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Report: CS:GO played by 17 per cent of core PC gamers globally following battle royale addition and shift to free-to-play News Jan 24th, 2019

Report: CS:GO played by 17 per cent of core PC gamers globally following battle royale addition and shift to free-to-play

Newzoo records a rise of 39.3 per cent month-on-month

Valve's anti-cheat system booted 600k players in December, mostly from CS:GO News Jan 8th, 2019

Valve's anti-cheat system booted 600k players in December, mostly from CS:GO

Follows online shooter's move from premium to free-to-play

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hit an all-time peak of 20 million unique players over December News Jan 3rd, 2019

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hit an all-time peak of 20 million unique players over December

Record player count follows Valve’s shooter going free-to-play last month

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes free-to-play as battle royale mode rolls out News Dec 7th, 2018

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes free-to-play as battle royale mode rolls out

Danger Zone offers a highly compressed take on the last-man-standing genre

You can now play (a very limited version of) Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for free News Aug 31st, 2018

You can now play (a very limited version of) Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for free

Free players are restricted to bot matches and spectating other players’ games

Dutch and Belgian CS:GO players can trade again but loot boxes are off-limits News Jul 13th, 2018

Dutch and Belgian CS:GO players can trade again but loot boxes are off-limits

Valve update restrictions in attempt to comply with regional gambling laws

SteamSpy was briefly 100 per cent accurate and has released Steam's top-selling games News Jul 9th, 2018

SteamSpy was briefly 100 per cent accurate and has released Steam's top-selling games

Unsurprisingly, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: GO and PUBG among the best-sellers

Valve has 1,700 CPUs tasked with halting CS:GO cheaters News Mar 26th, 2018

Valve has 1,700 CPUs tasked with halting CS:GO cheaters

Software giant details how it is using machine learning to get rid of foul play in its online shooter

It looks like Counter-Strike: GO is getting in on the battle royale craze News Dec 18th, 2017

It looks like Counter-Strike: GO is getting in on the battle royale craze

According to datamined game files

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