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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.
This is the sales charts subsection of WikiProject Video games' Reference library. Since the 1980s, many market research firms around the world (such as the NPD Group) have tracked and published data regarding the sales of video games. This page archives and organizes the charts released by such firms, to give Wikipedians easy access to ...
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.
Valve's first game was Half-Life, a first-person shooter released in 1998. [2] It sold over nine million retail copies. [3] [4] Alongside Half-Life ' s launch, Valve released development tools to enable the player community to create content and mods. [5] The company then proceeded to hire the creators of popular mods such as Counter-Strike. [1]
Notable games include Natural Selection, Cry of Fear and Sven Co-op, with Valve's Team Fortress Classic, Counter-Strike, and Day of Defeat all being based on GoldSrc mods of the same names. Sven Co-op have since been released for free as a standalone game on Steam, which use a licensed derivative of the engine with their own customizations.
The Counter-Strike series has over 20 years of competitive history beginning with the original Counter-Strike.Tournaments for early versions of the game have been hosted since 2000, but the first prestigious international tournament was hosted in Dallas, Texas at the 2001 Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Winter Championship, won by the Swedish team Ninjas in Pyjamas.
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