Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
FURIA won PGL Masters Bucharest 2026 on Saturday 31 October, beating Nemiga Gaming 3-2 in the best-of-five grand final and taking $450,000 across PGL's priz...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Team Vitality won ESL Pro League Season 24, beating MOUZ 3-0 in the grand final at the Spodek Arena in Katowice on Sunday 11 October. The best-of-five went Cach...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Two weeks after Counter-Strike 2's crosshair overhaul, the tooling that reads old codes has split. csgo-sharecode, a long-running share-code library, shippe...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Counter-Strike 2 updated overnight, and Valve posted its Counter-Strike 2 Update notes at 00:54 UTC on 5 November 2026. The patch is aimed at Retakes: a defuse ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Rush, the 3v3 queued mode Valve added to Counter-Strike 2 in the Rush Hour update on 22 September 2026, has been patched twice since. Valve's announcement c...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Valve shipped a Counter-Strike 2 update late on 22 September 2026, announced under the banner Rush Hour. It adds Rush, a queued 3v3 mode played across randomly ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Team Vitality won StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026, beating Aurora Gaming 3-1 in the grand final in Barcelona on Sunday 20 September to take the $200,000 first p...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
As of 6 November, three S-Tier tournaments are left on the 2026 Counter-Strike 2 calendar, and the first of them is already being played: IEM Beijing 2026 (2–8 ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Valve has published its 2 November Regional Standings, replacing the projections behind the PGL Major Singapore 2026 invitation race with an official ranking sn...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Legacy have won FISSURE Playground 3, sweeping G2 Esports 3-0 in the grand final in Suzhou on Sunday 13 September. The Brazilian side took Ancient 13-9, Mirage ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
G2 Esports and MIBR won Friday's quarter-finals at FISSURE Playground 3 in Suzhou, both without dropping a map, and the event is down to four teams. The sem...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Valve shipped a Counter-Strike 2 update on 9 September 2026 that encrypts in-game chat inside demo files — the format a third-party tracker had been mining to p...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The MongolZ are out of FISSURE Playground 3. Mongolian rivals 5star eSports beat them 2-0 in the Group A lower-bracket quarter-final on 9 September, sending one...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Team Spirit won BLAST Open Porto 2026, beating MOUZ 3–1 in the CS2 grand final in Porto on Sunday 6 September to take the $250,000 top prize. Danil "donk&q...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Both BLAST Open Porto 2026 semi-finals were decided on Saturday 5 September. The grand final is set: Team Spirit vs MOUZ, starting at 15:00 WEST (14:00 UTC) on ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The 16-team field for FISSURE Playground #3 was completed on 3 September, when Mongolian side 5star eSports beat Chinggis Warriors 2–0 in the Asia Closed Qualif...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Counter-Strike 2 averaged 797,324 concurrent players on Steam in October 2026, Steam Charts' close for the month shows. That is 1.03% below September and th...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer has been moved to Ninjas in Pyjamas' inactive roster, ending a 19-month run as the organisation's in-game leader. The ...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
HLTV published its weekly Counter-Strike world ranking on 31 August 2026, and the top nine did not move a single place. The only change inside the top 10 is Aur...
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Games Writer
The BLAST Open Porto 2026 group stage closed in Copenhagen on 31 August, and the six teams flying to Portugal are locked. Spirit and MOUZ won their groups and s...