Counter-Strike: GO News

Valve Training AI To Detect Counter-Strike Cheaters

February 16, 2017 Sean Sullivan Comments

Valve is working with machine learning to detect cheaters in Counter-Strike, as a means of replacing player reports and anticheat software. You could call it an "AI Watchdog." So, watch out aimbotters, spinbotters, flying dutchmen, and wallhackers, HAL may be monitoring everything you do. Of course implementing such a system is no easy task. "The process of parsing, training, and [...]

World Of Warcraft Is September's Second Most Played Game According To Newzoo

October 28, 2016 Matt Chelen Comments

Newzoo has released a new report detailing the "Most Played Core PC Games in September" and there are a few interesting notes included. While it hasn't knocked League of Legends out of its #1 most played spot, the release of Legion saw World of Warcraft shoot up three ranks, knocking Minecraft, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Hearthstone down one place each. While [...]

Valve Will Be Going After Steam Item Gambling Sites

July 14, 2016 Matt Chelen Comments

Following news that Valve is being sued over creating an environment in which gambling sites that make use of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skins could exist, the company released an official statement on the matter yesterday. The statement confirms that Valve has "no business relationships with any of these sites." The sites make use of the OpenID API that Valve provides [...]

A Tale of Asian Shooters

March 31, 2016 Erhan Altay Comments

First-person shooters are regarded as mainly a Western genre. Asians hold the top spots in RTS games like Starcraft 2 and MOBAs like League of Legends, but the best Counter Strike: Global Offensive players usually hail from North America and Europe. Many Asians even get motion sickness when they play FPS games for prolonged periods of time. The popularity of [...]