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Counter-Strike (also known as Half-Life: Counter-Strike or Counter-Strike 1.6) [5] is a tactical first-person shooter game developed by Valve.It was initially developed and released as a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess Cliffe in 1999, before Le and Cliffe were hired and the game's intellectual property acquired.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was the fourth release in the main, Valve-developed Counter-Strike series in 2012. Much like Counter-Strike: Source the game runs on the Source engine. It was available for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux, as well as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, and is backwards compatible on the Xbox One console.
[4] [7] In the late 2000s, Valve released two zombie-themed first-person shooters focusing on cooperative gameplay with the Left 4 Dead series. The company continued to release multiplayer games with the launches of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, [6] both of which have large esports communities fostered by Valve. [8]
Half-Life: Counter-Strike sold 4.2 million units standalone by the same time, while its remake, Counter-Strike: Source was bundled with every sold retail copy of Half-Life 2. [48] Forbes reported that, including digital sales, Half-Life 2 had sold over 12 million copies by February 2011.
Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies was released via Steam on October 7, 2014. [6] This is the first adaptation of Counter-Strike Online to be published via Valve's Steam content delivery system. [ 7 ] Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies was renamed to Counter-Strike Nexon: Studio in 2019.
It made its debut in 1998 with Half-Life and powered future games developed by or with oversight from Valve, including Half-Life 's expansions, Day of Defeat and games in the Counter-Strike series. GoldSrc was succeeded by the Source engine with the releases of Half-Life: Source, Half-Life 2, and Counter-Strike: Source in 2004.
The final significant update to the original Counter-Strike game was version 1.6 in 2003, and so the game became known as Counter-Strike 1.6 (CS 1.6). 2001 Winter CPL Counter-Strike tournament. In 2002, the World Cyber Games became the next tournament to host competitive Counter-Strike, followed by the Electronic Sports World Cup in 2003.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is a 2012 multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series . Developed for over two years, Global Offensive was released for OS X , PlayStation 3 , Windows , and Xbox 360 in August 2012, and for Linux in 2014.