30 Years of Valve: The Top 10 Things the Company Gave Us, from Half-Life to the Skin Market
On 24 August 1996, Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington walked out of Microsoft and registered a studio of their own. No shipped […]
CS:GO’s Birthday: The Things That Simply Didn’t Exist 14 Years Ago
Skins in your inventory. Stickers on your gun. A line in the HLTV ranking. Your own agent in matchmaking. Free entry to […]
Budget CS2 Skin Set: Knife, Gloves and a Full Loadout for Under $200
The skin market has been sliding for months now, and every player ends up asking the same question: what do you actually […]
EWC 2026 Playoff Predictions: Who Has the Best Shot at the Esports World Cup?
Paris has finished sorting the contenders from the passengers. Of the dozens of teams that flew in for Esports World Cup 2026, […]
The Best Black CS2 Skins: An All-Dark Loadout for the Solar Eclipse of August 12, 2026
The all-black loadout is a build everyone gets around to sooner or later. It doesn’t ask for rare patterns, low floats or […]
The Oldest Skins in Counter-Strike: What Became of the Arms Deal Collections 13 Years On
On August 14, 2013, Valve shipped the update that stopped Counter-Strike from being just a shooter. The Arms Deal Update brought in […]
Top 10 Cryptids Stickers from the Steam Workshop: Interactive Designs, Lenticulars, and a Theme Almost Nobody Touched
We promised a separate piece on Cryptids, so here it is. But we have to start with the numbers rather than the […]
Sixty-Four Teams Under One Roof: Why EWC in Paris Should Terrify the Major
For three days in Paris, Counter-Strike looked the way it hasn’t looked in twenty years. Sixty-four teams showed up for the Esports […]
Valve Just Wiped Out Another Round of CS2 Farms. What It Means for the Skin Market
No press release. No developer post. Not a line in the patch notes. But on the night of August 6, panic broke […]
Top 10 Pop Art Stickers from the Steam Workshop: Sticker Patterns and a Brand-New Chiaroscuro Style?!
On July 16, Valve kicked off its second Call to Arms-ory and named three directions: the Fairy Tales weapon collection and two […]
Once Upon a Skin: The First Workshop Entries for VALVE’s Fairy Tales Contest
VALVE has rolled out another themed Workshop contest, and this time the prompt is about as rich as they come: fairy tales. […]
SIH Mobile: Your Entire SIH SDA Now Lives in Your Pocket
Let’s start with the basics so the rest makes sense. Every Steam account is protected by Steam Guard two-factor authentication, and in […]
