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Counter-Strike creator developing new FPS
Of the the original creators of Counter-Strike, Mihn Le, has revealed that he’s working on a new FPS similar to Counter-Strike, called Tactical Intervention, which is build on the Source Engine.
Mihn Le, alongside Jess Cliffe, created Counter-Strike back in 1999, as mod to Half Life. Valve acquired the rights in 2000, and brought them over to Seattle to work on the game. Mihn Le has since worked on his own, and is now working in South Korea with a small team on the new game, which should be out by the end of the year.
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Gamers band together to protest German ban on videogames
It’s no surprise that Germany’s recent banning of games such as World of Warcraft and Counterstrike would cause an uproar in the gaming community — It seems that a group of German gamers have banded together to form a formal protest against the government’s recent decision.
Said group formed a march 400 strong who paraded through Karlsurhe to show their hatred towards the government’s “war on videogames”. But that’s not all, Destructoid reports that 3 more protests are planned to happen simultaneously on July 25th.
Furthermore, there is an online petition that has formed that hopes to reach 5,000 signatures because if it does, officials are required by law to rethink their banning of such games. Will this be enough? Let’s hope so because I mean honestly, how can you ban Counterstrike?
Want to help out? The online petition is located here.
Germany bans public play of Counter-Strike
It seems Germany is at it again, this time setting their eyes upon Valve’s extremely popular Counter-Strike series. Legislation was recently passed that now makes it illegal to play Counter-Strike in public.
This has led to the cancelation of Germany’s Convention-X-Treme LAN event which is sure to discourage the mass of German gamers. Furthermore, Destructoid is reporting that World of Warcraft has also been banned from public play.
What’s next, Germany, Halo?
Half-Life, Counter-Strike Lifetime Sales Figures Revealed
Valve has finally released lifetime retail sales figures for some of its most popular games, including the Half-Life and Counter-Strike series. The sales figures reveal that the studio has sold over 32.8 million copies of their games since their first title back in 1998.
Interestingly, sales from Steam is not included in the below list, so the figure is actually much higher. The following numbers are also sales on only PC, not taking into factor console sales, and were published first in Game Informer and then on Gamasutra.
Here they are:
- Half-Life (Valve) / 1998 – 9.3 Million
- Half-Life: Opposing Force (PC, Gearbox) / 1999 – 1.1 Million
- Half-Life: Blue Shift (PC, Gearbox) / 2001 – 800,000
- Counter-Strike (PC, Valve) / 2000 – 4.2 Million
- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (PC, Valve) / 2004 – 2.9 Million
- Counter Strike: Source (PC, Valve) / 2006 – 2.1 Million
- Counter-Strike (Xbox, Valve) / 2003 – 1.5 Million
- Half-Life 2 (Valve) / 2004 – 6.5 Million
- Half-Life 2: Episode One (PC, Valve) / 2006 – 1.4 Million
- The Orange Box (Valve) / 2007 – 3 Million