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Any Valve game is generally something to get excited about, but when Valve is making a sequel to a game with as an enormous following as Counter-strike, it’s really time to sit up and take notice. This certainly won’t be a clone on a different engine either such as Counter-strike: Source, Valve clearly has big plans for the next installment in this power-house franchise.<\/p>\n
Very recently we found out that in addition to being released on all the major FPS platforms, the game will be supporting cross-platform play<\/a> – allowing PS3 and PC users to duke it out online.<\/p>\n On the heels of this, Valve has now announced that the PS3 version of the game will include Playstation Move support, as well as keyboard and mouse support.<\/p>\n This is big news for Valve, as they were very anti-PS3 at the time of its release, mostly due to the console’s additional requirements for multi-threaded coding. Valve has since done a bit of an about-face since Sony allowed them to install a custom edition of Steam on their console, with Newell saying, “They’ve done the scary thing and I think it’s up to us as developers to make sure Sony and its customers are rewarded.”<\/p>\n Counter-strike: Global Offensive will mark Valve’s first motion-control supported console game, and one which may genuinely appeal to hardcore gamers. The Playstation Move has had many a skeptical eye aimed at it, but a big release such as this may have many more willing to buy into the technology.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the multiplayer FPS scene will eagerly await the game’s early 2012 release.<\/p>\n