CS2 Season 5 map pool is live today, July 6, 2026, with Cache replacing Overpass in Counter-Strike 2’s Active Duty rotation.

Case openings are simple on the surface but there is more going on underneath than most players realize. With thousands of ...

AI makes it much easier to build bots, dashboards, and automations for CS2 skins. The hard part is not always the code. The hard part is getting clean, current, structured market data. A CS2 skins API ...

The polish gap was impossible to ignore ...

The Godot Foundation have announced a crackdown on genAI code, including mandatory disclosures, following a wave of ...

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I opened my first Counter-Strike case in 2017, got something worth about forty cents, and closed the client thinking I understood it. I did not. What I had actually stumbled into was a hobby with its ...

The CS2 community is in a real mess right now — Premier mode has gone offline and has not shown signs of life for more than 24 hours. The situation is, in fact, unprecedented, because previously the ...

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

Valve is working on an upcoming AI feature for Steam, aptly named SteamGPT, to help with Steam Support and Counter-Strike 2 anti-cheat. Steam’s been making some changes recently, updating its UI and ...

There was a time when cases in Counter-Strike were part of the game’s overall rhythm. They existed alongside matches, highlights, trades, and conversations about rare drops. For many players, this was ...