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Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source are both less played and less competitive, and would probably not be as responsive to being pushed towards eSports than CS:GO, so why they’re letting one of their biggest money makers just sit there is a weird thing to me. Then again, I don’t think Valve has thought about Day of Defeat: Source since 2006.This makes them viable targets to begin with. But now, games such as CounterStrike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) have grown into an actual business. They offer various ‘skins’ for weapons within the game that are purely aesthetic but nonetheless desired. There are hundreds of variations, and Valve adds a minimum of twenty of them every other month.Valve delayed the CS:GO beta, which was due to launch in October, because of feedback given by professional Counter-Strike 1.6 players.As one of the first games to demand modern internet speeds, SOCOM introduced a lot of staples of online gaming. Matchmaking and lobbies were new concepts at the time. In 2002, though, PlayStation 2 consoles didn’t have a way to support online communities. Websites sprang up to organize tournaments and connect people, and a competitive scene grew around these third-person action games. These sites didn’t have a way to talk directly to players’ consoles, so players had to sign on and report the results from any organized match manually. After SOCOM 2 in 2003, the series changed direction. The small squads and special forces missions were replaced in 2005 with vehicle combat and other changes that turned away the hardcore group as SOCOM sought the broader appeal enjoyed by games like Battlefield. The community that had formed around the games eventually evaporated. Millions of copies of the game were sold on PS2 and PS3, but servers running the online game modes were finally taken offline in 2012. No SOCOM game has been announced since 2011’s SOCOM 4, which lost its servers in January 2014. As far as anyone knows, the SOCOM series is dead.Enemy fought back convincingly in game two, particularly jungler Adjust on Serqet—where Epsilon had a good hold on the map in the first game, here repeated pickoffs prevented them from mustering the same control. However not everything went Enemy’s way: Epsilon solo laner Dimi, who has been struggling with flu throughout the later stages of the tournament, went on an absolute tear as Tyr, soloing Saltmachine’s Bellona and acting as his team's unstoppable frontline in crucial later engagements. Along with a brilliant performance by Epsilon midlaner Yammyn as Isis, he was instrumental in turning a late teamfight that tipped a losing game in Epsilon’s favour. Enemy once again came out ahead in game three, but Adapting once again had Thor—and, once again, Enemy couldn’t quite win the battle of the junglers. Enemy's Adjust fell behind on Hun Batz (the same character he fell behind with in game one) while Adapting played an even better game than he had previously. Epsilon captain iRaffer proved that Geb shields win Smite championships, and a great late kill on Adjust by Yammyn’s Medusa tipped another close game Epsilon’s way. As Enemy fought for their lives, Adapting landed the Thor dunk to end all Thor dunks—and, in this case, to end Worlds. With Enemy wiped off the map, Epsilon stormed through the Phoenix and right onto the Titan, ending the tournament and earning $500,000.I love the husband/wife dynamic here. While both of them are gamers, she's obviously nowhere near as excited about the roll as he is. This is what my wife looks like every time a new Hatsune Miku game comes to the States, complete with kid-considerate sushing.Valve oddly makes betting incredibly easy in the game itself. One can buy cases that have randomly won weapons upon opening, which the keys to open also cost money. Those weapon skins can be easily transferred to third-party pools, or websites, to be either sold or put into a ‘pot’ to be won by betting on different professional and semi-professional CSGO matches. There is a wide variety of websites that offer ways to use your weapon skins as collateral, and currency, to gamble and place bets.

“I think that they handled everything in a strange way, because another team got banned for the same thing as us—Epsilon, a team from France…and theirs was a year ban,” said Larivière.

