Bruna is a contributor from Brazil. Although she's an advertising executive, she has been working as a pop culture journalist since 2004, and before Game Rant she worked as a contributor for TechTudo, ...

The annual HLTV Awards presented by 1xBet are set to return this weekend, bringing the Counter-Strike community together in ...

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 ...

HLTV revealed the winners of its 2025 HLTV Awards on Saturday night, honoring the top players, teams and creators in ...

TL;DR: Counter-Strike 2 has set a new player peak record of 1,824,989, becoming the fourth highest on Steam, driven by its growing popularity and esports presence. Despite not surpassing PUBG's record ...

Danil “ molodoy ” Golubenko was arguably the Counter-Strike revelation of 2025. A relatively unheard of AWPer surprisingly ...

CS2 is built to be as obtuse and unfriendly to new players as possible. The game is losing players compared to VALORANT; here ...

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 ...

Team Beef is very well-versed in porting classic FPS games to VR. Half-Life has already been ticked off, as have the likes of ...

Presenting The Escapist’s CS2 maps tier list, going over all the active Counter-Strike maps currently available in active ...

Counter-Strike, the world’s most popular online action game and first-person shooter for the PC, makes its console debut exclusively on Xbox and Xbox Live. Counter-Strike for Xbox features ...

Counter-Strike 2 hit a new peak player count of over 1.7 million on Steam on February 16. The game has seen no major updates recently, leading some to wonder what has caused this sudden boost in ...