by the golden May Sun from the flag. On top of that, they're the

Once upon a time there was a so-called esports Olympics — WESG. The event featured single-nation squads, or purpose-built national teams competing under their country's flag. Sadly — or maybe luckily — something like that is hard to picture in modern Counter-Strike. Sure, there's an attempt to revive the idea as the Esports Nations Cup, but let's be honest: orgs are hardly going to free up their players for a

We're continuing our series of loadouts built around national-team colors — and after yellow-and-green Brazil, we're taking on a squad with an equally recognizable tricolor. Team France: blue, white, red, "Les Bleus," generations of stars from Zidane to Mbappé, from kennyS to ZywOo. The colors of the French flag are one of the most rewarding palettes for a CS2 look: there's plenty of blue and white among the skins, and