Counter-Strike 2 - and a playable beta - could be announced as soon as later this month
eurogamer.netGet set, Counter-Strike fans – it looks like a new version of CS:GO – possibly called Counter-Strike 2 – could be on the way.
As there's been no formal word from Valve, Steam, or anyone else for that matter, all we can do right now is chalk this up to either a mistake, a hoax, or a hilarious misunderstanding. If a recent NVIDIA leak is correct, however, and executable files called «cs2» and «csgo2» have indeed been discovered, a beta could launch as soon as later this month.
Alongside a curious tweet from noted Counter-Strike leaker @gabefollower, which unveiled the curious additions to the NVIDIA driver update, journalist Richard Lewis has also stepped up to confirm that «a new version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive [is] on its way» and reckons it is «almost certainly set to be released under the working title of Counter-Strike 2».
Lewis also posits that «the tentative release date for the beta is in this month of March with April 1st at the outside».
Something weird just happened. Latest NVIDIA drivers introduced support for unknown app executables called «csgos2.exe» and «cs2.exe». Why project is called Counter-Strike 2 and what are you cooking <a href=«https://twitter.com/CSGO?ref_src=» https:>@csgo
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Other sources say the cs2.exe found in the NVIDIA drive is «old and irrelevant», assures players «your skins are safe, no separate games are being made», and says a Source 2 game is «a real thing».
«I've got fairly reliable information that Valve has been testing CS:GO on Source 2 with the help of third-party QA companies in the US and EU since at least early December,» gabefollower added. «I can't confirm this 100 per cent, but it's decent enough to share.»
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