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Late on October 28, Valve pushed another update that turned CS2’s Casual servers into a ’90s game with a cheat code switched […]

Halloween is just days away, and CS2 still doesn’t have a single pumpkin. No zombie chickens, no ghosts, no candy corn flying […]

On Friday, October 16, Deadlock added a new hero — Violet, a painter. Fifty minutes later, 303,347 people were in the game. […]

Late on September 22, Valve shipped the Rush Hour update and, for the first time in CS2’s three-year life, added a matchmaking […]

On October 1, Valve shipped a modest 700 MB CS2 update: some map fixes and a handful of new crosshair settings. Then […]

Valve dropped Rush Hour overnight on September 23, and it’s easily one of the biggest Counter-Strike 2 updates of 2026. The patch […]

On September 29, Valve pulls the Major Shop from the game, and with it goes the chance to buy Cologne Major stickers […]

For a lot of people, CS2 investing started with cases. No floats, no patterns, no rare stickers: you grabbed a couple hundred […]

On 27 August the whole of gaming did exactly one thing: watched Jason and Lucia finally move, shoot and talk. The Extended […]

On 24 August 1996, Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington walked out of Microsoft and registered a studio of their own. No shipped […]

Skins in your inventory. Stickers on your gun. A line in the HLTV ranking. Your own agent in matchmaking. Free entry to […]

No press release. No developer post. Not a line in the patch notes. But on the night of August 6, panic broke […]

Just four days ago we published “The Major No Longer Bankrolls the Scene” where — off the back of HLTV’s investigation — […]

HLTV has dropped a major investigation into what the Major economy has become since Valve buried the sticker capsule and moved IEM […]

On July 6, Valve wrapped up Premier Season 4, took the mode offline for a couple of days, and came back with […]

There’s hardly any time left until July 6, and the questions have piled up enough to fill an article all on their […]

When Cache landed in CS2, you’d have been hard-pressed to find a single person in the community who doubted it would slot […]

IEM Cologne Major 2026 has delivered the most radical overhaul of in-game tournament items in CS history. The familiar sticker capsules are […]