Valve has announced that the open beta for CS:GO will start in the New Year.

The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive developers stated their satisfaction via their official twitter with the stress test, which included 10,000 key holders from around the world that were lucky enough to be the first ones to try out the game.

Although the stress test wasn't a real success from an outsider's point of view for some as the testing-players peak was relatively low for the amount of keys that were given out, the developers seem happy with the amount of interest and feedback from everyone in the testing community, from players to websites.

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Just in case you aren't up-to-date, there have been plenty of announcements such as the map list, which you can read about by clicking here.

The beta going open in 2012 means more feedback, and of course HLTV.org is looking forward to covering the game's development, so stay tuned.