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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

• Added a checkbox to the Advanced Options dialog that will hide the HUD during freezecam screenshots
  
• Added a checkbox to the Backpack dialog that will colorize items based on their quality
  
• Fixed a server crash exploit caused by invalid player viewangles
  
• Updated the color used for Strange quality items so it doesn't conflict with the color used for Unique quality items
  

EndOfReality.net, eXtelevision.com and PubComp.com are putting together "Communties vs Pros II!" The North American team, The Experiment, will pit six players against a hand picked community team of nine. The action starts September 17 2011 at 9PM EST. Need more convincing?

When we switched the health packs in game to cakes for our birthday, we thought they looked delicious. Someone agreed.

#valve Valve Software's Chet Faliszek recently gave me a tour of his company's Belleveue headquarters, a final act of kindness during a visit in which Chet also let me play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and eat catered tacos. More »

CommunityFortress.com proudly presents the Top 10 Plays of TF2 for the month of July 2011. Video produced by LuckyLuke and hosted by eXtine.

TF2Killcams.com is a website dedicated to things worth a thousand words but only dedicates a few short ones to them. To celebrate their 1000th post they're holding a kill cam contest! Details for the contest are located here. If having a chuckle at the unfortunate demise of the Scout isn't enough they've also upped the ante with prizes!

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)

• Fixed snd_restart breaking voice recording
  
• Fixed a rare crash creating a listen server
  

Team Fortress 2

• Item found notifications now correctly show up in chat
  
• Added Tropico 4 promotional content
  
• Added BleedPlayer input on player for mappers
  
• Updated localization files
  
• GetSchema WebAPI changes
  
  • Added "kill_eater_score_types"
    
  • Added "account_info" for attrbutes where the value is a Steam account ID
    
  • Added support for Romanian, Turkey, and Hungarian (ro, tr, and hu respectively)
    

Now that you've been vaporizing your compadres Grordbort-style in Team Fortress 2 with your Cow Mangler and your Righteous Bison for a while, perhaps you're ready to handle a REAL Righteous Bison made of REAL atoms.

That's right. We've instructed our retail brethren at Weta to offer you $20 USD off a Righteous Bison when you flaunt the secret case sensitive code: TF2BISON4REAL during the options phase of the checkout process.

The offer stands for one week. Get a Bison - it puts hair on your chest! *

*Metaphorically! Actual hair growth is a rare side-effect experienced mainly among pre-pubescent handlers.

Oh, I guess this is just about expired, but there’s still time to get on Team Fortress 2 and receive your party bag for the 15 year birthday hurrah of Team Fortress. Yes, it is that long since the class-based mod originally appeared, spawning an entire sub-genre of FPS, and some of the most popular games of all time. If you log into TF2 before the 24 hours expires (I am not quite sure how long is left) you will get a party hat (obviously), a noise-maker, and a free cake (remodelled health pack). Mmm, virtual.

#teamfortress2 Because of its popularity, many think Team Fortress 2 sprang to life fully formed without precedent, like Athena from the forehead of Zeus. Or Leonard Part VI. It in fact is a series, one that is now 15 years old. More »

This morning Robin Walker threw a birthday party and nobody came. Before you start feeling sorry for him, though, keep in mind he didn't actually invite anybody. He just keeps emailing the TF team pictures of himself in his backyard - jumping around in an inflatable jungle gym he rented, forcing a hired clown to make him balloon animals, and unwrapping gifts he bought himself.

The community continually comes together for great things and this is no exception. A Team Fortress player known as Plumpkins organized a charity drive for Child's Play. Together with several other community members they gathered up a bunch of items from Team Fortress and auctioned them off. When the dust settled, a total of $700 was raised for Child's Play! Our hat is tipped to all of you.

