A perennial rumour in  the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ecosystem has been the theory that the now 10-year-old FPS will be ported to Valve’s current in-house engine, Source 2. This past week, the speculation and whispers have gone into overdrive, with many convinced that a ‘new’ version of perhaps the iconic PC game is on the way.

CS:GO as it stands was made with Valve’s older Source engine. What an upgrade to Source 2 would actually look like is the subject of some debate, with some starry-eyed about the prospect of a rebuilt game that follows in the longer history of Counter-Strike being re-released in new forms, while others are more downbeat and expect any eventual Source 2 version to be ‘only’ a minor visual upgrade, possibly with the official 128-tick serve…