Qpingu of the TF2 community - "taking days of tedious work" - packed them up into a sheet you can download at seven different resolutions. He threw the links up yesterday. The icon pack covers all achievements through the Sniper vs. Spy update, and he promises future versions to incorporate additional TF2 updates.

You can slap this down as a desktop pic, but I'm already thinking about spending a day with a jailbroken iPhone bringing these in as a custom theme. I'm sure you guys can think of other uses too. Or, like I said, it's not about the doing, it's about the having.

The Complete Achievement Icon Wallpaper Pack [Steam Users' Forums]

Just to get everyone on the same sexy page, here's what we know about the game so far so far: Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is Techland's prequel to 2006's Western shooter, Call of Juarez. Bound in Blood focuses more on the gunslinging part than its predecessor and features a cool duel mechanic that simulates the Western quick-draw cliche. Players choose at the beginning of each level whether to play Ray or Thomas McCall — one brother's burly, the other ranged — and progress through a tale of blood, betrayal and presumably redemption because that's the title of the last trailer.

Be sure to check it out so you're not completely caught off-guard by the awesome when those embargoes expire. You can read our GDC 2009 impressions here to study up.

Grab the full-sized version right here.

I've had the same picture of the Pyramid Peaks in Colorado on my desktop since 2003. If your background's getting a little stale, too, certainly one of these will do the trick.

Lifehacker two weeks ago also posted some killer retro-gaming wallpapers (God, how I want the one with Asshole Dog snickering at me) but the flood of traffic killed Desktop Gaming's bandwidth. So keep an eye on that URL when it comes back up, it may have some good stuff. Just, you know, go there quietly, and in an orderly fashion.

We can't post them at full resolution, so following are previews with links to the full size versions (which is on deviantART, so there shouldn't be a bandwidth problem). Enjoy.

Orioto's Video Game Remake Desktops [deviantART via Lifehacker, thanks Jimmy]

It's not all bad news (or good news, assuming you would rather play a game without the possibility of cheating) as Lionhead's community blog has a page full of tips designed to maximize your Pub Games earning potential while staying within the rules. Their advice? "If you are wondering about a 'much talked about' exploit, just ignore it (and know that a patch is on the way)."

But as Lionhead taketh with one hand, they giveth with the other - a rather natty set of Fable II wallpapers has turned up on the official Fable II site and an update to the Fable backstory Tales Of Albion entitled The fall of the Heroes” is now live (requires Microsoft Silverlight to play).

Fable II Pub Games News Flash, Tips and Tricks! [Lionhead Community Blogs]

Fable II Wallpaper [Lionhead]

Tales of Albion [Lionhead]

K109 The Studio

WKTT

Happy Holidays! [Killzone.com - Thanks Sebastian!]

Pac-Man Wallpaper [PokedStudio]
[Thanks, John]

Over at smart guy visual theory blog Think in Pictures, jeremiah McNichols has mashed together two of his seemingly discordant mutual interests — atrocious 70's wall paper and retro video game screenshots — with some absolutely beautiful results.

I'm particularly fond of this Pitfall screenshot, where the jungle foliage is the exact decomposed hummus wallpaper that was peeling off my grandmother's kitchen wall as a boy. Florian Eckhardt

Fan Fiction: I've Been Wrong Before [Thinking in Pictures] (via Boing Boing)

I'm just going to shut up and let Torokun's awesome Samus Aran artwork speak for itself. Aww, who am I kidding? I love to hear myself talk and love to read what I write. I'm just that egocentric! After reading about my penchant for the Metroid heroine's delicious space booty and somehow avoiding total disgust, he passed on a link to his deviantart gallery with the above, white-hot fanart.

Poking around the gallery led to me to more awesome video game inspired pieces by James, including this other shot of the blonde bounty hunter and this fantastic Katamari/Evangelion mecha mash-up. I'll be keeping my eye on future pieces from the artist.

A larger, wallpaper appropriate version of the intro pic is available here for your downloading and ogling pleasure.

Thanks for the heads up, James. And keep up the good work. Michael McWhertor

Torokun's deviantart page