The original Counter-Strike mod is 25 years old, Valve calls it 'the greatest videogame ever made'
The official Counter-Strike account has posted to celebrate 25 years since the release of the mod that changed the competitive FPS forever.
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How to watch Summer Game Fest 2024 and what we know will be there
Good ol' Geoff Keighley is back with another festival of games in LA—a sort of expo of electronic entertainment, if you will—and 2024's Summer Game Fest livestream airs on Friday, June 7 at 2 pm Pacific (that's 10 pm in the UK).
You can play this PS2 classic with multiplayer thanks to this mod
Those looking to check out PlayStation 2 classic Jak and Daxter on PC with multiplayer (we know there are a few of you) have some good news thanks to a new community-created mod that was released Wednesday.
You’ll finally be able to play Half-Life: Alyx on PlayStation VR2 this summer
Sony has finally unveiled its PC adapter for PlayStation VR2, which will be released this August and finally enable players to try games like Half-Life: Alyx with the headset.
The best FPS games
There are countless genres of video game genres to get lost in — but one of the most popular is the first-person shooter (FPS). Spanning decades of unforgettable hits, the FPS genre is home to beloved classics that have sent us to space, to creepy houses in the bayou, mysterious underwater cities, and even head-to-head against other skilled players online. It’s a genre that is so much more than just shooting your foes.
'I'm not a big fan of survival games,' says director of 2024's best survival game
My last few weeks with Abiotic Factor have been a cure for survival crafting burnout. I thought I'd never want to look at another crafting bench again, but it turns out, all I really needed was a genuinely fresh perspective on survival crafting to get on board. What first drew me in was Abiotic's setting, a post-disaster underground lab inspired by Half-Life's Black Mesa facility.
Deadlock is a new hero shooter developed by Valve, according to leaks
Valve might be more known for its Steam Deck handheld and its video game retail platform Steam these days, but according to leaks, the company is working on its next game — a third-person, hero-based shooter known as Deadlock.
Valve's next game rumored to be a 6v6 hero shooter called Deadlock
Valve might have sprung a leak. A handful of screenshots supposedly from Valve's next big game, allegedly a competitive shooter called Deadlock, appeared on 4Chan and Twitter yesterday. The word from multiple dedicated Valve sleuths on Twitter is that Deadlock is a 6v6 third-person shooter that takes inspiration from Overwatch, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2.