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Every Single Hat in Team Fortress 2, Worn by a Single Character: This is only a tiny snapshot of all forty-lebem-sebemty-thirteen TF2 hats that Spy has equipped, all at once, in a drawing by DeviantArt's AshleyLange. Trust me, the stack goes up way, way, higher than this. Can you identify them all? This guy tried.Read more...

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed the "Halloween 2013" tag overlapping with the "Sound Device" tag in the Steam Workshop publish UI

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed the "Halloween 2013" tag overlapping with the "Sound Device" tag in the Steam Workshop publish UI
  

It's just over a month until the scariest day of the year, but you'd never know it by looking at the TF2 Workshop. No, suddenly everybody's too cool to be so scared of Halloween that they're even scared of it 42 days before it happens. Well, gather round the campfire and let us tell you a story about somebody else who thought he wasn't scared of Halloween just because it wasn’t anywhere close to being Halloween. He was at his wife's office building for a Christmas party, and he thought he was in the clear, because that's like ten months away from Halloween, right?
Wrong. A whole team of ghosts took over the Christmas party, and he was caught so unprepared by how incredibly scary they were that his shoes flew off and he hid in an elevator shaft so the ghosts couldn't scare him anymore, but it turned out the ghosts were just after money.
That man was Bruce Willis in the haunted house classic Die Hard, and it should teach you a valuable lesson about showing a little advance respect for Halloween. And you can show that respect by designing and uploading scary workshop items for this year's upcoming Halloween event. We're only going to ship items marked with a "Halloween 2013" tag, so remember to tag your holiday-themed items when you submit them. (You can re-upload old Halloween items that weren't accepted last time and mark them with the "Halloween 2013" tag for reconsideration.)
Also remember that anything you submit with this tag will be restricted to Halloween and Full Moons. And because it's restricted to Halloween and Full Moons, get creative! The tonal restrictions we normally ask our Workshoppers to observe with TF2 items don't really apply to a holiday where wizards and bomb books regularly attack from glowing skull islands, so if there's anything crazy you've been itching to make, now's the time.
Lastly, don't forget to use the in-game tool, because we don't care how scary your items are, if they're not Gold Star certified, they're the wrong kind of scary—like the difference between being scared by a Wolfman and being scared by a Wolfman getting hit by a car while jaywalking across the street to scare you.

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Added a new tag "Halloween 2013" to the Steam Workshop publish UI
• Fixed the Flex target preview in the Steam Workshop item import tool
• Fixed The Professor's Pineapple not drawing correctly for players in DirectX8
• Updated the teamplay_round_win event to fill out the winreason and flagcaplimit fields
  
  Notes missed from Monday's update:
• Updated Sentry Busters in Mann vs. Machine mode to damage teammates when they explode
• Switched Windows clients to use SDL 2.0 for controller support which enables hot-plugging controllers and configuring them through Steam Big Picture settings

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Added a new tag "Halloween 2013" to the Steam Workshop publish UI
  
• Fixed the Flex target preview in the Steam Workshop item import tool
  
• Fixed The Professor's Pineapple not drawing correctly for players in DirectX8
  
• Updated the teamplay_round_win event to fill out the winreason and flagcaplimit fields
  
  
  
  
  Notes missed from Monday's update:
  
• Updated Sentry Busters in Mann vs. Machine mode to damage teammates when they explode
  
• Switched Windows clients to use SDL 2.0 for controller support which enables hot-plugging controllers and configuring them through Steam Big Picture settings
  

And here I was thinking I had the coolest Team Fortress 2 merch around.Read more...

