Monday, August 15th 2011
Valve Announces Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO)
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO).
Targeted for release via Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and Steam (for PC and Mac) in early 2012, CS: GO will expand upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched exactly 12 years ago (CS beta 1, August 1999).
CS: GO features new maps, characters, and weapons and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust, etc.). In addition, CS: GO will introduce new gameplay modes, matchmaking, leader boards, and more.
"Counter-Strike took the gaming industry by surprise when the unlikely MOD became the most played online PC action game in the world almost immediately after its release in August 1999," said Doug Lombard, VP of Marketing at Valve. "For the past 12 years, it has continued to be one of the most-played games in the world, headline competitive gaming tournaments and selling over 25 million units worldwide across the franchise. CS: GO promises to expand on CS' award-winning gameplay and deliver it to gamers on the PC as well as the next gen consoles and the Mac."
CS: GO is being developed by Valve in cooperation with Seattle-based Hidden Path Entertainment. The title is targeted for release in early 2012 and will be playable at this year's PAX Prime and London Games Festival.
For more information, please visit the Steam Store Page.
Targeted for release via Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and Steam (for PC and Mac) in early 2012, CS: GO will expand upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched exactly 12 years ago (CS beta 1, August 1999).
"Counter-Strike took the gaming industry by surprise when the unlikely MOD became the most played online PC action game in the world almost immediately after its release in August 1999," said Doug Lombard, VP of Marketing at Valve. "For the past 12 years, it has continued to be one of the most-played games in the world, headline competitive gaming tournaments and selling over 25 million units worldwide across the franchise. CS: GO promises to expand on CS' award-winning gameplay and deliver it to gamers on the PC as well as the next gen consoles and the Mac."
CS: GO is being developed by Valve in cooperation with Seattle-based Hidden Path Entertainment. The title is targeted for release in early 2012 and will be playable at this year's PAX Prime and London Games Festival.
For more information, please visit the Steam Store Page.
36 Comments on Valve Announces Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO)
The guys behind CS:GO are Hidden Path Entertainment. For those not knowing who the hell they are, they made the excellent Defense Grid game, that set whole new standards to the tower defense games. I hope they'll do just as good with CS:Go as they did with Defense Grid.
Now i also know why nothing new has been released for Defense Grid. They are busy with the CS:GO. Makes sense.
I really want this to do well, but in my recent experience, games designed for consoles as well as pc's are usually disappointing in one way or another. Here's hoping though :)
hope the game still work realistic like the old ones and comes with new features, level and gameplay
its good to memorizing old times, playing again CS with my old friend from nearly 10 years ago :)
Notice how CS:Source is basically unmentioned there, while bringing up the original Counter-Strike's headlining of gaming tournaments. I get the feeling they're definitely trying to tap back into what made the original so popular.
kotaku.com/5830426/real-details-on-the-new-counter+strike-from-pros-whove-played-it
Anyone...
no...
Just me then.
If this is the case then just like what my friend said "The line that differentiate Counter Strike and Call of Duty games is starting to fade"
Counter Strike is the game that really made me love the FPS genre and it became my favorite genre. Still, after playing CS for 4 years straight with a total of 8 years of gameplay, I simple got bored of it, in my region, Counter Strike is the only thing that's preventing the spread of the professional "gaming" lifestyle, along with CoD of course, because almost 85% of people are addicted on these two games and they simply refuse to try different games.
I bet my left ball that it will have some microtransactions going on in here like gun/player aesthetics.
Thanks a bunch...:rockout: