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There Is Half-Life Stuff Hiding in Counter-Strike: GO

The people at Valve Software like to tease. They don’t, however, like to confirm the existence of new Half-Life games

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Kotaku reader ZombieK says he spotted these images in the beta for Valve’s spring-scheduled multiplayer shooter Counter-Strike: GO. Let’s classify them as teases. Or taunts. Or.. Easter Eggs?

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The shots first appeared on the Steam forums last month.

ZombieK says the images all come from the beta’s unreleased office map. ā€œThe textures and all the files for the unreleased maps are there except for the maps,ā€ he said over e-mail. ā€œI originally ported only the map cs_office from source. And when I opened it in GO the chalkboard spread all over the wall . So obviously it didnt have any coding for how big it should of been but when I saw it, I started digging through every directory.ā€

The first two images are screenshots. The others are art files pulled from the game’s directories. The Mesa bits and the crowbar are Half-Life references. The others are jokes about other Valve games, Counter-Strike included. Good teases, Valve fans?

And no, this isn’t a confirmation of Half Life 3 either.

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