Valve's obligatory post-Major update has finally shipped, and it's a big one--Nuke is being added to the Active Duty map pool while Inferno is unceremoniously moved...
Have you looked at the queue times for the Operation Wildfire maps recently? It's a sad sight--unless there's a Blitz mission going on, expect...
Gather close, gentle readers. Today, I'm going to share something very special to me with all of you. No, it's not a sandwich. It's...
In this five-part series, we’ll go back to five of the oldest games that birthed esports, play them, and examine their relevance in esports...
Today is the first day of the largest tournament in Counter-Strike history: MLG Columbus 2016. The first Major with a $1 million dollar prize pool...
With the Columbus 2016 Major right around the corner, professional CS:GO players and their teams are all vying for their slice of your sticker...
Welcome to the second installment of Booster Shot, an article series where I--your ever-stalwart Counter-Strike reporter--explore and explain unique, highly situational, and mostly useless...
The LAN is a cultural institution unto itself in the world of professional Counter-Strike. I was talking with a colleague the other day about...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has always been sorely lacking in the tutorial department. For a game with complex and often counter-intuitive mechanics, this can be...
Here's a challenge--load up a game of Matchmaking in CS:GO and see many rounds you can play before a teammate complains about being "baited." It...
The internet era is the era of commercialism. Just look up at the URL of this page. The .com suffix is our way--the internet's way,...
Sometimes, in Counter-Strike, everything goes right--out of a combination of luck and skill, the stars align in your favor. Think of a perfect pop...
