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TF2 Classless Update Day Three: New Maps

Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest online shooters out there, thanks to the solid support that the team from Valve gave to the players of the cartoon-style game. From various patches to big content updates, the developers did a fine job of supporting the title.Now, with the most recent update, a break from the nor...

14 August 2009
03:19 GMT

TF2 Classless Update Day Two: New Mode and Maps

Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest online shooters out there, owning much of its established fan base to the fact that new content is being released periodically, managing to keep the experience fresh and exciting for players. But while all of the other updates released so far were centered on one or more classes...

13 August 2009
03:10 GMT

TF2 Classless Update Day One: New Hats and a Map

Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest online games out there, managing to win over fans with its distinct art style, tongue-in-cheek approach to weaponry and gameplay and for the top-notch online connectivity. Also, the effort of creating new content on the part of the team at Valve made plenty of players realize ju...

12 August 2009
05:19 GMT

Valve Begins Team Fortress 2 Beta Testing for Competitive Matches

Valve is one of the biggest companies involved in gaming, particularly in the segment dedicated to the PC platform. Seeing as how its games were the basis for many multiplayer titles, like Counter Strike, the competitive side of gaming also preoccupied the game developer. One of its most successful titles and the on...

5 August 2009
11:01 GMT

Valve Is Thinking About Replacing the Item Drop System in TF2

Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest multiplayer-only video games, as the team from Valve spent quite some time balancing it out and delivering a great and varied first person shooter experience to players all around the world. The support from the team was even more evident when they announced various content upda...

29 July 2009
03:17 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Helps Map Makers

Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest online games out there, having gained a huge number of fans thanks to its distinct gameplay and wide variety of character classes that are available for players around the world. But another distinct feature that the Valve-developed game has is the fact that it is running on the...

16 June 2009
02:21 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Gets Back Achievement-Based Unlocking System

Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest online first person shooters out there, largely because the team at Valve has put together a very solid and varied experience that caters to the tastes of any gamer.With the latest Spy and Sniper update, the development team took a great risk and dropped the old unlocking system ...

1 June 2009
02:56 GMT

PC Sales Charts – Team Fortress 2 Edition

The PC platform hasn't been going through the best of times in recent years, but it is still continuing to sell quite a lot of games, even though piracy is a big problem for it. In order to see just what titles are selling and which aren't, here is our weekly PC Sales Charts, with data from the NPD Group fo...

27 May 2009
11:01 GMT

Valve Answers Questions About New Item Drop System

Team Fortress 2 has been in the media spotlight these past few weeks as the latest and biggest update has appeared for it, together with a free extended weekend in which players could experience the game free of charge and buy it at a lower price. But with all of the new features for the Sniper and the Spy classes, ...

26 May 2009
15:01 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Gets Free “Extended” Weekend and 50% Discount

Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest online first-person shooters out there, owing much of its popularity to the team at Valve, which offered fans a great product whose content kept changing from month to month thanks to new updates and content add-ons. The last two weeks were filled with TF2 announcements, as the ...

22 May 2009
03:21 GMT

TF2 Sniper Update Day 7: The Jarate and Achievements

Team Fortress 2 has become one of the most popular online shooters available these days thanks to its wide variety of choices in regard to gameplay and to the many updates that the team at Valve implemented. While most of them were essential to the gameplay, that didn't stop the developers from having some fun a...

21 May 2009
03:03 GMT

TF2 Spy Update Day 6: The Ambassador Hand Cannon

Valve created one of the most popular online first-person shooters in the form of Team Fortress 2 because it offered players a wide variety of customization options and character classes in order to create specific experiences for any type of gamer. The newest update scheduled to arrive for the game will bring a lot...

20 May 2009
03:01 GMT

TF2 Spy Update Day 5: New Achievements Detailed

Team Fortress 2 is one of the most popular online first-person shooters out there, thanks to the many possibilities it offers to players and the wide variety of character classes, each with its own attributes and drawbacks, available to all users from the beginning of the game. The title has been in the spotlight of...

