After the deadline date painted on Valve’s CS:GO Cease & Desist letter passed, Lee Davy takes a look at what action the third party sites have made and what Valve’s next move is.

When Mahatma Gandhi said that Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed I doubt his crystal ball showed humanity reaching into the virtual world to get their fill.

In 1999, Minh “Gooseman” Le and Jess “Cliffe” Cliffe released a modification of the now famous computer game Half-Life called Planet Half-Life. It seems that even back then people were fascinated by the appeal of terrorists killing counter terrorists and vice versa because the mod received 10,000 hits in the first fortnight.

The lads knew they had a hit on their hands, and so did Valve Corporation, who eventually took over and over the years continued to refine and tune the game until it became Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, one of the most popular eSports titles in the world.