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 Short Circuit being hidden when the Engineer taunts
  
• Fixed an infinite crits exploit using The Diamondback
  
• Fixed The Widowmaker not returning the correct amount of ammo when multiple targets are hit
  
• Fixed supply closets regenerating players while they are taunting
  
• Fixed the Select Style UI text overlapping the image of the model
  
• Fixed the sunbeams hat effect
  
• Updated the localization files
  
• Updated the gamehaptics file:
  
  • Added draw/recoil forces for The Widowmaker, The Short Circuit, The Diamondback, and The Machina
    
  • Added crit fire force for The Widowmaker and The Diamondback
    
  • Refined reload force for Flare Gun/Detonator
    
• Bot changes:
  
  • Fixed crash with Demoman
  • bots trying to detonate stickybombs that had already been destroyed
    
  • Added tf_bot_kill console command (syntax identical to tf_bot_kick)
    
  • Bots obey melee only mode a bit better
    
  • Added func_nav_avoid to allow map creators control over where bots "like" to go
    
  • Fixed issue with Demoman bot reloading between each stickybomb he fired, causing him to be very slow at setting traps/destroying sentries
    
  • Bots never taunt if carrying the flag now
    
  • Aiming logic for Huntsman sniper bots
    
  • Sniper bots prioritize enemy snipers more aggressively, as well as enemy engineers now
    
  • Improved Demoman bot sentry gun sticky bombing
    
  • Bots will no longer try to use health entities assigned to the enemy team
    
  • Added simplistic behaviors for Chargin' Targe, and various consumables (Bonk drink, sandvich, etc)
    
  • Medic
  • bots stay a bit closer to their patient now
    
  • Sniper
  • bots go after very nearby enemies with their melee weapon now
    
  • Added func_tfbot_hint entity to allow map creators to tell sniper bots good places to lurk
    
  • Sniper
  • bots opportunistically fire on viable targets they encounter while on the way to their desired lurking spot
    
  • Spy
  • bots are more aggressive about backstabbing an engineer before sapping his nest now
    

VanillaTF2.org posted an article listing some of the 35 teams making an appearance at Multiplay's i43 TF2 tournament which includes Dignitas, TCM, Epsilon, and Infused.Tt. These teams will be competing for a minimum prize pot of £5,000! Further details are available on the Multiplay website.

The VanillaTV team is also going to be in attendance and will be covering and livecasting as many of the matches as possible from August 26 through 29.

KritzKast has relaunched their website today and as an added bonus there's a competition to celebrate! KritzKast will be interviewing Josue Pereria, the creator of the webcomic, NerfNow. KritzKast is asking you to help come up with questions for him to win a Lo-Fi and a chance to get your very own NerfNow comic.

#dota No doubt in honor of this weekend's DOTA 2 International Championship, Valve is now offering there new DOTA 2 hats in Team Fortress 2. More »

The following is a paid advertisement from the Advocates for Human Purity.
Friends, you've seen them at the docks, using their robotic limbs to put our organic brothers out of work. You've seen them at the bars, throwing their cyber-hootenannies, what with all the oil-drinking contests and their literal Electric Slide. That's right, we're talking about cyborgs -- and they've just gone too far.

Because now, they've injected their influence into a first-person shooter, Team Fortress 2. This otherwise innocuous game, full of hardworking organics, is being sullied with cybernetic arms, futuristic weapons like the "Machina" rifle and electric sunglasses.

Sure, they say it's all a harmless nod to Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but you know the truth: They've taken over your life, and now they're targeting your children (and your 20-something son who moved back in while he waits for his photography career to take off).

Friends, you were stone cold silent when they got their hands on Steve Austin, you were beary quiet when Teddy Ruxpin growled at your toddlers.

Isn't it time you spoke up?

[Thanks, Micah]

#deusex Make that Dues Ex themed guns and accessories, eight in all. More »

Younger TF2 fans might not understand the significance of the upcoming game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. For those of you who weren't around during gaming's golden age, it's the long-awaited sequel to the cult classic dystopian shooter Revolution X, starring and programmed by Aerosmith. You'll once again play as Brad "The Deuce" Whitford. Part human Aerosmith bass player. Part robot. ALL trouble.

"Wow! Can you let me play it now?" you ask. Dream On, Aerosmith fan. The game's not due for a week. (Joe Perry's still coding some shaders.)

