Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hits 1m concurrent players for the first time

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has hit one million concurrent players for the first time in its history.

Valve's eight-year-old first-person shooter hit an incredible peak of 1,002,031 players today, according to official Steam stats.

That makes it the most-popular game on Steam by some distance. Valve's MOBA, Dota 2, is currently the second-most popular game on Steam, with a peak of 685,879 players. Battle royale PUBG is in third with 525,462 players.

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