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Valve has released a new trailer for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which is coming to Steam, PSN, and Xbox Live Arcade on Tuesday. While some folks may never let go of whatever specific version of Counter-Strike they've been playing all this time, the rest of us are going to go try something new. Also, it's worth noting that the entire video was made in Source Filmmaker, Valve's free video editor.

Source Filmmaker is a tool released by Valve that allows users to make movies in the Source engine just like Valve does for Team Fortress 2. It requires Steam to install, of course, but once installed folks can dig through the files. Doing exactly that has yielded some interesting results: A number of lines in the script files reference a new next-gen Source 2 engine. Cue squealing with joy as Valve's Source engine is arguably still one of the best on the market.

Garry's Mod, the ever-popular physics sandbox, has become a playground for 2nd degree recursion: Games in your game. For the unfamiliar, Garry's Mod is a modification for Half-Life 2's Source Engine that lets players play around with physics, NPCs, scripts, and pretty much anything else. Now, nearly 7 years after HL2's release, the Garry's Mod community is still using it as a laboratory for their mad science. The Facepunch (Garry's Mod message board) members responsible for this particular experiement are Technicolour and Divran, who thought it would be cool to play other games inside of Garry's Mod and what better way to do that than to emulate a Intel 8080 8-bit microprocessor and then use it to play Space Invaders, inside Garry's mod. Where will they go from there? They have some grand aspirations.