CSGO

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or simply CS:GO is a first-person shooter game developed by Valve Corporation on Steam and XBOX 360. It was released August 21st of 2012 on PC, and the next day for XBOX 360. It is $15 on XBOX, and $15 on Steam.

Objective
The objective of the game is to stop the other team from performing the designated task assigned to them by the game mode. There are two teams, the Counter Terrorists and the Terrorists, with 5 gamemodes each.

Deathmatch
The game mode "Deathmatch" is to eliminate the other team and get to the top of the leaderboards. The two teams fight against each other with unlimited money and respawns.

Arms Race
The game mode "Arms Race" is much like Call of Duty's Gun Game, where you must kill two people to upgrade your gun. The guns vary by teams.

Domination
The game mode "Domination" is to eliminate the other team. It is much like Arms Race, but the gamemode is in rounds and the teams switch during halftime. You upgrade guns from killing the other team, and each extra kill after the first of the round will give you an extra grenade.

Casual
The game mode "Casual" is a dumbed-down version of Competitive. There are 10 people on a team, and the object of the Terrorists is to plant the bomb and defend it from the Counter-Terrorists. The Counter-Terrorists are supposed to defuse the bomb and eliminate all terrorists. There are 15 rounds, no respawns, and teams do not switch.

Competitive
The game mode "Competitive" is the most commonly played game mode. There are 5 people to a team, and in essence, it is the same as Casual. You gain more experience in Competitive and you rank up from Silver I to Global Elite by winning matches. There are 30 rounds and teams switch on the 16th. There are no respawns.

Weapon Skins
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive features many weapon variations nicknamed "skins" by the community. Skins cost real money and can often look very nice. For example, the PP-Bizon skin named "Fuel Rod" makes the magazine look like a fuel cell (pictured to the right). Knife skins are very rare and are often the most expensive kind of skins. The Karambit skin named "Doppler" has seven phases, the phase nicknamed "Black Pearl" is one of the most expensive knife skins (pictured to the left).