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
  

Boneyard Productions has released their latest movie covering the final 8 teams in the ETFL Highlander Challenge. They had over 800 teams and 10,000 players enter the competition this season and with a new season soon to be announced, hopefully even more will be encouraged to join the fray.

i-Series (i43 specifically) is expected to draw up to 2700 gamers in the UK for a massive LAN event August 26th - 29th. With what is likely to be the UK's biggest LAN event of the year, they're throwing a Team Fortress 2 tournament into the mix! Check out the i-Series website for further details.

The second ETF2L Ultiduo Cup is well into its season. The finals are expected to be played August 24th 19:00 - 12:00 CEST. VanillaTV plans on broadcasting the matches.

Check out this Flickr stream that features some creative use of Lego blocks to represent all the classes of Team Fortress.

#teamfortress More »

#teamfortress2 It's easy to take a LEGO minifig and paint it to look like something. What's harder is taking a ton of actual LEGO bricks and turning them into the likeness of a range of cartoon video game characters. More »

CEVO has announced the opening of registration for the next season of Team Fortress 2. There are two divisions, Open and Main, in 6v6 format. Both divisions are free. For registration information visit their official news posting. Registration ends September 4.

Have you ever had a leftover or gifted game sitting around your hard drive, and wished to yourself, "Man, I sure do wish I could trade this to a friend for a sweet in-game item in Team Fortress 2!"? Then friends, does Valve ever have a sweet new offer for you!

Today marks the launch of the Steam Trading beta, a new system within the Steam client that allows users to trade everything from random in-game items to full games with each other at the drop of the hat. Unless of course the thing you're trading is a hat. Then you probably shouldn't drop that.

This seems fair.

Users can opt in by going to their settings tab and selecting the "opt into Steam Trading beta" option. Once you're in, anyone on your friends list that has also opted in, or anyone residing within a group chat you happen to be in. Currently, the only title that supports in-game item trading is Team Fortress 2, but Portal 2 is expected to receive support next, and Valve aims to add support to several third-party titles as well. As for full games, any game that has been gifted to you, or came as part of a package release as an extra copy can be traded away, meaning it's now easier to regift than ever before.

The idea of trading digital copies of games does present an interesting theory. While the current scope of Steam Trading is limited to games that haven't been opened on a users' PC, what's to stop this concept from morphing into a method of online used game sales? Yes, issues like install keys, DRM, and whatever else probably make that a difficult prospect beyond the scope of games purchased within the Steam client, but even still, it's an interesting concept to think about.

Regardless, that's probably a ways off, if it ever happens at all. Right now, you'll just have to stick to trading hats for unwanted gifted copies of AquaNox 2: Revelation. Seriously, if anyone wants this copy of AquaNox 2, I will just give it to you. I sincerely have no idea how my dad even found that thing on Steam, let alone thought I would want it.

It may still be known officially as "Steam," but after this week's announcement of the Steam Trading beta, we're referring to the service's virtual world as "Bartertown." As of today, Steam users can opt-in to the "Steam Trading" beta program, giving them the opportunity to trade Team Fortress 2 items and Steam gifts with other Steam users.

For now, the only game that supports the trading of items is Team Fortress 2, but Valve says support for Portal 2 will arrive "reasonably soon," and that it plans on offering support for "several third-party games in the next few months." Interested parties can participate by simply heading into the Steam client settings and selecting the option to opt-in to the Steam Trading beta. As participants ourselves, for the next 12 hours we'll be accepting any and all copies of full games for a very special, one-of-a-kind Team Fortress 2 hat, hand-selected by the Joystiq staff member of your choice*.

*Choice is limited to Joystiq staff members available at time of trade. Joystiq reserves the right to refuse choice based on a variety of factors, but mostly whim.

As we all know, Jonas Salk invented money in 1955 so he would have a way to earn a living from his polio vaccine. Before that, people just traded things they found for things that other people had found. So you might "sell" somebody a scrap of carpet, say, in exchange for an old bottle. It was a perfect system with only one drawback: people spent their lives bartering for piles of garbage before dying of polio.