Tactical Intervention: the return of Counter-Strike’s Gooseman

Vox : In 1999, Minh "Gooseman" Le co-created the seminal modern combat shooter Counter-Strike as a free downloadable mod for Half-Life. A year later, both Counter-Strike and Le were acquired by Half-Life developer Valve, where Counter-Strike was repackaged and sold by the truckload, and Le was put to work creating the follow-up, Counter-Strike 2.

That was then.

This is now: More than a decade has passed and to the outside observer, both Counter-Strike 2 and Le have been frozen in time. In theory, Valve officially ceased production on the game following Le's departure from the studio in 2002. In reality, it's production had never really begun.