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Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Renamed The Tamrielic Relic to The Dragonborn Helmet
  
• Updated The Original, The Dragonborn Helmet, The Anger, The Pip-Boy, and The Wingstick so they can be purchased/crafted/traded/found
  
• Updated the gamehaptics file
  
  • Added draw/recoil/reload/crit forces for The Original
    
• Updated the localization files
  

Have an insatiable desire for more replays? The aptly named TF2 Replay.com and TF2 Replays.com both focusing on posting your replays strictly from Team Fortress so you can get what you want when you want it.

There's a new Steam group for those interested in upping their 6v6 game. They offer a friendly and monitored environment where new players can play alongside experienced players with full voice support. Both North American and European groups are available. Visit their Steam group page for more details.

After watching this short, we're not only convinced that a live-action Team Fortress 2 can be done well, we also adamantly want it to happen. Like, bad. Hey AMC, you're taking a lot of risks these days, how 'bout adding another original series to the pile?

[Thanks, Micah!]

#teamfortress2 Corridor Digital's video "Sentry Sabotage" explores very well known themes of treachery within Team Fortress 2 but it does so with unbelievable execution. I knew how this would end before I finished it the first time and I've already watched it a dozen times more. More »

The internet’s appetite for dressing up as videogame characters and acting out the activities we usually play on screen is boundless, as is evidenced by this rather high-quality live action Team Fortress 2 video. It’s a familiar tale of sapping a sentry gun. The film was made by some chaps called Corridor Digital. Go watch, below.(more…)

File this under watch immediately. Corridor Digital released an impressive Team Fortress related short called "TF2: Sentry Sabotage."

The Free-2-Play Invitational Cup, featuring teams from Counter-Strike Source, Left 4 Dead 2, Brink, and Call of Duty 4, has their final match up on Sunday, August 7th at 19:00 BST / 20:00 CEST / 11:00 PDT / 14:00 EDT. Top team Epsilon Brink will face off against a team of Valve employees and a variety of internet celebrities. Robin Walker and Jon Lippincott of Valve will be joined by John 'TotalBiscuit' Bain, Richard 'Gonzo' Lewis from the press with the sultry voice of TotalBiscuit from CynicalBrit.com backing them up. The final two slots are represented by top players Fredrik 'TheSucker' Dahlberg and Magnus 'Macisum' Fiskum. More details and coverage can be found on Cadred.

It was way back on August 24th, 1996 that the first version of Team Fortress took its first feeble baby steps out into the world. At the time it only had five playable classes, no maps, and--believe it or not--no hats. There wasn't even a concept of teams yet. That's right, we didn't actually get teams into a game called Team Fortress until a couple of releases after the initial launch. (The next time someone says their game isn't ready to release yet because they're missing a core feature, you can helpfully point this out to them.)

What the initial version of TF did have, though, was a Soldier class wielding the original Quake's iconic weapon, the rocket launcher. Now, fifteen years later, thanks to Bethesda and id software you too can wield that same rocket launcher in TF2, original sound effects and all.

It ended up being surprisingly difficult to integrate the Quake rocket launcher into TF2, mainly because any time we started working on it, we'd get sidetracked by hours of reminiscing: about that first Quake game, about its impact on us all personally, and on Valve overall. When Quake celebrated its 15th birthday this past June 22nd, we realized just how damn many of us at Valve are here because of id software. Some of us were inspired by their games' technical prowess, and others by getting their first taste of game development thanks to Doom and Quake's revolutionary approach to user-generated content.

So, thanks id, for... well, everything.

Starting today, Steam is celebrating id and Bethesda's Quakecon with deals on their games. Sales will change daily from now until August 8th. Today's deals include discounted games, free-to-play Brink, and in-game specials for TF2. More »

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)

• Added a check to prevent kicking Replay and SourceTV clients from servers
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added new items for upcoming promotions
  
• Fixed a case where health overheal wasn't being applied when multiple healers were involved
  
• Fixed the new Gravelpit backgrounds using the wrong filename
  
• Updated the Mask of the Shaman
  
• Updated the localization files
  

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)

• Fix a crash bug during changelevel when the Steam client is unable to init
  
• Reduced the frequency of diagnostic messages for out-of-range positions and velocities
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added the Red Orchestra 2 promo items
  
• Fix a crash bug related to the Righteous Bison
  
• Fix a bug where the increased_maxplayers server tag was being set when the 25th internal player slot was added for replay
  
• Fixed a bug that caused team color paints to appear to be coming out of the wrong cans for the store icons
  
• Updated the main menu backgrounds to include Granary and Upward
  

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Added From Dust promotional content.
  
• Fixed a problem with the application of team-colored paints.
  
• Fixed Mac-only replay editor crash.
  
• Meet the Medic startup music added.
  
• Definitely did not add cheats for upcoming Free-2-Play Invitational Cup.
  

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed a damage calculation in the Mantreads on Linux server, which could cause a physics crash
  

Ashkan fired us an email with some info on a couple of upcoming matches:
We've got some exciting matches waiting for you! In the competitive community, there are only a handful of Grand Finals played each year, but this week, we happen to have three of them in two days! As you already know, we had UK and Germany duking it out in the ESL Country Championship Finals yesterday. Today, we have the ESL Finals between team SG-1 and team K1ck. We've got something for everyone though, as you can catch the CommFT European Highlander Finals today as well. Head over to VanillaTF2 for more info on that. Maybe even more noteworthy, the first Free-2-Play Invitational Cup – challenging top teams from other shooters to battle it out in TF2 – will be played today. We've got competitive teams from Counter-Strike Source, Left 4 Dead 2, Brink and Call of Duty 4, all meeting on the battlefield of Team Fortress 2 to try their luck in an exciting clash. The winner of this cup will go on to play a show match at a later date against a Valve/All-Star team joined by TotalBiscuit himself. Make sure you don’t miss it, check out Cadred for more information. Since a couple of us at Valve will soon be playing the winners of the Free-2-Play Invitational Cup, we've also started ramping up the amount of time we spend thinking about ways to cheat win creatively. In completely unrelated news, if you see any TF2 updates in the future that have no changelist, don't worry, there's absolutely nothing going on.

