Classic Valve Game May Be Getting Upgraded to Source 2

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A new discovery has fans speculating that an iconic Valve game may be getting upgraded to its newer, more advanced Source 2 engine. While it remains to be seen if it would be a straight port or remaster, Valve fans are already excited at the possibility.

The vast majority of Valve's games, like Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike: GO, and Portal all use the Source engine. However, the company released a new version of the engine back in 2015, which has continued to see refinements with the release of Half-Life: Alyx. Source 2 better utilizes resources on PCs and has superior lighting to the original engine. DOTA 2 notably made the jump from classic Source to the Source 2 engine years ago, leading fans to wonder if Valve's other games would eventually receive the same treatment.

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Now, evidence from Nvidia has arisen that seems to indicate that the popular Counter-Strike: Global Offensive may be seeing a Source 2 release. Nvidia's drivers were recently updated, which occasionally means adding support for new and upcoming game releases. Eagle-eyed data miners discovered that among these new executables is «csgos2.exe,» which has been labeled as Counter-Strike 2 by the program. This may indicate one of two things — the 2 could mean that the game is moving to the Source 2 engine, which has been speculated about for years, or a sequel, Counter-Strike 2, could be one of Valve's unannounced games in development.

Of course, this is far from official confirmation from Valve itself. That said, the company has been notoriously tight-lipped about its projects ever since the fiasco of Half-Life 2's major leak back in 2003. Many gamers had given up on seeing anything new