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a noclip exploit related to dueling and coaching
• Fixed clients not being able to run on WindowsXP
• Fixed The Filamental displaying the burning material in DirectX8
• Fixed an exploit that allowed Strange counters to be incremented negatively
• Fixed The Crusader's Crossbow healing teammates with The Equalizer or The Escape Plan deployed
• Fixed The Expert's Ordnance, The Hibernating Bear, and The Medieval Medic item sets not listing their associated hats
• Updated The Sticky Jumper to only allow 2 active stickybombs at a time
• Updated The Rump-o'-Lantern
  • Fixed stock Medic not being able to equip it
  • Fixed not using the correct materials when equipped by the Medic

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a noclip exploit related to dueling and coaching
  
• Fixed clients not being able to run on WindowsXP
  
• Fixed The Filamental displaying the burning material in DirectX8
  
• Fixed an exploit that allowed Strange counters to be incremented negatively
  
• Fixed The Crusader's Crossbow healing teammates with The Equalizer or The Escape Plan deployed
  
• Fixed The Expert's Ordnance, The Hibernating Bear, and The Medieval Medic item sets not listing their associated hats
  
• Updated The Sticky Jumper to only allow 2 active stickybombs at a time
  
• Updated The Rump-o'-Lantern
  • Fixed stock Medic not being able to equip it
    
  • Fixed not using the correct materials when equipped by the Medic

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a client crash related to initializing the input system for the Mac version

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a client crash related to initializing the input system for the Mac version
  

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a client crash related to completing Mann vs. Machine missions

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a client crash related to completing Mann vs. Machine missions
  

Some of the Steam folks dropped by the TF offices this morning with some interesting news: They've just shipped a new feature they're calling Trade Offers. It's similar to regular trading, except you can propose which items will get traded. Whoever you're trading with can then choose to accept or decline your offer, or make a potentially interesting counter-offer.

The best part is, you don't even both have to be online at the same time now. You can make trades while you sleep! While you're having dinner! Even while you're going to the bathroom. All cards on the table here, pretty much the entire blog post up until this sentence was a preamble to us getting to tell you that you can trade TF items while going to the bathroom. Move over, reading a magazine! Take a hike, preparing dinner!

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Added the ability to double-click backpack items to use them in Chemistry Sets
• Fixed clients not always seeing a warning about using not-tradable items in Chemistry Sets
• Fixed not-tradable Strangifiers not applying the not-tradable status to the item they are used on
• Fixed the Gunslinger's taunt kill not counting towards taunt kills on a Strange Gunslinger
• Removed showing the Marked For Death icon over the head of the local player
• Fixed seeing stretched polygons in the HUD 3D Character

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Added the ability to double-click backpack items to use them in Chemistry Sets
  
• Fixed clients not always seeing a warning about using not-tradable items in Chemistry Sets
  
• Fixed not-tradable Strangifiers not applying the not-tradable status to the item they are used on
  
• Fixed the Gunslinger's taunt kill not counting towards taunt kills on a Strange Gunslinger
  
• Removed showing the Marked For Death icon over the head of the local player
  
• Fixed seeing stretched polygons in the HUD 3D Character
  

Well, here's about the best birthday present a boy could wish for.Read more...

Given the quality of Valve's own "Meet The..." shorts for Team Fortress 2, it's natural to expect/pray for the company to make a movie based on the popular shooter. One look at this clip, though, and you'll see they won't ever need to.Read more...

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed the Linux dedicated server failing to run on older Linux versions
• Fixed the HUD 3D Character causing other HUD items to sometimes disappear
• Fixed a client HUD crash when Spies disguise as a class that has a non-active weapon like the Chargin' Targe
• Fixed an outdated tip for the Quick-Fix
• Fixed a shadow bug for the Warrior's Spirit

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed the Linux dedicated server failing to run on older Linux versions
  
• Fixed the HUD 3D Character causing other HUD items to sometimes disappear
  
• Fixed a client HUD crash when Spies disguise as a class that has a non-active weapon like the Chargin' Targe
  
• Fixed an outdated tip for the Quick-Fix
  
• Fixed a shadow bug for the Warrior's Spirit
  

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a client crash caused by using custom HUD files

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a client crash caused by using custom HUD files
  

Hey, everybody! We wrote a comic! It’s full-sized, it stars the whole cast of the TF2niverse, and at least one person dies in it! It’s the first issue of an ongoing six-part series, set to come out bi-monthly, and you can read it here.


