In 2012, Valve released Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a completely modernized take on the series. In 2004, Valve released Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, a reworked version of the original game with two singleplayer campaigns, and Counter-Strike: Source, a port of the game to Valve's new Source engine. It was later made as a standalone game in 2003 on Valve's then-new Steam digital distribution platform, after which it was most commonly known as Counter-Strike 1.6.
Impressed with the mod, Valve hired Le and Cliffe and turned Counter-Strike into a retail product, which they released as Half-Life: Counter-Strike. Counter-Strike began as a modification developed by Minh 'Gooseman' Le and Jess 'Cliffe' Cliffe for Valve's Half-Life. Counter-Strike series Group Description Counter-Strike is a series of multiplayer first-person shooters primarily developed by Valve Corporation that focus on competitive battles between teams of terrorists and counter-terrorists.
