Counter-Strike: Get it while it's cheap!

Counter-Strike: Get it while it's cheap!

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Sometimes, the best news is short and sweet. Valve have taken a break from all their relentless updating, and have decided to give us a bit of a treat.

If you haven't yet picked up either Counter-Strike or Counter-Strike Source, for this weekend only, they're both on sale for 50% off the regular marked price. The original CS also comes with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero thrown in for for free!

If you want to save even more, you can even pick up the combo pack, Counter-Strike Complete, which contains all three games, for the same discount!

Counter-Strike
Still billed as the most popular online action game, Counter-Strike often receives credit for popularizing teamplay in online games. Originally released in 1999 as a downloadable modification for the pivotal first person shooter Half-Life, Counter-Strike was a fixture on every serious PC gamer's machine by the time it was "officially" released by Sierra in 2000. With a full complement of real world pistols, rifles and shotguns, teams of players battling back and forth as terrorists and counter-terrorists in Counter-Strike became the basic blueprint for many modern team-based online shooters.​

Counter-Strike Source
A remake/update of the original Counter-Strike, running on the Half-Life 2 Source engine. This title was made available through Valve's Steam downloading service in October of 2004, with a retail release in the Fall of 2005.

With a full complement of real world pistols, rifles and shotguns, Counter-Strike's battle of terrorists and counter-terrorists became the basic blueprint for many modern team-based online shooters. Now enhanced with the power of the Source engine, the game features drastically improved visuals, enhancements on classic maps, offline skirmish play with AI bots and more.​

If this sounds like a good way of spending your weekend, you'd better head over to Steam and make some purchases - this one won't last beyond August 11th!