http://www.gamesradar.com/counter-strike/articles/ More than five million concurrent players made use of Steam over the holiday period, with the platform's peak-time user counts passing the milestone for the first time. New entrants into this fast-growing field will have some catching up to do...http://www.gamesradar.com/steam-hits-5-million-concurrent-users-means-all-online-all-once/Jan. 3, 2012, 3 p.m.These days, if you want to compete online, you have to compete with Counter-Strike. Close to half a million players regularly play on more than 200,000 servers, running through the well-worn corridors of Dust, Militia and Aztec. And it all started with two friends working from their college http://www.gamesradar.com/the-history-of-counter-strike/Jan. 26, 2007, 1:13 p.m.