It was theorized and discussed in the past, but now it’s confirmed: ESL One Cologne is going to be held online instead of in the closed-studio environment that ESL have been hoping would come to fruition. More online matches,...
The first time many of us heard about Chaos (GS #37), it was when they faced off against the infamous toxicity of MIBR (GS #16) that resulted in a kid getting hundreds of death threats and fans of the...
The new hotness coming from Valve has had many users excited as to the possibility of finally hopping into competitive matchmaking servers and experiencing a fair fight against other players that simply enjoy the title. Top laughs were had,...
Valve previously released a beta that would allow players to peek at the upcoming anti-cheat phase that blocks applications from interacting with the base executable. It’s been a move that has, of course, drawn some lines in the sand,...
Esports are generally a bit topsy-turvy at the moment, as the ongoing pandemic has shifted matches to be played online which massively shifts how they operate; latency is a massive factor when most titles have historically been played in...
Valve’s Team Fortress 2 is in a bit of a weird spot for all sides of the equation; developers, fans, and players. The title originally released on October 10, 2007, on the famous Steam platform where it became a fantastically...
We noted that there were more than a few concerns for the upcoming ESL One Cologne, which was originally scheduled to be one of the first returns to professional Counter-Strike in a LAN environment. The primary concern that was...
We’ve heard it a thousand times in matches from fans, and it looks like they have a point: North American Counter-Strike is desperate for some new blood as highlighted in the Mountain Dew League finals, which Chaos easily took...
While the pandemic continues to rage on in all countries that aren’t New Zealand, that doesn’t mean that we don’t get treated to some delicious esport action. While many TOs have been taking to online matches to mitigate the...
It was an exciting time when Counter-Strike players heard that Valve was pushing out a controlled environment application that limits other applications interacting with the executable. Dreams and excitement of being able to play without running into two or three...
MIBR has been in the news within the professional Counter-Strike circles for the past few weeks with underhanded tactics, inciting violence against other players, using social media to pressure opponents for favorable decisions, and the inevitable complete lack of sportsmanship...
If you’ve played Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in the past year or two, chances are you’ve met with a cheater or three. If you queue into matchmaking daily, it’s nearly guaranteed that you’ve run across players flaunting their cheats as they...
It was a little strange to see Nicolai ‘device’ Reedtz giving the interviews for Astralis, offering a bit of an inside glimpse to the inner-workings of the fabled team. The interview was primarily a direct rebuttal against allegations that...
Bizarre that this is even coming out as a controversial view, but it helps shed light on the burn-out that players are experiencing within professional Counter-Strike that has led to multiple players stepping away from the esport temporarily to...
