The ongoing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta test sounds as though it’s proceeding at a mighty pace (we still haven’t received our invites, Valve…), and with a release date for the full game set for the ‘Summer’ and major changes already being made to the project’s overall vision, Valve is surely getting reams of valuable data from the taster.

So what does a company like Valve do to a beta with all of this information at its disposal? Update! Fix! Change! Remove! Modify! More fix!

Here’s the latest set of updates made to Counter-Strike: GO’s beta test:

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Valve has announced that the latest version of the company’s world-conquering team-based first-person shooter, Counter-Strike, will be out this ‘Summer,’ on PC, Mac, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, which translates to a rough mid-2012 launch for the game.

Will Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (or GO) pull the same trick it managed back in the 1.6 and Source days? Can it hope to compete with the likes of Call of Duty and Battlefield on the consoles?

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Formally announced in mid-August, Valve Software’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the latest and upcoming version of the developer’s tactical team-based online shooter, Counter-Strike, and will include support for leaderboards and matchmaking, enhanced online features, as well as new weapons, maps and characters.

Counter-Strike: GO will also include modes new to Counter-Strike, it’s been revealed.

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El33tonline’s gamescom team got back from Germany early this week, and while we were away we were extremely busy attending developer demonstrations of unreleased games and roaming the halls of the Koelnmesse (… in Cologne), unable to spare even a moment to look over what’s been happening in the world of videogames.

And there’s been quite a bit happening, by the looks of it, but there are a few news stories in particular that we’d like to catch up on. A new version of Counter-Strike? A new design for the Wii? A delay for Kinect Star Wars?

Let’s take a look:

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