My next dealer admits that he perhaps goes a little overboard with his CS:GO trading. When you buy a "key" to open a weapons case in Global Offensive, you're presented with a spinning gambling dial, which flicks around until it eventually lands on your winning weapon.Since then, his CS:GO trading has involved finding expensive weapons in cases, trading them for more and more expensive weapons with other users, and then plugging all that money back into more cases.Despite the obvious degradation of the reddit thread, the initial information is supposedly good, and the picture is indeed the rule itself. Kotaku has also verified the information through Faceit as well, and they liken this radical policy to that of “… the eSports equivalent of random drug testing for things like steroids.”“My take on it is that key developers are targeting the common ground, but that extra graphics power on PS4 is always going to be helpful to developers and tends to outweigh Xbox One’s particular strengths.”As for Wii U, its three-core PowerPC-based CPU and 550 Mhz AMD Radeon GPU are much less powerful than the PS4 and Xbox One set-ups – but then Nintendo never competes on raw system performance. Instead, the key feature of this machine is its unique GamePad controller, which features its own touch display. The console also supports the standard Wii Remote and Nunchuk devices from the Wii days.Oddly, just as in gambling at a casino, the skins are akin to casino tokens, which are indirect representations of real money and are indeed a part of the regulations surrounding gambling and casinos. So perhaps even this indirect betting could be considered actually illegal if brought to the attention of Law Enforcement or the Department of Justice.Many CS: GO players are addicted to collecting and trading skins, making it an attraction that gets full-time attention from websites that specialize in trading and even gambling. It's all based on a system where cases are earned randomly during play, and must be opened using keys that cost $2.49. The price doesn't sound like much, but Valve's made sure to build the odds so that players typically spend dozens if not hundreds of dollars before they ever earn something deemed valuable.

Through many weeks of hunting, I managed to track down a trader who, somewhat appropriately, goes by the name of DonSelf. The Don was one of the first and most prominent gunrunners of Global Offensive, and a well-known name among past and current traders."ESL One Cologne followed in the footsteps of ESL One Frankfurt in that it transformed a mere esports event into an esports festival," ESL said in a statement. "Visitors on-site were able to take part in many festival-like experiences including bullriding, testing their reflexes on a T-Wall, and getting an airbrush tattoo, brought to them by ESL’s sponsors/partners."Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is an ultra-competitive first-person shooter, but who said it couldn't be a clothing line too? One fashion label has decided it can be and, in partnership with Valve, is taking votes on the best designs. As the image above suggests, if all goes to plan you'll soon be able to wear jackets brandished with your favourite weapon skin.

Given that these items are so easily converted into real money, is the Esports industry supporting a wide-scale illegal gambling operation? Many of the major events companies advertise such websites by playing their video adverts on their streams. There are teams who are named after such websites, some of whom even play at Valve-sponsored events. The majority of players have personal sponsorships with such websites whereby their in-game weapons are named after betting websites (which has become so prevalent that at the recent CS:GO major event, the company hosting the event, Dreamhack, blanked out the space on their broadcast overlay where the gun names are displayed). Given the recent DFS scrutiny and the ever increasing media coverage of Esports, the industry may want to consider making steps to avoid a scandal waiting to happen.hat is perhaps more disturbing, is if such items are deemed to have a monetary value, is that a regulator may question whether Valve are complicit. Such websites rely on the availability of Valve’s API and “bots” in order to support their transactions and this access could be revoked by Valve at any moment. Given that this form of betting increases sale volumes of their in-game items and viewership of their game, there is currently little incentive for Valve to effectively shut these websites down.He's in jail now—for stealing credit card data, not cheating. "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive", the fourth game created for the Counter-Strike series, was initially released in August 12, 2012 for PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Xbox 360, and Mac OS. Up to now it continues to be one of the big titles in competitive e-sports where professional e-sports players earn big money from tournaments and game events.Back in school I played an insane amount of Counter Strike: Source, the predecessor to the gaming industries new big player, Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO).

ESL One Cologne is also interesting this year because, for the first time ever, ESL will conduct randomized drug testing during the competition. The move comes in response to a claim by former Cloud9 player Kory "Semphis" Friesen that he and his teammates were on Adderall at ESL One Katowice.Here’s something I never even thought of until today: Dota 2 is a huge eSport. The International is one of the biggest annual events in gaming, and this year had a prize pool of over $18 million. It’s by far the most played game on Steam, and its players clock millions, if not billions, of hours into it each month. Dota 2 is insanely big.There's no immediate judgment or verification that you caught a hacker; users that receive enough reports, to my understanding, are simply passed along to CS:GO's Overwatch system, where a player (who's recorded at least 150 wins in competitive mode) watches excerpts of the match and makes a judgment. Reporting a hacker is like calling a 911 line that cannot talk back to you. It's an unsatisfying system even when it works, and I'm upset knowing that CS:GO's sale will invite more abusers into the system. Since then, Valve and developer Hidden Path Entertainment have released a variety of updates for the PC and Mac versions of the title, fixing issues, adding features, and making plenty of changes.The recent update to Counter Strike: Global Defensive added a holiday motif to all the levels, and it also added a new weapon. The R8 Revolver was added as an option to replace the Desert Eagle, but the problem was that it was far too OP for anyone’s good.

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