The WETA-designed Righteous Bison Indivisible Particle Smasher made a surprise appearance at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con and can be seen here vaporizing the unsuspecting opposition in Team Fortress 2 on PC!

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed a Mac client crash triggered after selecting a team
  
• Fixed a couple of replay issues
  
• Updated the localization files
  

Michelle put together a great set of cosplay photos featuring her and several friends as the Engineer (1, 2), Spy (1, 2), and the Scout's mother (1, 2). There's also this bonus photo to which one Red Spy is clearly much too close.

#dukenukem We're not done with Duke Nukem Forever. Gearbox Software has revealed the "Hail to the Icons Parody Pack," an add-on for the recently released Duke Nukem game, downloadable content that takes a few shots at games like Doom, Call of Duty and Team Fortress 2. More »

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2

• Corrected the damage ramp for the Cow Mangler 5000 and the Soda Popper
  
• Fixed a rare crash bug with the Demoman TFBot laying stickybomb traps
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause team-painted wearable gibs to show an incorrect color
  
• Fix memory leak when updating the item schema
  
• Fix an occasional crash on game exit
  
• Replay updates
  
  • Client
    
    • Added basic/rough render queue for internal use to increase replay output for relaunch trailer
      
    • Block files are now deleted on replay reconstruction (i.e. viewing), to conserve disk space
      
    • Unneeded block files are now cleaned up automatically on startup
      
  • Server
    
    • Fixed fileserver cleanup
      
    • Any time replay_fileserver_offload_hostname is modified, the corresponding IP is resolved and cached, if possible. This fixes a crash, as well as failed publishing due to "unresolved hostname" errors.
      
    • Added a fileserver IP lookup test to replay publish test
      
    • Setting replay_enable to 0 now halts recording and does cleanup automatically, the way replay_stoprecord does. This fixes a crash that would occur when replay_enable was set to 0 and a changelevel was executed.
      
  • Replay temp directories automatically cleared on startup on both client and server
    
  • Memory management improvements
    
  - Added ConVar demo_fov_override, which overrides the FOV during demo playback if the value is non-zero
  

A group of 38 talented community members have begun to lift the veil off their fine creation, the most elaborately crafted fake TF2 update we've seen yet: The Medieval Update. With over 70 new custom models you can download and try out in Medieval mode, there's got to be something in there for everyone. In fine TF2 update tradition, they're releasing the details over the next few days, so keep an eye on the page.

Dr Ether over at Ethercast fired us an email to let us know that he's finished his Meet the TF2 Voice Actors! playlist, containing 35 minutes of amazing footage covering the many roles that TF2's voice actors have held in the past. Note that there's some strong language in there, so you might want to avoid the Scout & Medic videos if that's not your cup of tea.

The ESL Nations Cup Grand Final will be played this week, with live shoutcasting in four languages. The UK team managed to beat out Spain to win the losers bracket, and are back for a rematch with Germany. Head over here for the details.
Good luck to both teams!

Tablecloth and Chaoughkimyero dropped us a line to show us their neat custom made Cow Mangler 5000. Check it out!

#teamfortress2 These aren't the first depictions of Team Fortress 2's (mostly) male protagonists as women. Won't be last, either. But it may well be the most adorable! More »

In case you missed it buried behind the Soldier's glorious mutton chops, Team Fortress 2's new weapons from Dr. Grordbort's Infallible Aether Oscillators were created in conjunction with WETA Workshop, the makers of Orcs, Na'vi and Prawns for most of the blockbuster movies of this generation.

WETA's Greg Broadmore designed Dr. Grordbort's Infallible Aether Oscillators, which include the Righteous Bison and Cow Mangler 5000, two new weapons in the Victory Pack. To better acquaint players with these stellar WETA weapons, Valve has posted a comic featuring the Soldier and WETA promises special promo coupons at its booth at San Diego Comic-Con. Just watch out for the cow pies.

#comiccon2011 Toy company NECA revealed at Comic-Con today that its range of merchandise based on the intellectual properties of Valve will start shipping in 2012. Oh, and they also let us know what they'll be! More »

The larger-than-life Victory Pack Soldier has been a major hit so far at the Weta booth during day one of Comic-Con 2011. If you're attending the show, stop by and check out the awesome collection Dr. Grordbort's replica space guns and ask for one of the special coupons that'll get you the Righteous Bison for FREE! Coupons are limited so get them while they last!

Well, that was quick. Only the other day, rockets were spotted in assorted Team Fortress 2 maps, and now Soldiers everywhere are tooled up with sci-fi weapons designed by the special-effects geniuses at WETA Workshop. (You may have seen their work in movies like Lord of the Rings, Avatar, King Kong, and about half the other blockbusters in recent years.) Read this comic to see their discovery, and visit the Mann Co. store to witness the might of Dr. Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators, and the inevitable hat that goes with them.

But, we hear you ask, what are Dr. Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators?

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