[Rumour] Counter-Strike 2 To Be Announced This March

The next Counter-Strike could be made official this week.

The incredibly popular PvP terrorist vs. counter-terrorist first-person shooter that started out as a Half-Life mod will be getting a part two, according to esports journalist Richard Lewis. He is renowned for breaking Counter-Strike news, so there’s a ton of legitimacy regarding the leak.

Counter-Strike 2 might even enter beta as soon as this month according to sources close to Lewis. The game is more or less ready to go and is in a limited testing phase. Furthermore, new NVidia drivers just introduced support for apps such as “csgos2.exe” and “cs2.exe”. These are most likely related to Counter-Strike 2 based on the file names, most likely to prep for the launch of the beta this month.

Something weird just happened. Latest NVIDIA drivers introduced support for unknown app executables called "csgos2.exe" and "cs2.exe". Why project is called Counter-Strike 2 and what are you cooking @csgo? https://t.co/U9YKlAjwgy pic.twitter.com/PU8Op9uGLq

— ?Gabe Follower (@gabefollower) March 1, 2023

Counter-Strike 2 is the reason Valve has yet to work on recent CS:GO issues. Lewis said the big priority for the company is to get the sequel out and polishing it. The game will run on the Source 2 engine, which isn’t surprising as all Valve-made games run on the engine.

CS:GO is still Steam’s most popular game with more than 1.3 million players on the game every day.