CS:GO Beta Update: cs_italy, New Guns, More Invites and Chickens

Valve’s weekly update to the CS:GO beta was released a 2 days ago, featuring a host of minor changes as well as quickmatch changing to cs_italy (the first time we’ve seen Italy in Global Offensive), the addition of Arsenal: Demolition map St. Marc, and four new guns – the FAMAS, Galil, P250 and Dual Berettas aka “Dualies”. Additionally, they have sent out another wave of beta invites to survey takers, as well as sending out some CS:GO beta passes so folks can give a beta key to their friend. Restart your Steam client to see if you got accepted into the beta or not.

You’ll all be happy to hear that chickens have returned to Italy after their mysterious absence in the Source version of Italy – now you can find one kicking around the CT spawn area. We’ll have a full host of screenshots of both Italy and St. Marc up soon, along with some recorded gameplay footage of Italy and hostage mode in action.

Following is the changelog for today’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta update which can also be found on Steam.