Counter-Strike has spent more than two decades teaching players to listen for one particular sound before making an aggressive move: the enemy reloading. Valve has now changed that equation.

For decades now, Counter-Strike players have gotten used to tapping the reload button whenever they have a spare, safe moment. Yesterday evening, though, Valve announced that it had decided this ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally for the best part of a decade. Although he ...

Games are full of patterns. Those patterns train players to do certain things. For years, multiplayer shooters have been training them to reload whenever possible in order to keep their gun magazine ...

For many fans, including myself, Gears of War: E-Day looks to be a breath of fresh air and a welcome return to everything that made the series great. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not innovating ...

Reissad Studio released the first of four developer diaries for Bodycam v0.8 — the upcoming Locked & Loaded update due September 2, 2026 — and the centerpiece is a new animation engine that makes the ...