A Counter-Strike 2 update has crashed the video game's economy, wiping over $2 billion in real-world value. The dramatic plummet is due to surprise changes which make it easier to get rare in-game ...

The Counter-Strike 2 community has been thrown into turmoil after a fateful update from Valve sent shockwaves through Steam’s marketplace, causing the value of skins (purchased with real money) to ...

What's the best Counter-Strike map of all time? Dust and its various generational updates will always spring to mind first. But personally, I like Office, especially the CS: Source version - back in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. Last week, Valve released an update to Counter-Strike 2 ...

Counter-Strike 2 breaks concurrent player records in April 2025. With no major gameplay updates, it's unclear why CS2 continues to grow in popularity. Counter-Strike 2 has once again broken its ...

Counter-Strike has long been known for two things: tight tactical FPS gameplay and a thriving player marketplace effectively valued at literal billions of dollars. Now, thanks to a recent update from ...

I love seeing what's on top of the Steam chart. Over the last few years, we've had some gargantuan surprises rocket to the summit, only to slowly (or sometimes rapidly) fall from grace. Counter-Strike ...

Luke Dammann is a writer from the United States of America. Playing video games since before he can remember, writing about the next Halo or Call of Duty title comes naturally to Luke, who is always ...