Top 5 Highest paying eSport Games 5. Counter-Strike Prize Pool – $10,771,935.77 Professional Players – 2587 Tournaments – 572 Highest Earning Counter – Sweden sweden-icon $2,733,810.21 Largest Prize Pool – $200,000.00 The only retired eSports game in the top 5 and also the predecessor to the current active Counter-Strike: Global offensive title. Counter-Strike (sometimes referred to as Half-Life: Counter-Strike or Counter-Strike 1.6, and shortened to CS) is a tactical first-person shooter developed by Valve Corporation. The game went to expand into other series since the original release of the game, which was successful in their right, but the original still reigned as the championship game title. The Counter-Strike version 1.6 retired as the main competitive series in late 2012 when the majority of organisations and teams transferred over when Valve discontinued its support for the professional circuit. Intel Extreme Masters was one of th...