Game News Eleven years after its release, this very popular game breaks a new record
GTA V is not the only game to achieve feats 10 years after its launch! Yes, another very popular game over 10 years old breaks a new record.
Summary
- Counter-Strike, the king of FPS is back
- A new record 11 years later
Counter-Strike, the king of FPS is back
It was eleven years ago now that a certain Counter-Strike: Global Offensive came to enter Steam. And if Valve’s game quickly established itself as one of the best competitive FPS in the video game industry and as a must-have on the eSports scene, we had no idea that it was going to break its own record eleven years after its release. launch.
Indeed, despite the many competitors it has seen born, we think of Overwatch, but also of Valorant or even Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has once again shown that it is the king. of the kind.
A new record 11 years later
It was during the IEM competition in Katowice that Valve’s FPS once again demonstrated that it has a bright future ahead of it. While the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 community seems to be shrinking visibly – although the game is only a few months old – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has seen its popularity increase over time.
It is thanks to the statistics shared by SteamDB, that we learn that Over 1,320,000 players logged into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive simultaneously this weekend. A surprising result, to say the least, which smashes the previous record obtained during the COVID-19 period. As a reminder, during the pandemic, a period conducive to gaming, the competitive FPS had brought together more than 1,308,000 players at the same time.
Thanks to this new exploit, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive becomes the third most popular game in the history of the Steam platform. In front of him, we find Lost Ark as well as PUBG.
