1.4 million players gathered at the same time in the same game. The shooting game franchise counterattack continues to mark the video game industry. Already the record holder for simultaneous players, the episode counter strike global offensive (CS:GO) set the bar even higher with 1,420,183 people up for grabs this Saturday, March 11.
This new performance adds more than 100,000 players to the previous record established three years ago, during the first confinements, recalls the EuroGamer site. On Twitter, the official account of the flagship PC video game license thanked its community for giving the floor to each other to play together.
Towards a new episode?
This new record comes just a few days after the announcement of a possible new episode. In early March, a videographer revived rumors of a sequel to the CS:GO game released in August 2012. He tweeted information of the latest driver updates for Nvidia graphics cards.
Among the list of supported applications are “csgos2.exe” and “cs2.exe”. According to him, it would be the game. counter attack 2. However, no information has arrived confirming a possible release of the title. And this, despite the videographer’s announcement of an imminent announcement.
Freelance journalist Richard Lewis also predicted a new installment. But in the end, it wouldn’t really be a new game, but rather a remake of the current title, using a newer game engine from developer Valve.
Both the cameraman and the journalist estimate that an announcement should be made by the end of March and no later than April 1. In view of the latest figures, such an exit would certainly allow the license counterattack to set a new record.
Source: BFM TV