This is the first time we’re releasing a comic that isn’t tied to an impending update. Why are we doing this? Because sometimes reading is its own reward. Not most of the time, obviously. But we think you’ll agree this comic series deserves to join the menu at the Olive Garden, Fitzscott Gerald’s The Great Greatsby, and the beginning part of a jet-ski manual that tells you how to start the jet-ski as one of the three or four things humanity has produced that’s actually worth reading.
You are about to embark a word-packed adventure. And what better way to send you off than with this famous quote about the joys and perils of reading?

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• - Added Chemistry Sets as a bonus drop. Chemistry Sets are recipe items that have varying inputs and varying outputs. You can complete a Chemistry Set by fulfilling all of its inputs, which will then give you the items it has listed in its outputs.
• - The in-game player status panel has been updated to show an animated image of your character with their current loadout
  • - Can be disabled in Advanced Options
• - Added Romevision sharing: anyone playing Mann vs. Machine on the same server with an owner of the Hardy Laurel can now opt-in to Romevision
  • - Manage your Romevision preference in the Advanced Options dialog
• - Fixed a bug that would prevent Jarate and Mad Milk from applying to all targets within range
• - Fixed a bug that would cause the Marked For Death icon to stay in the world after the owning player died
• - Fixed a bug that would allow Spies to exploit the Kunai's higher overheal limit
• - Fixed a bug that prevented the Medigun's "Share Power Ups" upgrade from working correctly in Mann vs. Machine mode
• - Fixed a bug that would cause the last few characters of text to be lost when copying text from input fields
• - Fixed a client sv_cheats exploit related to the commentary dialog
• - Fixed a problem that would cause the shotgun shell model to appear incorrectly third-person when using the Family Business
• - Improved bot pathing behavior around ramps
• - Bots can now reflect energy-based projectiles
• - Fixed incorrect alpha in the backpack images for the Valley Forge and the Founding Father
• - The Foppish Physician and the Distinguished Rogue are now paintable and are team-colored by default
• - Added server log entries for jarate_attack and milk_attack when using Jarate, Mad Milk, or the Sydney Sleeper
• - Fixed using an incorrect path for downloaded custom player sounds
• - Fixed duplicate support/mission icons in the Mann vs. Machine HUD
• - Don't allow players without admin access on the server to use the various entity-creating commands to create point_servercommand entities
• - Updated cp_egypt_final
  • - Fixed players building inside of Blu's first spawn
• - Updated cp_manor_event
  • - Fixed players building in rafters
• - Updated cp_mountainlab
  • - Fixed clip brush exploit above hallway leading toward final cap
  • - Fixed exploit where players could be trapped in small space near final cap using teleporters
• - Updated plr_hightower
  • - Added nobuild to cliff bottom to prevent engineers building in the kill volume
• - Updated the localization files

It's a special day today, folks—and that's because just four thousand minutes ago on this day, Team Fortress turned 17 years old! (We were going to give you a list of other things that turned 17 this year, but it turns out when you google "17 year old celebrities" at work, someone from HR comes by and tells you the police want to talk to you.)


Anyway, to celebrate our right-on-time, certainly-wasn't-on-August-24th birthday, we're pushing out an update! Just like last year, we're handing out Birthday Party Hats, which you can equip all year round, and Birthday Noise Makers, which can only be used over the next couple of days.
In non-birthday-related update news, we've also added something mysterious called Chemistry Sets for you curious chemists out there, and Romevision sharing, so anybody playing Mann vs. Machine on the same server with an owner of the Hardy Laurel can opt in. All that plus the usual bug fixes and map updates.
All we ask in return is that we all pretend it's August 24th. Because that definitely is the date that today is.

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• - Added Chemistry Sets as a bonus drop. Chemistry Sets are recipe items that have varying inputs and varying outputs. You can complete a Chemistry Set by fulfilling all of its inputs, which will then give you the items it has listed in its outputs.
  
