The Counter-Strike 2 community has been thrown into turmoil after a fateful update from Valve sent shockwaves through Steam’s marketplace, causing the value of skins (purchased with real money) to ...

The Counter-Strike 2 skin marketplace has thousands of listings for thousands of dollars, and Valve has tanked the market with a small update designed to make skins easier to get. The small update ...

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The Counter-Strike 2 community was sent into a tailspin when its in-game economy crashed, causing a loss of almost $2 billion of real-world money. Like many other live-service games, Counter-Strike 2 ...

Counter-Strike 2 has always stood apart from other shooters due to its skin market, which was essentially gambling on skins, trading skins, and collecting skins on a third-party marketplace. Some ...

The update, first noticed by the team at Eurogamer, made what seems like a small change. Now, Counter-Strike 2 players can trade five regular Covert skins for a new, rarer knife or glove cosmetic. On ...