Valve Has Trademarked The Word CS2

gameranx.com:

Valve has filed new trademarks, that seem to link with earlier rumors about Counter-Strike.

As reported by PCGamesN, the trademark filing is for the word CS2.

Here’s the full text of the trademark filing:

“trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of entertainment services, namely, providing online video games; provision of on-line entertainment, namely, on-line computer games; providing on-line computer games and on-line video games; electronic games services provided by means of the Internet; providing information in the fields of computer games and entertainment via the Internet; organization of competitions relating to video games, video game education, and video game entertainment; providing information in the field of on-line computer games and on-line video games and computer games.”

As described here, Valve seems to be covering all bases so that any mention of CS2 would undisputably be about their property, and more likely be about Counter-Strike 2.

Now, this may seem confusing but Valve never actually released a Counter-Strike 2 before now. What you may be thinking of is actually Counter-Strike: Online 2, a game that used the Source engine, but was built from the ground up by Korean developer Nexon so that it could enter the Korean game market. You probably never even played this game, definitely not if you have never been to Korea.

Taking the Korean games out of the equation, the timeline of Counter-Strike games is like so:

Before this, dataminers had noticed that Valve was adding the words cs2 to the code that is in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Before that, strangely enough, dataminers found cs2 mentions in the code to DOTA 2.

But it must be said, even before the dataminers found their