• - The in-game player status panel has been updated to show an animated image of your character with their current loadout
  • - Can be disabled in Advanced Options
• - Added Romevision sharing: anyone playing Mann vs. Machine on the same server with an owner of the Hardy Laurel can now opt-in to Romevision
  • - Manage your Romevision preference in the Advanced Options dialog
• - Fixed a bug that would prevent Jarate and Mad Milk from applying to all targets within range
  
• - Fixed a bug that would cause the Marked For Death icon to stay in the world after the owning player died
  
• - Fixed a bug that would allow Spies to exploit the Kunai's higher overheal limit
  
• - Fixed a bug that prevented the Medigun's "Share Power Ups" upgrade from working correctly in Mann vs. Machine mode
  
• - Fixed a bug that would cause the last few characters of text to be lost when copying text from input fields
  
• - Fixed a client sv_cheats exploit related to the commentary dialog
  
• - Fixed a problem that would cause the shotgun shell model to appear incorrectly third-person when using the Family Business
  
• - Improved bot pathing behavior around ramps
  
• - Bots can now reflect energy-based projectiles
  
• - Fixed incorrect alpha in the backpack images for the Valley Forge and the Founding Father
  
• - The Foppish Physician and the Distinguished Rogue are now paintable and are team-colored by default
  
• - Added server log entries for jarate_attack and milk_attack when using Jarate, Mad Milk, or the Sydney Sleeper
  
• - Fixed using an incorrect path for downloaded custom player sounds
  
• - Fixed duplicate support/mission icons in the Mann vs. Machine HUD
  
• - Don't allow players without admin access on the server to use the various entity-creating commands to create point_servercommand entities
  
• - Updated cp_egypt_final
  • - Fixed players building inside of Blu's first spawn
• - Updated cp_manor_event
  • - Fixed players building in rafters
• - Updated cp_mountainlab
  • - Fixed clip brush exploit above hallway leading toward final cap
    
  • - Fixed exploit where players could be trapped in small space near final cap using teleporters
• - Updated plr_hightower
  • - Added nobuild to cliff bottom to prevent engineers building in the kill volume
• - Updated the localization files
  

The next big Multiplay LAN, Insomnia 49, takes place August 23-25 in Telford, England. Top teams from Europe will be joined by community-funded North American and Australian teams to fight in a 6v6 cup and Highlander 9v9 tournament.
This years i49 features a prize pool of more than $7,000. With over 420 Team Fortress 2 players attending, i49 is one of the largest competitive Team Fortress 2 events of the year!
Don't miss the Grand Finale on Sunday, August 25th, at 11 AM Eastern time (4 PM England). The matches will be covered by VanillaTV, (with added content on their YouTube channel), and Kritzcast throughout the weekend.

You don't need to read a history book to know that Rome was a thriving empire bent on conquest, or a rich fantasy world populated by minotaurs, cyclopses and hobbits. Either way, you don't need a fancy history degree to know it was probably one of those.


You also don't need to go to four years of BS history school to get an all-class laurel wreath. You just need to pre-purchase Total War: Rome II. Once you get the wreath, try equipping it in a game of Mann vs. Machine to watch history come alive with an authentic Rome-Bot Invasion. You don't have to be a fat know-nothing history professor to figure out that we painstakingly researched every single aspect of these Ancient Roman robots for 100% historical accuracy, from going to the library only to find it closed to remembering stuff about that trip we took to Italy once, which is probably close to Rome.
So pre-purchase Total War: Rome II today to get your laurel, and sock it to those history majors who think they know more about Ancient Rome history than you just because you dropped out of their stupid history college after one semester and they got a smelly diploma.

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Added Total War: Rome II "Romevision" promo for Mann vs. Machine mode
• Updated the localization files

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Added Total War: Rome II "Romevision" promo for Mann vs. Machine mode
  
• Updated the localization files