Update: As most people figured out, this was an April’s fools. Thanks to everyone who laughed with us, hopefully we’ll see Half-life 3 for real some day!

Nassau, Bahamas – Ever since the release of our CS:GO and Minecraft servers, people have been asking – Where will you go next? What’s the next game to have revolutionized gameserver hosting? To us, the answer was always clear, as in our minds there was only one game that could top the ones we already have. Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of our Half-Life 3 servers.

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Today we’ll go through how you can use eBot with your DatHost.net server or with any other dedicated server. If you are hosting the server yourself, or have your server with another host, you will have to make sure that the cSay plugin is installed on your CSGO server. On DatHost.net servers, you can easily install the cSay plugin with one click.

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Valve recently updated de_cobblestone, or cbble, after complaints on the map from the community. In short, the changes remove a lot of the large distances and instead makes the map more similar to inferno or dust2, with smaller bombsites and more cover.

We love Cobblestone and think that a lot of the hate it receives is because of the map being different, but also not as explored as other maps. For example, there aren’t any great smoke tutorials out there for this map.

We’ll be trying to help out the community by sharing some grenades, wallbang spots and strategies on the new cobblestone. For this post, we sat down and came up with a lot of useful smokes for Cobblestone. Our focus was on smokes with easy to remember markers and to avoid having to jump / run as much as possible, so the smokes become even more consistent. You can find our smokes below.

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A long, wild and bumpy ride

When I first started DatHost 2 years ago, it was as a fun side-project and a way of giving back to the awesome gaming community that I was part of. Not even in my wildest dreams could I imagine the crazy amount of growth that it’d see.

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As of today, we have Minecraft servers available for rent. You have the chance to get one cheap!

We’ve been hard at work here at Dat Host, ensuring that we can give you a great service. Today’s update includes a new control panel(log in and take a look!), a credit system and Minecraft servers.

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Inferno is one of the most popular maps in the game, and has been in every game in the CS franchise. Recently, there seems to have been a lot of people struggling with this map, so we will be doing a blog series that will teach you how to play this map as well as possible.

As always, if you want more blog posts like these, feel free to follow us on Twitter and/or like us on Facebook. To rent a CS:GO server, go here.

In the second part of this blog series, we will be covering smokes and flash grenades. The usage of these grenades are what really separates the great players from the good ones. We’ve compiled 2 great playlists for you to help.

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