19 May 2009
03:01 GMT

TF2 Gets Dual Update, Spy Receives New Weapons and Video

Team Fortress 2 is one of the most popular online games currently available on the market, largely due to the fact that the team at Valve has approached online first-person shooters in a very tongue-in-cheek manner, revealing a lot of amusing new trinkets for the many classes of the game. Last week we were shown som...

18 May 2009
03:21 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Sniper Update Day 3: The Razorback Shield

Team Fortress 2 is one of the most popular online games currently available on the market, largely due to the fact that the team at Valve put a lot of effort in developing it and offered many different experiences to all the gamers who are playing it right now. Part of these new experiences are the periodic updates ...

15 May 2009
03:03 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Sniper Update Day 2: New Mode and Maps

Team Fortress 2 is one of the most popular online shooters, largely due to the big number of opportunities and character classes for each type of gamer. From the big Heavy to the silent Spy or the fast Scout, every player can find one character class to enjoy. As always, the team at TF2 is working hard on updates to...

14 May 2009
03:11 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Sniper Update Day 1: The Huntsman

Team Fortress 2 is one of the most popular online first-person shooters in recent years, managing to combine the rock-solid multiplayer of almost any game made by Valve with a wide variety of character classes, each with its own abilities, traits and weaknesses. The team at Valve has made a habit out of implementing...

13 May 2009
02:58 GMT

Madden NFL 10 Gets Cartoon Art on the Nintendo Wii

When Peter Moore, the head of EA Sports, began talking about the upcoming Madden NFL 10, he emphasized the new look of the game, with a graphics and movement engine set to deliver a photo realistic experience.Well, he seems to have forgotten to mention that the new engine would only be coming to the Xbox 360 and the ...

30 April 2009
19:01 GMT

Speculation: Team Fortress 2 Update Prepares Game for Hats

Valve has released a new update for its multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2, set to offer some small changes to gameplay while also preparing the game for an even bigger update, which should come soon, tweaking the way all the classes in the game behave.Some of the direct consequences are that players can now permane...

22 April 2009
07:24 GMT

The Sniper Gets the Next Team Fortress 2 Class Update

Online games are extremely popular on the PC as they usually don't require a lot of resources and you can play them alongside your family and friends. Team Fortress 2 is a multiplayer-only title released by Valve, which has taken a very unique tongue-in-cheek approach to online shooters, representing classes wit...

3 April 2009
12:21 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Receives Patch for Multi-Core Processors

PC gaming has one big problem as opposed to consoles, due to the wide variety of components and hardware configurations that are used by gamers across the world. That is why developers who create games for the PC need to take into consideration a base level of the PC and then improve the title for people who have mor...

19 March 2009
03:20 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Receives New Patch, Spies Can Side Stab Again

Online games are becoming more and more attractive for a lot of gamers because they not only offer a great dose of entertainment, but also provide a backdrop for social interaction with people who share the same hobbies, and who are also inclined to proclaim their uniqueness. That is why Team Fortress 2 has become v...

6 March 2009
03:12 GMT

Here Are the New Team Fortress 2 Scout Achievements

Online games are becoming very popular these days because they offer players great experiences, which they can enjoy at the same time with their friends. They also give you the chance to partake in fun activities with people who share hobbies, thus allowing you to make new friends. A very popular online shooter is T...

26 February 2009
13:01 GMT

Team Fortress 2's Scout Update Unveiled and Dissected

Team Fortress 2 is currently one of the most popular online first-person shooters out there, largely due to the fact that it has a big user community, a variety of classes from which to choose and, most importantly, enjoys the full support of the Valve team in terms of patches, updates and new content. Part of this ...

25 February 2009
16:41 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Punishes Cheaters

Games can be quite difficult sometimes, as a lot of developers believe that their target audience is already one filled with experienced players that already have reflexes and know how to get past certain obstacles. But because some gamers lack the necessary skill or, far worse, don't want to actually live the t...

23 February 2009
03:03 GMT

Weekend Reading: Achievements, Command Lines and Cheaters

I don't fully understand Achievements (or Trophies, for that matter). I get what companies like Microsoft and Sony are trying to do with them: make gamers interested in playing and replaying a game to get those elusive gamer points and the bragging rights that come with them. I do understand why games sporting n...

