Counter-Strikehas simplified its logo amidst a storm ofCS2 and Source 2 leaks, sending the community further into its desperation to try and find evidence for when it will launch and what it will be. All the while, Valve is keeping quiet, but if we’ve learned anything fromHalf-Life,Team Fortress, andLeft 4 Dead, quiet won’t dissuade Valve fans.
A post simply titled “New Banner on Twitter!” blew up in the CS:GO subreddit with 6,000 upvotes as of writing. One look at the comments and you’ll see why - the excitement isn’t because of the new logo design, but what it represents, hope for an imminent CS2 announcement.
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The updated banner has sparked a new theory. The ‘CS2’ trademark was only filed to stop any copycats from making a fake sequel, and the new Source 2 game will be titled simply ‘Counter-Strike’, dropping the clunky Global Offensive suffix. There’s already a Counter-Strike, but it’s often called CS 1.6 by the community, anyway. The new banner and logo does drop the ‘GO’ part, so this theory definitely has legs.
Then there’s u/lefboop, who took this update and ran face-first into a brick wall: “I literally downloaded the image, looked for hidden messages, looked at the metadata, opened it as text, checked the colors hex codes and found nothing…. edit: hold on, the hexcode is 303a7b. 30th march at 7 beta. pleasehelp.”
As u/shinigami_rem replied, “please calm the f*** down.”
Others see a logo change and new colour scheme as all but confirmation that Counter-Strike whatever-comes-next is real, with one commenter writing, “a rebrand just for the game to be the exact same seems pointless. I tend to believe that its going to be a separate/new game.”
Normally, fans get hyped up by new trailers or gameplay footage, but Valve communities are unique. Keeping quiet means that something as small as a new logo is enough to send the subreddit into a frenzy of speculation and excitement, and maybe this time it’ll pan out - let’s just hope that CS2 isn’tthe new Half-Life 3.
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