{"id":13450,"date":"2011-08-12T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-control-counter-strike-sequel-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/13450-rumour-control-counter-strike-sequel-in-the-works","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: Counter-Strike sequel in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you want more than anything else ever? If you said a &ldquo;Counter-Strike sequel, omg&rdquo;, you&rsquo;re so in luck today.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like Valve has been developing the game on the down-low, but news of recent playtesting is breaking all over the internet now, and an official announcement is expected sometime later today.<\/p>\n<p>The game is apparently called Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, supported by evidence over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.steampowered.com\/forums\/showpost.php?s=f55f0ca4db5d23c4d4c721010e232374&amp;p=24307192&amp;postcount=3\" target=\"_blank\">SteamPowered forums <\/a>(that&rsquo;s Jess Cliffe there, one of Counter-Strike&rsquo;s creators), posts on the <a href=\" http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ESEA.net\" target=\"_blank\">ESEA&rsquo;s Facebook page<\/a>, and a pretty comprehensive Q&amp;A on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/jgehv\/iama_guy_who_spend_the_day_at_valves_headquarters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to that last one, some of the game&rsquo;s features include:<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Free ammo, although this may or may not change<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; New guns, Molotov and decoy grenades<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Free armour, although this also is a matter of hot debate for the moment, with the poster adding that he&rsquo;s &ldquo;pretty sure this will be changed&rdquo;<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some maps return from CS: Source, but &ldquo;have been altered&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16466-Counter-Strike-seuqel-in-development?p=493974#post493974\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Counter-Strike sequel<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COUNTER-STRIKE FANS WIN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}