Think about this for a minute. From 2007 to 2011, Team Fortress 2 maintained a fairly consistent 20,000 or so concurrent players. In that time, Valve updated the game more than 100 times, added hundreds of Achievements, items, and weapons, and created an economy for the Steam community where a hat i...
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Whether you are a fan of Team Fortress 2 or The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim, you’ve probably discovered some of the countless talented authors in the Steam Workshop and wished that you could keep track of the new stuff they are creating. Well, now you can! For any item, you can click “View all shared files” to see what else the author has created, and then choose to follow that author. Following someone in the Workshop will let you easily discover the latest items and mods that they c... [read more]

Alliance of Valiant Arms, the popular Free-to-Play game on Steam, is having a special Weekend Deal to commemorate their latest update which includes Steam achievements!

Now through Monday at 10AM Pacific Time, all in-game purchases will net you double the G Coins in A.V.A.! Additionally, a new A.V.A. themed item, the "Black Rose", has been added into Team Fortress 2. Complete the AVA achievement, "1st One Down", to unlock the TF2 item and you'll also receive the TF2-inspired "Holy Mackerel" fo... [read more]

Valve has introduced a $100 engagement ring to Team Fortress 2. Introduced on Valentine's Day, the ring allows players to propose to other players and broadcast a message to the entire Team Fortress community...
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The Game: Team Fortress 2
Genre: Elaborate Hat-Modeling Simulator
Platform: PC, Mac


The Scoop: Valve's Team Fortress 2 launched strong as part of The Orange Box bundle in 2007, and has only gotten stronger since. Valve kept a steady stream of free maps and modes flowing, while also droppi...
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An update posted to the Team Fortress 2 blog teases "something brand new" for Valve's free-to-play online shooter. No word yet on what it is, but Valve did say it wasn't a hat, and it wasn't a new map. Could it be a new class? A new layer to its microtransaction system? Gordon Freeman? Err, sorry about that last guess, I just really miss Half-Life...
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The second annual holiday-themed "Australian Christmas" update, features two retro-futuristic “Dr. Grordbort” class packs for the Engineer and Pyro, designed by Weta Workshop’s Greg Broadmore.

In addition to the class packs, the update will also ship 14 new holiday-themed weapons, hats and cosmetic items by the TF community’s item creators, using the Steam Workshop. “CP_Foundry,” a new five-cap control point map designed by Valve’s TF2 team, comes with 12 ma... [read more]

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
Fixed a client crash during demo playback
Fixed a SourceTV crash
Dedicated servers can now have both SourceTV and Replay enabled at once
"replay [config file]" and "+tv_enable 1" should be used to launch the server

Team Fortress 2
Added TF birthday replacement models for health kits and ammo packs
Added TF birthday Party Hat and Noisemaker
Fixed The Short Circuit attacking friendly projectiles
Fixed The Sho... [read more]

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
Added libgcc_s.so.1 to supply dependency for some Linux distributions that do not come with this file

Team Fortress 2
Added the Deus Ex promo items
Added a bell when the Sniper Rifle is fully charged
Toggled in the Adv. Options dialog
Fixed disguised Spies showing their critboost status
Fixed a replay render bug where .wav files did not get written for raw TGA/WAV export
Updated the localization files
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Jody syncs you up on the latest news for Fallout: New Vegas - Lonely Road, Steam trading, The HotSpot, and more!
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