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Counter-Strike 2

For the first time, the arrival of a new generation of heralds the death of what came before. With this latest incarnation released as a mandatory update for the wildly successful the beloved prior entry has been rendered all but inaccessible on PC. As release strategies go, it’s a bold gambit that would represent an astonishing act of hubris on the part of almost any other developer. After all, if one lesson should have been learned from Blizzard’s recent attempt to revitalise interest in with it’s that mandating major changes to a long-established formula risks not

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