14 February 2009
06:41 GMT

Scout Update Almost Done, Team Fortress 2 Patch Coming Today

Valve has been one busy developer lately, with the release of Left 4 Dead, its zombie killing post apocalyptic title, and with various improvements added to Steam. So, unfortunately for some, major updates for Team Fortress 2, the multiplayer game that shipped originally as part of The Orange Box, have been put on th...

29 January 2009
16:31 GMT

Valve Announces Team Fortress 2 Changes

Valve has put up a blog entry detailing its plans regarding future developments for Team Fortress 2. There are some changes coming soon, in the following days, and a bigger update planned for early 2009.The upcoming changes are not huge at all. Engineers will not be able to build up both Teleporters and Dispensers to...

12 December 2008
12:41 GMT

Left 4 Dead Demo Teases with New Team Fortress 2 Class

Left 4 Dead is set to be a very successful title, largely due to the fact that one of the most popular game developers on the market, Valve, is behind it. The company is very popular with the gamer community mainly because it endorses and publishes modifications made to its games by different types of people.The demo...

17 November 2008
11:01 GMT

Left 4 Dead Is Responsible for HL2 Episode Three Lateness

Half Life 2 is one of the most compelling games ever made; it broke the molds of conventional shooters and gave the player a unique environment in which to act through a variety of ways. When Valve, the developer and publisher of the game, announced that it would release episodic content for the title, a lot of peop...

21 October 2008
02:44 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Updates Not Coming to the PS3

Valve, through the voice of Gabe Newell, has confirmed that it does not plan to deliver any content patch for the PlayStation 3 version of Team Fortress 2.The videogame, which was initially included in The Orange Box, was launched for the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. But the PS3 version of the game was not...

26 September 2008
18:41 GMT

The Heavy in Team Fortress 2 Is Getting an Update

After Team Fortress 2 proved to be one of the biggest successes of 2007 as far as multiplayer shooters are concerned, Valve has begun to offer updates for the game, focusing on what could be called "character development". Instead of focusing on only providing new maps and gameplay tweaks, the guys over at Valve have...

9 July 2008
18:11 GMT

Pyro Update for Team Fortress 2 Detailed

Valve is planning to roll out a Pyro update and then hold a free gaming weekend to celebrate all of this. So, read on to see what's new, and then jump into Team Fortress 2 to enjoy the adrenalin-pumping action.The Pyro, armed with his trusty flamethrower and his rather weird face mask, is one of the characters f...

19 June 2008
10:07 GMT

Valve Reveals the Team Fortress 2 Medic Weapons

With some extra (and eagerly anticipated) content to be released for Team Fortress 2, it seems natural that Valve has decided to give us the final details regarding the new unlockable weapons for the medic (something that will hopefully convince more people to play this character since, as you probably know, the TF2 ...

16 April 2008
03:30 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Receives Massive Overhaul

The Orange Box's hit Team Fortress 2 is about to receive some major and rather unexpected changes, such as unlockable weapons, an all-new game mode and even class changes. Valve's game is a sequel to the original Quake mod and it was first announced 10 years ago (yes, you can call it Duke Nukem Forever'...

24 January 2008
04:37 GMT

How to Play Half-Life 2 on Ubuntu

Who says you can't play games on Linux? Of course you can! Well... not all of them, but at least some of the nicer ones, such as Half-Life 2, Counter Strike or Unreal Tournament. Today's guide will teach you, step-by-step, how to install and play Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode T...

24 December 2007
23:18 GMT

Gamers Are Still Waiting to Play Team Fortress 2

Just last week, Valve went public announcing that whoever pre-orders their copy of Half Life: The Orange Box (Half-life 2: Episode One, Half Life 2: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal and 10 levels of Peggle Extreme) would get access to the Team Fortress 2 Beta launching September 17th. Which... didn't happen, s...

20 September 2007
04:56 GMT

Valve's 'Afraid' of PS3 Online - Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 is the long-anticipated sequel to the original Team Fortress mod for Quake. It's a Valve game and we know how much they like making multiplayer team-based first-person shooters with strategy elements. The game has been through various concepts and designs, yet it's finally launching on three...

29 March 2007
04:00 GMT


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