GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. A new, fan-made map for Valve’s free shooter Counter-Strike 2 has a ...

Valve has rolled out one of the most sweeping Counter-Strike 2 updates yet, featuring a full overhaul of first-person animations and significant tweaks to three staple maps: Inferno, Overpass, and ...

The focus is on the introduction of weekly missions and five new community maps, of which Jura and Grail deserve special mention. Both maps originate from the renowned FACEIT x Mapcore "Big Adventures ...

Shane Limbaugh is a Contributor at DualShockers who began covering games professionally in 2025. A longtime gamer with a Bachelor’s Degree in Game Design and Criticism, Shane brings a design-focused ...

Modern map apps do much more than get you from point A to point B, with everything from traffic light locations to AI-powered route planning. I tested Google Maps and Apple Maps to find the better ...

A new era of Counter-Strike is here. While CS2's maps, features, and mechanics will be familiar to CS:GO players, the game has been overhauled to its very bones. With new environmental lighting, map ...

The four main points on a compass are: north, east, south and west. A compass is used to work out direction. A four-point compass can give a rough direction whereas a sixteen-point compass is much ...

Maps can be drawings or models. They can help you find where you are and where you are going. They show symbols (pictures) for places such as car parks or places of worship like churches. They also ...

Cache was removed from Active Duty in March 2019 to undergo a full rework, and the pro circuit spent the intervening years without it as a veteable map. Valve reintroduced the reworked version to CS2 ...

ESL has updated the map pool across all ESL Pro Tour competitions. The change reflects Valve’s recent decision to remove Overpass from the Active Duty rotation and add Cache in its place. The update ...

It’s a surprisingly big patch! Valve unrolls one more change to a core mechanic in Counter-Strike 2 (CS2), pretty soon after they adjusted reload. Following the traditional cycle of post-Major updates ...

In Counter-Strike 2, every automatic weapon kicks in a predictable pattern the moment you hold down the trigger. The first ...