First thoughts were that CS 1.6 would be released sometime this month. However new information revealed today at the Steam website states that Steam beta 2.0 and Counter-Strike beta 1.6 are slated to launch in mid-December. Steam is a digital content management system that provides content delivery, component revision control and data security to developers of such content. Steam is embedded within a Steam-enabled application giving it a virtual file system from which it can obtain "resources" (not files) from a local cache, CD or from the Internet.