New Counter-Strike Announced For PC and Consoles

It's official: Valve is developing a new Counter-Fall upon game in conjunction with Secret Path Entertainment, and you'll be able to trifle it next Fri at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. That's no surprise given that both developers are based in George Washington, but what should storm you is that Counter-Impinge on: Circular Offensive (Cesium:Try for short) is going to be available for download early next year on Steam, Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Web.

That's right, the classical Personal computer first-person shooter which defined a propagation of Microcomputer gamers and clay same of the most common multiplayer games connected the planet is coming to home consoles with new gameplay modes and weapons, as well as remastered versions of classic Counter-Strike maps ilk de_nuke and de_dust. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is intentional to look back and play differently than it's predecessors and thus is being developed from the prime up rather than iterating on Counter-Strike: Source code, though CS:GO does employ Valve's Source engine.

No screenshots Beaver State trailers have been released indeed information technology's difficult to guess how the biz will look, but we do take a offse-hand account of what it feels like to play the gritty from Craig "Torbull" Levine, united of numerous professional Counter-Strike players invited busy Valve headquarters last calendar week to play the a la mode build of Anticipate-Strike: Worldwide Offensive and give the developers some expert unfavorable judgment. Craig wrote up the inside information of his playtest terminated on the eSports Entertainment Association website, and it's clear from his conversation with the developers that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is targeted squarely at nonrecreational gamers and the eSports setting.

"It would be great if CS GO can be a rallying breaker point to usher the Counter-Expunge franchise spine to the global e-sports stage that has recently seen games like StarCraft 2 and League of Legends take all the limelight," wrote Levine. "I have my fair share of concerns about how what apparently seems to be a solace game built on the Source engine will port over to the PC."

With a broad revolve around competitive play it looks look-alike Valve is trying to make Counter-Strike a family identify among hardcore Federal Protective Service fans, many of whom abandoned Counter-Strike for console shooters equal Call of Tariff. Considering that the amazing success of the original Counter-Strike mod made realistic shooters favorite for competitive play (and thus contributed in part to the astounding success of competitive console shooters like Modern War) it seems almost born for Return-Strike: Globular Wicked to be available on your home console. Competitive shooters have come full band, just a handful of questions stay: what does Global Offensive look like, and how much will it cost? Will it support cross-platform playact between console and PC players? Abide attuned for more news about Counter-Strike: Spheric Offensive and a slew of past games when PAX kicks off next calendar week.

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