Jess A. Cliffe (born June 27, 1981) is a video game designer who co-created the Half-Life mod Counter-Strike with Minh Le and started the Counter-Strike series. He is also the "voice of Counter-Strike" via the radio commands, the voiceline "Counter-Terrorists Win!" and sound effects. He has worked on maps for Half-Life: Deathmatch. Education He attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1999 to 2003. Career Before getting involved with the original Counter-Strike, Jess Cliffe was a very active gaming website designer. The earliest known gaming website he founded was Jedi Knight Multiplayer Addon Group (JKMAG) which he founded in December 1997. After around a year of maintaining the website, he moved on to start the website Action Quake2 Map Depot. It was during the time he was involved with this site that he got to know Marcelo Dilay and Minh Le as Dilay and Le were part of the team developing Action Quake 2. Around January 1999, Cliffe also founded the website Silo X devoted to Half-Life maps. After graduating Cliffe took a job with Valve, where he was employed as a game designer, 3D artist and level designer. However, he was suspended from Valve in early 2018 due to being arrested. Legal history Arrest for sexual exploitation, investigation On February 2, 2018, at 1:17 a.m. PST, Cliffe was arrested on allegations of "sexual exploitation of a minor" in the Southwest Precinct of Seattle. Cliffe allegedly met a girl online via an adult website, and paid her for a date which became sexual. Cliffe maintained that he thought he was paying a "matchmaking fee" on a dating website for adults. In the encounter, the girl claimed that Cliffe videotaped their encounter "against her will" but that she also "refrained from saying anything." Cliffe denied that he videotaped the encounter. The girl, then 16, told investigators she communicated with Cliffe via text message. According to police, Cliffe told officers he believed the girl was 23 years old, and the teenager also said she wasn't sure he knew she was 16. To make an account on the website, you must enter that you are at least 18 or older in your profile. The case started in May 2017 when the King County Sheriff's Office received a Child Protective Services referral. Statement from Cliffe On March 6, 2019, and edited in April 2019, Cliffe wrote on Reddit that he "never recorded this