Shawn “FMPONE” Snelling is a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive level designer and community contributor. Snelling has had five levels in CS:GO, including his most recent project, Santorini ...

Building Crown is a three part series from mapmaker Shawn " FMPONE ” Snelling and pro Counter-Strike player/mapmaker Sal " VOLCANO " Garozzo, revealing the inspiration and building process for their ...

It's difficult enough for the Dota 2 community to acclimatise to change - and that game was released six months ago. How might Valve go about slotting brand new maps into Counter-Strike, a game ...

A new map and some weapon skins have been added to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The Canals map in CS:GO is based on real-world environments with each area having its own architectural style and ...

This project explores the mechanics, player reactions, and game physics associated with falling from extreme heights in a custom Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) map set on a towering ...

This year's catalog of GDC panels included some Counter-Strike: "Community Level Design for Competitive CS:GO" a series of words that are alarmingly up my alley. There was no way I wasn't missing a ...

A new and impressive-looking Counter-Strike: Global Offensive fan-made map has popped up on the FPS game's Steam Workshop, which takes its classic bomb defusal Wingman game mode and transports it to a ...