End Of The Line Team Fortress 2 Update Starts Here
I’ve been looking forward to Team Fortress 2’s End of the Line update for over a year, not because I’m in love with novelty virtual clothing but because it’s built around a community-made,...
View ArticleTF2’s Mannpower Mode Beta Adds Grappling Hooks!
In a new beta release as part of Team Fortress 2’s Smissmas update, the game is getting grappling hooks! And as is well established, grappling hooks make any game’s score go up by 10%. On a site that...
View ArticleClassic Team Fortress: Steam Release For Fortress Forever
I always felt a little sorry for Fortress Forever [official site]. The folks behind the Source engine mod started in the long period when Valve had seemingly abandoned Team Fortress 2, with the goal...
View ArticleTeam Fortress 2 Film Live And Let Spy Is 20 Minutes Of Fun
It seemed initially like the Source Filmmaker community might be content to make only short and silly videos, but there’s now a growing selection of long and silly videos starring Team Fortress 2...
View ArticleSteam Charging For Mods: For And Against
It used to be that the only way to make money from a mod was a) make a standalone sequel or remake b) use it as a portfolio to get hired by a studio or c) back in the pre-broadband days, shovel it...
View ArticleTeam Fortress 2 Competitive Matchmaking Coming
I lost interest in Team Fortress 2 [official site] around the time that I became good enough to regularly top public servers but had neither the skill nor the interest to jump to organised...
View ArticleThe 50 Best FPS Ever Made
Gathering together the best shooters is no easy task, but if you’re looking for a new PC FPS to play, look no further. Your favourite game is at number 51. … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleDungeon Of The Endless Meets Team Fortress 2 Characters
That rag-tag gang of mercenaries from Team Fortress 2 are at it again, “it” being “appearing in other games made by other people.” This time they’ve popped up in Dungeon of the Endless [official...
View ArticleGuns & Medals: Team Fortress 2 Takes Tips From CS:GO
I am fascinated by how Valve apply lessons from one game to another, building on ideas or outright copying bits from one game to another. Team Fortress 2 [official site] fed Counter-Strike: Global...
View ArticleThoughts On Team Fortress 2’s Gun Mettle Update
You might have forgotten Team Fortress 2 exists, but the same can’t be said of the 50-odd-thousand people that are playing it as I write this. Last week Valve rolled out the games 33rd(!) major...
View ArticleTeam Fortress 2 Gets New Ball Sport PASS Time Mode
Isn’t it nice when companies become friends? Valve and Bad Robot, J. J. Abrams production company responsible for TV shows like Lost and movies like Super 8, have teamed up to produce a new mode for...
View ArticleBif! Bam! Pow! Team Fortress 2 Comic Issue #5 Out
I haven’t played Team Fortress 2 [official site] in almost a year, Steam tells me, but by gum! I haven’t stopped caring about the goofy world have created for their free-to-play FPS. Valve have some...
View ArticleTeam Fortress TwoOoOO Crowdsourcing Halloween
Good news: Valve are working on a new “major update” for their free-to-play FPS Team Fortress 2 [official site]. Bad news: it’s not a Halloween update. This new update has left the TF2 team too busy...
View ArticleTeam Fortress 2 Marks Halloween With Alien Invasion
As the march towards Halloween gains pace (seriously, where has this year disappeared to?!), Team Fortress 2 [official site] has launched a month-long Invasion event, spilling its community-curated...
View ArticleTeam Fortress 2 Halloween Revives All Prior Halloweens
Sell your pumpkin heads! Team Fortress 2‘s [official site] Halloween event has launched. Scream Fortress runs from now through till November 11th, comes with a new comic, and introduces themed items,...
View ArticleMarvelous Machinima: Valve Open Saxxy Award Voting
Each year, Valve honour the finest Source Filmmaker creators with an imaginary gold statuette of a shirtless imaginary man with chest hair in the shape of imaginary country Australia. Ah, the Saxxy...
View ArticleMachinimagic: Valve Announce Saxxy Award Winners
“Laughter is the best medicine,” say people who are about to discover laughter actually makes a broken nose worse. Laughter’s pretty okay, though, as are other emotions – and creative mediums can help...
View ArticleTeam Fortress 2’s Tough Break Update Hits
Valve crept in during the night and left a little present under your Christmas PC (I’ve seen it, stuffed full of lights and gingerbread with a case window to show them off), a nice, big Team Fortress...
View ArticleI Miss Watching Other People Play Games
I’ve realised I miss watching other people play games. That’s perhaps a strange thought, given the ubiquity of Twitching live-streams and long plays on YouTube – but that’s really not what I mean. I...
View ArticleTeam Fortress 2’s Competitive Matchmaking Beta Plans
We’ve known for almost a year that Valve have been planning to add competitive matchmaking to Team Fortress 2 [official site] buuut well, I imagine Valve got distracted chasing a squirrel in the park...
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