Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

Cache has returned to Counter-Strike with much fanfare, and Premier players won’t have to wait much longer. Valve has confirmed Cache will join CS2‘s Premier pool in Season 5, replacing Overpass, ...

Cologne 2026 introduced Souvenir-O-Matic, a system that lets CS2 players craft souvenirs from weapons already in their inventory. For years, CS2 souvenir skins were tied to a familiar ritual: buy or ...

The ‍ ‌‍ ‍‌ ‍ ‌‍ ‍‌ Counter-Strike 2 skin economy has officially opened a new chapter in 2026. What were merely cosmetic collectibles a couple of years back have now become one of the most massive ...

On top of those three, CS2 also features Profile Ranks starting from Private Rank 1, which feeds into the annual Service Medal reward. The Competitive ranks of CS2. Image via Dot Esports CS2 ...

There was a time when cases in Counter-Strike were part of the game’s overall rhythm. They existed alongside matches, highlights, trades, and conversations about rare drops. For many players, this was ...

Gaming demographics are shifting. The image of competitive FPS as an exclusively male space has been eroding steadily for over a decade – and CS2 is no exception. While the community still skews ...

Nocries is one of the most recognizable CS2 players right now. He appeared from nowhere and almost instantly reached the top of FACEIT’s North American leatherboards with almost 4300 ELO. His stats ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

CS2 Tools By Jonny is a lightweight Windows utility that swaps power plans, pins CPU cores, kills bloat processes, and bumps Nvidia vibrance the moment CS2 launches — and reverts it all when you're ...