Five years ago, a group of friends who played Counter-Strike: Global Offensive together had a simple question: “How can we make getting skins more fun and transparent for players?” The answer was to ...

Luke Dammann is a writer from the United States of America. Playing video games since before he can remember, writing about the next Halo or Call of Duty title comes naturally to Luke, who is always ...

The Counter-Strike 2 community has been thrown into turmoil after a fateful update from Valve sent shockwaves through Steam’s marketplace, causing the value of skins (purchased with real money) to ...

A skin for Counter-Strike’s ever-popular AK-47 just became the most expensive skin ever sold publicly for the game. This isn’t the first time a skin from Valve’s iconic tactical shooter has gone for a ...

A Counter-Strike 2 weapon skin, meaning a variant color and pattern for an in-game gun, has sold for more than $1 million of real world money. CS:GO, now Counter-Strike 2, lets players earn Weapon ...

The Counter-Strike 2 skin marketplace has thousands of listings for thousands of dollars, and Valve has tanked the market with a small update designed to make skins easier to get. The small update ...

CS2 skins are more than digital paint jobs—rare drops, esports history, and obsession make them status symbols. AWP Medusa, AK-47 Wild Lotus, SSG 08 Detour—iconic skins with mythological, ...

Counter-Strike 2 has always stood apart from other shooters due to its skin market, which was essentially gambling on skins, trading skins, and collecting skins on a third-party marketplace. Some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. Valve released a new patch for Counter-Strike 2 overnight ...

The Counter-Strike 2 community was sent into a tailspin when its in-game economy crashed, causing a loss of almost $2 billion of real-world money. Like many other live-service games, Counter-Strike 2 ...