New Releases Of Awesome

TF2 continues to get more awesome.

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Awhile back Valve and Adult Swim started a colab during “Pyromania”. If you signed up for Adult Swim’s newsletter you would get a genuine Robot Chicken hat. Then later on there was a TF2 sketch on Robot Chicken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qdu_ZXHS-c

But it doesn’t end there. Today at the TF2 blog and Adult Swim it’s been announced that some Adult Swim items will be making an appearance in a future update.

I’ve never purchased anything from the Mannco store, but this is tempting. 😀 It would also be nice to see the scouts as Hank and Dean, Dr Weird for the Engie, Harvey Birdman for the spy, Black Dynamite for the Demo and… I could take an entire day naming them off!

Steam to release it’s own console like PC

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With BIG PICTURE getting good reception. Valve will be making their own console style PC. 😀

“Well certainly our hardware will be a very controlled environment,” he said. “If you want more flexibility, you can always buy a more general purpose PC. For people who want a more turnkey solution, that’s what some people are really gonna want for their living room.

It’s like a console but minus the walled garden. 😀

Source Games On Linux? Yes please!

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Valve has put yet another blog together. This time for linux.

Last year, a team was put together to get Steam and Valve games to work in Linux. So far they have done a good job getting Left 4 Dead 2 to work natively with U’buntu.

“We’ll be posting more information about those projects (and others) on a regular basis. Since this is a new effort for the team, we’d love to hear your opinions about the blog so shoot us an email. We also encourage you to leave comments and ideas for future postings. We want this to be a community of game developers, communicating with each other and talking about current efforts and future efforts in a powerfully creative environment.”

For more information check out their official blog! Because I can’t be arsed to quote the entire thing.

Meet The Pyro

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Everyone’s seen it, but in case you haven’t here it is:

Now that you’ve seen that, check out the new items for the pyro!

Yes, between now and July 5th you can get a nice pair of goggles for free in TF2. I have tested them out and sure enough… Everything looks really psychotic! If this wasn’t enough for you, then perhaps maybe sign up at Adult Swim for a free robot chicken hat?

Also, the mystery items have been turned to dust and can now be crafted into a big pile of ash! The ash can then be used to make either crates or weapons. No word on what they’re worth yet though. Still, it’s been so busy that even authentication seems to be failing for getting onto certain servers or even getting in touch with the item server itself! I don’t think Valve expected this much attention. But they should have because it’s freakin’ TF2!!!!!111111

As an aside, Valve is also releasing Source Filmmaker now as a beta. Perhaps the next season of You Can’t Do That On XBox might have some interesting visuals. 😉

Day 2 of PYROMANIA!!!!!

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Well, today is day 2.

Downtown Teufort: The mighty Manhattan of the Badlands. The Big Gravel. The City That Never Seeps (the slogan of our campaign to let people know we’d started getting a handle on our world-famous sewage problem). Whatever you want to call them, these streets are filled to bursting with opportunity (and, depending on the weather, up to knee-height with sewage).

Maybe you read that article in Tourism Monthly (“Teufort: It is Horrible”) and you’re worried about murder, thievery and tramp attacks. Don’t be! Thanks to our lack of a fire department, they’ve got bigger things to worry about than you: Putting out all those methane fires.

So now we have possibly another map to look forward to, plus more hats and weapons! Also on that page is a picture from the upcoming “Meet The Pyro” short!

PYROMANIA!!!!!

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Well folks, if you haven’t been paying attention to TF2 and getting in on the special/not so special item drops you’ve really been missing out! Valve has declared this week to be Pyromania week! According to the official TF2 Blog the final short “Meet The Pyro” is less than three days away! Along with the update they seem to be introducing a new game mode for Team Fortress 2, called Doomsday?

Doomsday pits BLU against RED, with only one team getting the honor of transporting a suitcase nuke full of recalled Mann Co. Australium to American monkeynaut Poopy Joe’s rocket, so he can blast off and hunt down Soviet space chimp Vladimir Bananas. It’s the same spirit of competitive enterprise that stalled the moon landing by three years when Buzz Aldrin suplexed Neil Armstrong into a pile of folding chairs at Astromania ’69! Both teams will attempt to get the necessary fuel up a preposterously slow-moving elevator and into Poopy Joe’s Australium-powered rocket to the stars.

Also, with a new game mode comes new achievements! Let the achievement whoring begin! In the meantime, here’s a countdown clock.