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Counter-Strike Event At Crown Showed How Much Australians Like Yelling
7Despite the pauses and technical issues with the stream and GOTV, the crowd that gathered at Melbourne’s Crown Casino to witness a group of blokes shoot each other on screens — officially known as the Crown Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Invitational — had a romping good time. It was pretty evident watching the stream on Twitch,…
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It’ll Cost You 50% More To Have Your Mouse Look Like A Counter-Strike Skin
People have been joking for a while about the exorbitant nature of weapon skins for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. They can range in the tens of thousands when the market feels like it. But what’s more disturbing is when those skins start appearing in real-life — and products get bumped up by an exorbitant amount as…
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Professional Teams Form eSports Union, Make Excessive Demands
With numbers often comes power. That’s at least the logic behind the creation of the latest union featuring several of Europe’s most prominent and recognisable (but not all) professional gaming teams. But in a letter sent to eSports organisers, and since released to the public, the union has outlined some demands that seem a little…
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One Of Counter-Strike’s Biggest Names Has Landed In Court
Emil “HeatoN” Christensen was one of the first major eSports stars in North America and Europe, back in the glory days of the older Counter-Strike versions. But now the former professional gamer and former co-owner of Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP), the team with which he first made his name, has ended up in the spotlight…