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After some spooky celebrations for Halloween at the end of last month, Valve is now rolling out a fresh update that brings forth a new operation, not to mention plenty of other goodies.Steam’s owner, Valve, has taken its time entering the hardware scene. It’s been two years since SteamOS was announced, and almost as long since we got a first glimpse of the Steam Controller. And we’ve yet to see any living-room boxes on shelves.CS: GO wouldn't experience a very successful launch. Priced at $14.99 it sold more than a million units within one week, but wasn't able to retain a high activity average among its playerbase. Within a couple months most players would transition to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Halo 4, or even return to CS 1.6 or Battlefield 3 for their shooter fix, resulting in a sub-50,000 concurrent player count for what Valve hoped would be its premier FPS for the next decade.Read more at http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/how-microtransactions-propelled-counterstrike-global-offensive-to-stardom#lC77R22YgVcLuYlI.99 The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team just published a blog update detailing how future sets of beta keys for the game will be sent out. Key recipients will be selected from a pool of people that've completed a survey. The survey is a simple template intended to judge your CS savviness, combined with an automated peek at your hardware. Copy this into a Windows Explorer address bar to open Steam and start the survey: steam://takesurvey/2/ Auf der rechten Seite seht ihr ein Menü mit verschiedenen anderen nützlichen Features. Hier k?nnt ihr z.B:I think the apocalyptic predictions are a little off-base, but they're right in saying that TF2's drop from relevance can be partially linked to this problem, and that Dota 2's market has crashed significantly. I believe the pro scene could sustain itself without high-value betting via skins, but it would be a loss of revenue from one angle that would need to be replaced, and could stunt growth. Major sponsors aren't concerned with this sort of thing, but a large number of smaller ones are.Slayer didn't want to talk at first. “I don't think any good for Ultra Cheats would come from this,” he said. I promised him I wouldn't use any real handles or even the site's real name, and that I wanted him to respond to quotes from developers like Gibson. I suspect the notion that he'd get a reaction from a game developer is what got him on board.

Shortly afterwards the Electronic Sports League, one of the main tournament organizers, said it would create a formal drug policy with help from Germany’s anti-doping agency. It conducted its first doping tests at a tournament in Cologne in August, and said in a statement the random screening “returned negative results for all tested players.” A spokeswoman declined to disclose how many tests were conducted, and for which substances.Though eSports organizers are beginning to grapple with drug use, gambling presents a new set of challenges. Betting on competitions is growing rapidly on mainstream sites; U.K. bookmaker William Hill has taken 14,000 bets on games so far this year, spokesman Joe Crilly said, of about ￡250,000 ($395,000) in total. Four times that much will likely be bet over the next year, he said.Update: Literally seconds after we published this story, the Game Stats page updated to indicate that Fallout 4 had in fact slipped past CS:GO to claim the top spot. It's still a long way off the peak numbers, but right here and right now, it's number one.No good deed goes unpunished. Earlier this week, Valve took measures to protect Steam users from being hacked, but scammers are already using these new protections to lure gullible players into new traps.

The AWP’s firerate is equally slow, placing huge importance on hitting your first shot. The Scout, the AWP’s cheaper sibling, features a similarly slow firerate but allows for insanely high mobility, even when scoped-in (unlike the AWP). And like many of CS:GO’s guns, the AWP is sensitive to movement, requiring near-perfect stillness to execute an accurate shot (see the Advanced Techniques section for more on this). AWPers are thus faced with the dilemma of holding static angles that easily fall prey to flashbangs and pincer-pushes onto bombsites.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.Now that Dreamhack Cluj-Napoca, which didn’t yield favourable numbers compared to Cologne or Katowice, is finally done can we expect a bigger year for CS:GO in 2016, or has is it begun to fall? There are many factors to consider when determining whether CS:GO is starting to dip, and perhaps using this past major’s results may not be the best comparison. But after scouring the internet one thing became clear… people are skeptical.Valve's ongoing investigation into pro-level Counter-Strike: Global Offensive match fixing has resulted in the suspension of another 19 players from its sponsored events. The ban means that three teams—Epsilon eSports, the former ESC Gaming, and WinneR—will not be eligible to compete in the offline qualifier for the upcoming ESL One Katowice 2015.To get further clarity on the ESL’s perspective on this issue I spoke with Michal Blicharz, Managing Director Pro Gaming at ESL.The ESL One Cologne Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament that wrapped up this weekend with an exciting win for Fnatic was the first event in which competitors were subject to randomized drug testing. And you'll never guess who was caught trying to cheat! Really, you won't, because I'm about to tell you: The answer is nobody.

