Stalwart shooter is not going to be denied

Not content material with having crushed its personal concurrent participant file simply final month, Valve’s tactical shooter Counter-Strike: International Offensive (CS:GO) smashed its personal numbers out of the sky this previous weekend, with a staggering 1.4 million gamers concurrently logged in on Steam on Saturday, March 11.

As famous by Eurogamer, this unbelievable feat was achieved, partially, by a Twitter marketing campaign that noticed the group come collectively to highlight the stay ‘n’ kicking nature of the legendary launch, which is celebrating over a decade on the Steam platform. A peak participant depend of 1,470,183 was recorded on Saturday, beating out the earlier file of 1,308,963, recorded again in February. The official CS:GO crew took to Twitter to thank the group for displaying out.

Thanks to our 1.4M Twitter followers for organizing and taking part in CS:GO concurrently at present.

— CS:GO (@CSGO) March 11, 2023

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Another excuse that CS:GO is seeing a file resurgence in its (already wholesome) group is probably going because of the latest rumors that the close to 20-year-old shooter is probably about to obtain a serious improve, with whispers on the net suggesting {that a} Supply 2 version is at present getting ready to launch — And would possibly even be with us as quickly as the subsequent few months, even weeks. The replace, if it certainly exists, is anticipated to bolster CS:GO‘s connectivity, textures, visible help, and servers. It ought to be famous that developer Valve is but to verify {that a} CS:GO Supply 2 improve is incoming.

Nonetheless, with such superb numbers clearly nonetheless on deck, CS:GO has confirmed unquestionably that it has a group, more healthy and arguably extra devoted, than many more moderen and costlier shooter franchises. Very like Valve’s personal Staff Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: International Offensive is a title that seems set to simply run, and run, and run. Right here’s to the subsequent decade of twitchy, trigger-happy motion.

1.4m of us have been concurrently taking part in CS:GO this weekend [Eurogamer]