Counter-Strike 2 is causing tremendous anticipation after the release date for much awaited CS2 was finally revealed. The new game by Valve will probably enjoy global popularity upon launch, particularly regarding that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive still boasts over a million active players daily.
Until now, Valve said it would be released “during the summer”, but maybe they didn’t see their calendars, because we’re at the end of September now.
Valve finally broke the silence, by posting a highly suspicious question on Twitter.
With posting on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, Valve finally broke the silence. It looks like Valve officially revealed the much-awaited release of Counter-Strike 2, and it’s scheduled to launch on September 27.
A recent reveal by ThourCS already delivered us a bit of insight into when the game will be launched. ThourCS discovered some details in the game code about seasonal leaderboards. That means that CS2 will have a leaderboard ranking for the leading players like Valorant has.
ThourCS discovered some dates related to the seasons in the source code of the game. It looked like the first official season after the limited test phase would begin on September 23 and would stay for three months till December 22.
This didn’t quite come to pass, as it now looks like CS2 will be launched a few days later, on September 27. We still hope this first season to released on that day as well, or a few days later at the latest.
It is likely, that Counter-Strike 2 won’t feature ranked matchmaking for the first days or weeks, since players need to get used to the new game. So we think CS2 will be released in early September.
For the 20th birthday of Steam – which is owned by Valve – we acquired a bit historical rundown, that included some extra information. In their blog post, they said:
The year isn’t quite over but so far we’ve released a huge Steam Client update, Counter-Strike 2
entered into beta (and launches soon) […]
According to Valve, the game “launches soon.” That’s one step ahead of the official details we had before, which only had the information “coming in summer”.