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.CS:GO is a pay-to-win game: buying power equals firepower. When you steal a weapon from a dead enemy, you're fighting on their tab. Given the choice between fighting on the wrong side of a three-on-one with no armor and cowering in a corner with a nicked AWP, save the AWP . You're probably going to lose more eco rounds than you win, so be willing to take a small gain out of a bad situation.Fortunately, game development is a little bit different these days than it was when CS debuted in 1999. Post-launch support is now an integral part of any multiplayer game release, and Valve has gone further in actively supporting and listening to the competitive CS:GO community than they ever have for previous CS games, and they’ve turned CS:GO from a mediocre iteration into the definitive competitive version of Counter-Strike.The results in this change of heart from Valve have been hugely positive. Almost exactly one year ago, Dreamhack Winter 2013 hosted the largest CS tournament in the 14-year history of the game, with a prize pool of $250,000. History was made, and since then, three more tournaments of the same size have taken place, all with a Valve-sponsored prize pool and a new game feature that allows the tournament matches to be watched from inside the game client.The Strafe RGB is a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Brown RGB, MX Red RGB, or MX Silent Red RGB switches, including a full 16.8 million colors available for lighting customization. Other than the option to set macros, the Strafe RGB is still a normal keyboard -- nothing too crazy about it, but that fits the Strafe’s market. The primary obstacle to the Strafe – which is the case with many PC components and high-end keyboards – is the price tag: $150, in this case.Hundreds of game developers, publishers and analysts recently descended on Brighton for the annual Develop conference. There were controversial keynotes, there were talks about how to make money in a rapidly fragmenting marketplace, but there were also some interesting forward-looking sessions, concerned with where the games industry as a whole is heading – not so much in terms of game design (that’s the domain of events like the Game Developers Conference and SXSW), more in the way the sector will operate as a business. Some of it is pretty weird.

It's that time of the year when popular PC game digital distribution platform Steam has its much awaited winter sale. In earlier years the community would vote on which games got discounts, and it also had quirky metagames that would let you flesh out your Steam card collection. Without those shenanigans, this year has been a relatively quiet affair (unless of course, you're a Steam Sale Detective). But apart from that, this year the Steam winter sale doesn't have the best Steam deals either.On top of this, Xbox One allows you to plug in your cable or satellite box so you can watch through your console. It also has a digital TV tuner for ￡25 which offers access to free digital channels, a decent electronic programme guide (EPG) and the ability to “snap” a TV window next to your gaming window, so you can watch Downton Abbey while blasting mutants in Sunset Overdrive.As more developers consider real-money transactions and user-driven marketplaces, virtual "gunrunners" have already been cutting deals inside and outside Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's official channels. Gamasutra's Mike Rose reports.Operation Wildfire l?uft übrigens bis zum 17. Juni 2016. Bis zu diesem Tag sind die sieben Community Maps auf den offiziellen Servern von Valve spielbar sowie die Mission erfüllbar.In einem eigenen Guide zum Thema Wallbanging hat Valve das Remake von Nuke im Juli 2014 erstmals angeteasert. Das Remake hat sich laut Aussage von Jess Cliffe seither stark ver?ndert. Die neue Version von Nuke ist wahrscheinlich die optisch beste Map in CS:GO. Das alte, graue Aussehen ist einem modernen Look gewichen, bei dem Valve nicht mit Details gegeizt hat.

The update's announcement post will let you compare the old textures to new ones, if you like, as well as that sidebar notification of 10,452,064 unique players last month. Obviously a lot of this comes out of yet another Steam sale, where folks who aren't sure if they'd be into Global Offensive pick it up for a fiver and give it a go. Still: that's a lot of people conducting sickening headshots on one-another, and not a mile behind Dota 2's 11,938,602 monthly players.A poster on Reddit also produced these mockups of how pro teams could use the new glove skins to create cosmetics in their style. No surprise would be had if this was the main aim of the update from Valve's point of view. The Na'vi ones look particularly sweet, and I've always thought the gun skins weren't really enough - for me, they look rather ugly a massive amount of the time, logos stamped on with no real thought or pattern.Glitches like this can be fixed easily enough, one would hope, but body parts clipping through walls is a more intractable problem. On the defending side Siege is very much about camping, but if you're next to certain walls bits of your anatomy or gun can clip through them. This happens especially when prone, because the player's perspective is disconnected from the character model in the sense the latter can occupy impossible positions so the former can take realistic sightlines. This is not an easily solvable problem because, basically, it's a trade-off the developers have made. But one has to question the wisdom of that deal in a game where positioning is king.If I ever meet Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, the first thing I will say is "give up on uPlay." One has to respect that any publisher Ubisoft's size wants to have its own distribution platform and "social network," but not at the point where it is actively making that same company's games worse for the player. Siege uses uPlay to handle team invites, and it only just manages. Sometimes the invites don't go through, or it drops players between screens. This is a pain when you just want efficiency.While the industry standard is the Cherry MX switch, we’ve also chosen a selection of keyboards with in-house or commissioned keys. This has become a popular trend as of late, as each brand looks to distinguish its keyboards with a specific feel and sound.

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