Counter-Strike : Global Offensive BETA Is Now Live!

Valve put the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta live at about midnight in Europe and the wait for key holders to try the game is now over. 

After having to postpone the beta launch, Valve announced November 30 as the date when the beta would go live and they kept that promise.

Nobody had a clue as to when the beta would go live and various social medias have been spammed throughout the day, with guesses as to when Valve would let the public play the CS:GO beta. 


 Around midnight, the CS:GO developer team announced on their twitter account that the beta had gone live and was now available for key holders to download.

 
By the same token, Counter-Strike's website was re-launched and includes a Q/A for everyone with questions to the newest edition of the game. To read the Q/A click here, while you will be able to participate in the debate and feedback on the Steam forums.

Remember that the beta is only a small snippet of the final game. This means only selected maps and weapons will be playable.

Wondering why we have not given out any keys yet? Let us clarify. We will have keys, just as Chet Faliszek promised in our interview with him, recorded during the IEM6 Global Challenge New York.

Right now the main object for Valve is to stress test with the keys that have already been handed out at various events, such as the IEM event in New York, ESWC and most recently DreamHack Winter.

Once a stress test has been completed, Valve will be looking for server operators to get a better disbursement of servers geographically and when that is done, we will be able to raffle away keys to the beloved HLTV.org users.

So to those without a CS:GO beta key: hang in there!

Source : HLTV.org