Counter-Strike skin sells for $400K, probably the most expensive gun in videogame history

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The surprise announcement of Counter-Strike 2(opens in new tab), currently in a limited beta and due to launch this summer, came with one very important piece of news for existing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players. All of the weapon skins from CS:GO will be carrying over to the new game. CS:GO's skins market has always been a fascinating side element of the game's success, and rare skins going for silly money has been happening for a long time now, but this element of the CS2 announcement saw even fairly unremarkable skins begin to spike in value(opens in new tab).

Now, an AK-47 skin has become the most expensive gun in CS:GO and probably videogame history (thanks Dexerto(opens in new tab)). The skin is a minimal wear StatTrak Tier 1 Case Hardened AK-47 with a Blue Gem pattern, the latter of which is pattern 661 which, apparently, is the blue-est Blue Gem one can get. In addition to this, the gun has four Katowice 2014 Titan Holo stickers applied to it, which are each valued at around $60,000(opens in new tab).

Minimal wear means the gun is actually the second-best condition it could be in: A factory new variant of this item does not currently exist but in theory could one day be unboxed. Oh, and the kicker: This is the most expensive individual gun, but the most-desired and valuable skin in CS:GO skin remains the Blue Gem Karambit knife in the below video, which last year was allegedly the subject of a $1.5 million bid (which the owner turned down). It's not even the biggest single CS:GO transaction, which would be this (unconfirmed) sale(opens in new tab) of an AK-47 case hardened and a Souvenir AWP Dragon Lore for $775K (which if legit would conveniently value each gun at just under $400K).

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