Category: TeamFortress

In Less Than Two Days, 9 Of Team Fortress 2′s Oldest Hats Will Be Permanently Retired

January 22nd, 2013 · By Vic · 21 Comments

Way back in May of 2009, Valve introduced Team Fortress players to the Sniper vs. Spy Update, which at the time was TF2′s most ambitious game update yet – providing both the Sniper and Spy classes with three significant new weapons each, as well as several new maps, alongside a brand new gamemode. But this update brought us something else, something which would leave a lasting impact not only on TF2 itself, but on all of Valve’s future work, as a whole… hats.

Yes, the Sniper vs. Spy Update was when TF2 got its 9 first rare cosmetic headgear items – one for each playable class. Since then, Valve (alongside numerous item designers from the Team Fortress community) have added 259 more hats to TF2- and so, by now, most people have forgotten about those 9 original hats… which makes it all the more interesting that Valve has actually decided to permanently retire them from the game’s item circuit.

Steam’s New Community Market Beta Goes Live, Lets Players Buy And Sell In-Game Items Using Steam Wallet Funds

December 13th, 2012 · By Vic · 11 Comments

Though we may take it for granted these days, Steam Trading might just represent one of the most significant innovations in the field of in-game community interaction in recent years. Trading games, coupons, and items, all within the Steam community. The Team Fortress 2 economy alone was estimated last year to be worth 20 million dollars – and that was a very conservative estimate, made only 6 months after the game had become free-to-play.

And a lot of people have made some a lot of money by buying and selling these in-game items. But since so much of that activity takes place outside the Steam ecosystem (in the so-called gray market), it could be quite difficult to track what’s going on in the marketplace at large. But it seems as though Valve have found a way to remedy that problem in a pretty unique way. Read on!

TF2′s Second Annual Saxxy Awards Have Concluded!

December 2nd, 2012 · By Vic · 10 Comments

I have returned from the dead to ensure that each and every one of you gets to look at some of the greatest moving pictures I have seen this side of the Source Engine!

Voting Goes Live For Team Fortress 2′s Second Annual Saxxy Awards!

November 16th, 2012 · By Vic · 7 Comments

The only time voting has ever been exciting, terrifying, and completely nerve-wracking, (all at the same time) in the history of humankind… was probably when Valve had us shooting the hell out of each other like never before, then patiently re-editing the footage into a cinema masterpiece (also like never before), all in the name of attaining a foot-high Australium bust of Saxton Hale. Evidently, I’m referring to TF2′s First Annual Saxxy Awards, which took place in May of 2011.

Well, I hope you’ve been keeping your voting finger in good shape, for it’s all going to come rushing back very soon. And by “very soon“, I mean “literally right now“.

Steam For Linux’s Limited-Access Public Beta Has Gone Live, Featuring Support For Two Dozen Steam Titles

November 6th, 2012 · By Vic · 9 Comments

Could the PC gaming revolution be almost upon our doorstep? And most importantly, are you a bad enough dude/dudette to dual-boot, in order to find out if it is?

Five Years Since The Orange Box Was Opened

October 10th, 2012 · By Vic · 11 Comments

Things haven’t been the same since. The doctors say my addiction to Team Fortress 2 (and by extension, my addiction to hats) may never be cured.

Source Engine 2007′s Source Code Library Leaked

September 12th, 2012 · By Vic · 26 Comments

Valve has never freely released the full engine source codebase for the Source engine – not even its direct precursor, the “GoldSource” engine. In fact, they may never do so, and that’s understandable. It’s imperative that Source remain closed-source, due to its uniquely modular nature. It’s a shame, but it’s the way things have to be if we want Valve’s technology to be secure (especially within multiplayer games).

Although as you may remember, back in early October 2003, German black-hat hacker Axel “Ago” Gembe (or as he would thereafter be known: “Osama Bin Leaker“) leaked the source code for Half-Life 2 and the Source engine, just several weeks after the game had received an infamous and indefinite delay a mere 14 days before the game was supposed to be released on the 30th of September. HL2 only dropped one year later, and by that point both the game and Source had been modified fairly extensively. But still, the repercussions of that incident were felt far and wide at the time, and, arguably, they can still be felt even to this day.

But it would appear we now have a similar mess on our hands. Read on!

TF2: Mann Vs Machine Now Live, For Free

August 16th, 2012 · By Vic · 13 Comments

And the survivors called it… Judgement Day. Then, the survivors sent me angry messages for taking too long with this post.

Then they apologized, and told me no one had actually managed to play this thing because of the broken matchmaking. So now we’re cool.

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